Section: Africa&ME
Conflict biggest threat to business
The risk of international conflict is now the biggest threat facing countries and businesses in the coming decade, trumping concerns about the economy, the World Economic Forum said yesterday. ||| Ben Hirschler LondonThe risk of international conflict was now the biggest threat facing countries and businesses in the coming decade, trumping...
Lithuania distributes ‘war manual’ to fight Russia
The Lithuanian Defense Ministry will send out a war manual on how to deal with a Russian invasion, following the events in Ukraine. …read more Source: World...
EU Parliament Accuses Russia of ‘Acts of Terrorism’ in Ukraine
The European Parliament is accusing Russia of what it calls “acts of terrorism” in Ukraine. Meeting in Brussels, the European Union legislative body passed a resolution condemning what it called Russia’s “aggressive and expansionist policy” and “the acts of terrorism and criminal behavior” by...
Lithuania distributes ‘war manual’ to fight Russia
The Lithuanian Defense Ministry will send out a war manual on how to deal with a Russian invasion, following the events in Ukraine …read more Source: Anadolu...
Police stand by for now as Kremlin critic defies house arrest
By Timothy Heritage Ten days after cutting off his monitoring tag and declaring he would not stay under house arrest, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says Russian police are standing by while he walks out of his door. Although the house arrest order has not been lifted since an embezzlement case against him ended in a suspended sentence on Dec. 30,...
Fighting intensifies at Ukraine airport, two soldiers killed
By Natalia Zinets Fighting intensified around the international airport in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Thursday as pro-Russian separatists stepped up efforts to dislodge government forces and Ukraine’s military said two of its soldiers had been killed. The complex, a battered wreck with its runways cratered by shell explosions, has not...
Parliament calls Russia potential threat to EU
BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) parliament on Thursday condemned Russia as a “potential threat to the European Union itself” even as the EU foreign policy chief sought to resume dialogue with Moscow to help end the conflict in Ukraine. The legislature backed a resolution with a show of hands that called for a continuation of the sanctions...
Ukrainians describe chance survival from rocket attack
KIEV: It was a simple gesture of politeness that saved her: a young man offered Olga Kukunyuk a seat on a bus transporting Ukrainians in search of pension payments in the war-torn east, but she remained standing. “And today he is dead,” Kukunyuk, 31, said at a hospital in Volnovakha, where she was being treated for wounds to her arm and leg,...
Obama, Cameron vow to defend free speech
British Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama said stronger economies were critical to maintaining free speech. ||| London – British Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama on Thursday said stronger economies were critical to maintaining free speech and defeating a “distorted ideology” manifest in...
News24.com | Fierce battle for airport breaks out in Ukraine
Heavy artillery and shelling has rocked Ukraine’s east as the army and pro-Russian rebels waged a fierce battle for a key airport, threatening all-out conflict. …read more Source:...
