Section: Africa&ME
Ukraine state historian says Poland and Israel parrot Russian propaganda
Israel routinely strikes targets in Syria, including those belonging to the government. Israel also strikes targets belonging to Iran, a major trading partner of Russia. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Investigators to identify MH17 suspects – Dutch broadcasters
Investigators will next week announce criminal proceedings against suspects in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 five years ago, allegedly by pro-Russian separatists, two leading Dutch broadcasters reported on Friday. MH17 was shot out of the sky over territory held by separatists in eastern Ukraine as it flew from Amsterdam to the...
Party of Ukraine's President Can Win Parliamentary Majority: Poll
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The new party set up by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who took office last month, could win a majority in a parliamentary election due on July 21, an opinion poll showed on Friday. …read more Source: Tasnim News...
Egypt-Ukraine trade exchange likely to remarkably hike by end of 2019
Egypt’s trade exchange with Ukraine is expected to remarkably hike by end of 2019, Yevhen Mykytenko, the Ukrainian ambassador said, adding, “the trade in goods was $1.65bn in 2018. I was astonished to know that Ukrainian exports to Egypt increased by 26.8% reaching $652m in the first quarter (Q1) of 2019.” The Q1 statistics put Egypt in the...
Destroyed and dispersed
Ironically, the biggest displacement of Jewish life was caused by Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine, purportedly to protect Jews, ethnic Russians and other minorities. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Over 400 detained at Moscow police abuse protest: monitor
Russian authorities yesterday sought to crush a new protest wave, arresting more than 400 people at a Moscow march, a day after police suddenly dropped trumped-up drugs charges against a respected journalist. Among those detained on Russia Day, a public holiday, were opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who faces up to 30 days in jail, teenagers and...
Moldova to move embassy to Jerusalem
Moldova has announced that it will move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a move which would make it the first European country to do so.The announcement comes against the backdrop of a political crisis in Moldova, a small Eastern European country located between Romania and Ukraine.The country has been engaged in a power struggle...
Moldova president scraps parliament’s dissolution
Moldova’s President Igor Dodon yesterday annulled a decree to dissolve parliament, enforcing a standoff between two governments that both insist on their claim to lead the eastern European country.The poor ex-Soviet state, nestled between Romania and Ukraine, has been in political chaos since February when a general election failed to give...
Fire in Ukraine psychiatric clinic kills 6
Six people died in a fire in a municipal psychiatric clinic in the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa that started late on Monday (June 10), according to Ukraine’s emergencies service. …read more Source: Iran...
Fire in Ukraine psychiatric clinic kills 6
Six people die in a fire in a municipal psychiatric clinic in the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa, according to Ukraine’s emergencies service. …read more Source:...
