Section: Africa&ME
IKCO to offer Dena models in Ukraine through Azerbaijan operations
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International skiers take to the slopes of Pakistan
Skiers descend in long, rhythmic swoops down pristine white slopes in northern Pakistan, braking in a spray of snow as soldiers carrying semi-automatic weapons watch impassively. Dozens of athletes took part at a rare international competition in the South Asian country, which boasts some of the world’s highest mountains but remains...
Hundreds flee US-backed Syria battle for last IS holdout
Exhausted families trudged out of the Islamic State group’s last bastion in eastern Syria yesterday, as Kurdish-led forces boxed holdout militants into an ever-shrinking pocket. Hundreds fled at night but hundreds more during the day as plumes of grey smoke billowed into the sky over Baghouz, where diehard IS fighters are making their last...
Pompeo warns allies Huawei presence complicates partnership with US
* US concerned over Russia, China engagement * Pompeo visits Hungary, Slovakia and Poland * Will attend Middle East conference in Warsaw US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cautioned allies on Monday against deploying equipment from Chinese telecoms giant Huawei on their soil, saying it would make it more difficult for Washington to “partner...
‘Fake news’ on Stalin’s famine still festers
Berlin: Polish director Agnieszka Holland premiered a film Sunday about the cover-up of Stalin’s mass famine in Ukraine with the complicity of the West, arguing this early example of “fake news” was still toxic today. Holland’s “Mr Jones”, in competition at the Berlin film festival, stars James Norton as crusading Welsh journalist...
No excuses as VAR set for Champions League debut
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has warned that there will be no more excuses as Video Assistant Referees (VAR) make their debut in the Champions League starting this week. Manchester United host Paris Saint-Germain at Old Trafford on Tuesday while Roma play Porto at the Stadio Olimpico as the last 16, first legs get under way. The system which...
Why the world now feels more threatened by US than by China, Russia
Washington – If 2017 was the year foreign observers of US politics struggled to decide where the country was headed, 2018 was the year they came to a conclusion: not in the right direction. Far more people around the world now believe that their countries are threatened by US power and influence under President Donald Trump than they are by...
Can Petro Poroshenko win Ukraine’s presidential race?
Ukraine’s incumbent is lagging behind in polls, but he still has time to manipulate political events to his advantage. …read more Source: AL...
Halep faces tricky path to second Qatar Total Open title
World No. 3 Simona Halep was handed a tricky draw as she chases her second title in the Qatar Total Open which gets underway at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex tomorrow. The 27-year-old Romanian is already a 12-year veteran on the highly competitive WTA circuit, boasting 18 titles and nearly 30 million dollars in prize money...
News24.com | Five killed in eastern Ukraine amid fragile ceasefire
The death toll in the last 24 hours was the highest since the latest fragile truce entered force in December. …read more Source:...
