Section: Africa&ME
Philip Hammond: There may be an opportunity to normalize ties with Iran but we should not blind ourselves to the risks
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond attends a joint news conference with Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides (not pictured) following their meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus, on July 17, 2015. (EPA/KATIA CHRISTODOULOU)London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Since becoming the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary on July 15, 2014, Philip Hammond has had...
EU offers more help for farmers hurt by Russia sanctions
The EU Friday formally extended until next year a multi-million-euro aid package to help European fruit and vegetable growers hit by Russian sanctions over the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: The Daily...
Gunmen attack hotel in central Mali, one dead
At least one person was killed in an attack early on Friday by unidentified gunmen on a hotel in central Mali frequented by United Nations peacekeepers in the West African nation, a witness and a military spokesman said. The raid targeted a hotel on the road to the airport in Sevare, which services the larger town of Mopti. The body of one victim...
OSCE sees no weaponry crossing from Russia into Ukraine
The head of a European monitoring mission confirms that no weaponry or people bearing arms have crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border during nearly a year of observations. …read more Source: Iran...
Russian ‘food crematoria’ sparks anger
Moscow’s plan to destroy banned Western food imports provokes outrage amid soaring poverty rates. ||| Moscow – Russian government plans for mass destruction of banned Western food imports have provoked outrage in a country where poverty rates are soaring and memories remain of famine during Soviet times. Even some Kremlin allies are...
Starving Citizens? Russia Bulldozes Tons of Cheese
‘Insane, stupid and vile’: ban of Western food as part of Crimea tit-for-tat has steamroller crush 9 tons of cheese, bacon incinerated. …read more Source: Arutz...
OSCE sees no weaponry crossing from Russia into Ukraine
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) says no weaponry has crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border during nearly a year of observations. …read more Source:...
‘OSCE saw no military hardware, weaponry crossing from Russia to Ukraine’
No military hardware, weaponry or people bearing arms have crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border during nearly a year of observations, said Paul Picard, the chief of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission deployed at border crossing points in Donetsk and Gukovo. “We have not seen any military equipment...
Donetsk rabbi opens summer camp for Ukrainian war refugees
“In Ukraine the need for these summer respites is most acute. These are Jews in crisis,” grandmother at camp says. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Outrage after Russia steamrolls tonnes of Western food
Move follows Vladimir Putin’s decision to trash all western imports in retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: AL...
