Section: Africa&ME
Barshim leads world class field on home turf
Team Qatar’s 2017 World Champion, Diamond League Champion and World Athlete of the Year, Mutaz Barshim will be the headline name at this year’s Doha Diamond League as he once again kicks off his 2018 outdoor season in front of a home-crowd. Qatar’s best-ever athlete will ensure a phenomenal atmosphere inside Qatar Sports Club as...
eNCA | Ukraine rejects Russian gas transit offer
Ukraine has bitterly opposed the project because it fears it will undermine its traditional role as the main transit country for Russian gas exports to Europe. …read more Source:...
Heroic Roma restore Italian pride after World Cup despair
Italy has spent five months grieving over the failure of the national team to take their customary place at the World Cup, but Roma have restored some pride with a heroic victory over Barcelona in the Champions League.The Azzurri, four-time world champions, are not going to Russia, but after Roma won 3-0, to over-turn a 4-1 quarter-final deficit...
Clock is ticking but Klopp keeps dreams in check
Jurgen Klopp admits the clock is ticking on his target of winning a trophy within the first four years of his Liverpool tenure but after eliminating Manchester City he says he dare not dream that it will be the Champions League.The 50-year-old German refuses to contemplate a sixth European crown for the historic club even after they beat the...
News24.com | Fighting fake news on the front line
Olga Yurkova, a Ukrainian journalist, has spent years fighting fake news on the front line. …read more Source:...
Ukraine rejects Russian gas transit offer
Ukraine on Wednesday rejected a natural gas transit proposal by Russian energy giant Gazprom as an unacceptable and unprofitable proposition for Kiev. Gazprom on Tuesday had said it could continue pumping reduced volumes of gas to western and central Europe through an existing Ukrainian trunk pipeline. The suggestion came after German Chancellor...
Ukraine Rejects Russian Gas Transit Offer
Ukraine’s President, Petro Poroshenko speaks during a joint press conference with German Chancellor after talks about fragile truce on April 10, 2018 in Berlin. Credit: Odd ANDERSEN / AFP Ukraine on Wednesday rejected a natural gas transit proposal by Russian energy giant Gazprom as an unacceptable and unprofitable proposition for Kiev....
Missiles ‘will be coming’ to Syria, Trump warns Russia
WASHINGTON/BEIRUT – U.S. President Donald Trump warned Russia on Wednesday of imminent military action in Syria over a suspected poison gas attack, declaring that missiles “will be coming” and lambasting Moscow for standing by Syrian President Bashar Assad. Trump was responding to a Russian warning on Tuesday that any U.S. missiles fired at...
Finance: The ruble is on track for its worst week since 1999 as Trump tells Russia: ‘Get ready’
The currency has fallen 12% against the dollar over the last 7 days. LONDON — The Russian ruble is down 2.8% against the dollar on Wednesday after President Donald Trump ramped up his anti-Russian rhetoric on Twitter. The ruble was already down 1.7% in early European trading, but took a leg lower after Trump warned Russia to “Get...
Fighting fake news on the front line
The Ukrainian journalist and colleagues weighed into the battle with a StopFake.org website after Russian soldiers entered Crimea under cover and their country appeared to become a testing lab for using bogus stories to manipulate public opinion. …read more Source:...
