Section: Africa&ME
CrediMax, Mastercard Launch UEFA Champions League Campaign
CrediMax has announced the launch of its UEFA Champions League 2018 campaign in collaboration with Mastercard, the official sponsor of the UEFA Champions League since 1994. As part of the promotional campaign, CrediMax Mastercard customers can win a chance to attend the UEFA Champions League 2018 Final match at Kiev – Ukraine. …read more...
Kayode Olanrewaju: Nigerian forward scores on debut for Shakhtar Donetsk
Kayode Olanrewaju is on loan at Shakhtar Donetsk from Manchester City. Nigerian forward Kayode Olanrewaju scored on his debut for Shakhtar Donetsk in a 3-0 league victory against Zorya on Sunday, April 1.Kayode was loaned out by English Premier League side Manchester City to Ukranian outfit Shakhtar Donetsk until the end of the 2017/18 football...
Expelled Russians arrive home as Moscow warns against travel to UK
Moscow – Russian diplomats expelled from the United States arrived in Moscow on Sunday, with post-Cold War tensions peaking in the wake of a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain. A deepening crisis in ties between Russia and the West has over the past weeks seen the biggest wave of tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions in recent...
German minister wants to rebuild trust with Russia after spy standoff
BERLIN – German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas wants to resume dialogue with Russia and gradually improve ties after diplomatic expulsions over a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in England that Britain blames on Russia, he said on Sunday., Conservative German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Maas have joined the United States and other...
World: Feared Russian bike gang comes to Bosnia. Bosnia shrugs
The Night Wolves, a Russian motorcycle gang known as “Putin’s Angels” and widely feared as agents of meddling and mayhem beyond Russia’s borders, provoked more bemusement and giggles than awe on their latest outing. Instead of roaring into town amid throbbing engines and clouds of smoke, the tattooed, potbellied bikers arrived by car...
Aviva storms into risky frontier debt as US and China trade jitters ease
A few weeks ago, Aviva’s emerging-market debt funds were cutting back on risk amid rumblings of a global tariff war. Today? They’re wading into some of the world’s most speculative investments: frontier market bonds.The change of heart comes amid signs of easing trade tensions between the US and China, as the two countries...
Politics: There’s a huge caveat in the US’ expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats
Russia can send new diplomats to replace the ones who have been kicked out. The US’ expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats in response to a chemical attack on a former Russian spy in the UK, announced earlier this week, has a huge loophole. A State Department official confirmed that the US will not require Russia to reduce the number of staff in...
Russia says Britain must cut over 50 diplomats as spy crisis deepens
Russia said on Saturday that Britain had to reduce its diplomatic staff by more than 50 more people as a crisis in ties between Moscow and the West escalated over the nerve agent attack on a former spy. The new measures came after 23 British diplomats left Russia earlier this month and are seen as Moscow’s punishment after Britain’s...
Russia Tells UK, It Must Send Home ‘Just Over 50’ of Its Diplomats: Zakharova
The Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Saturday, the UK was notified that it should send home “just over 50” of its diplomats. “We asked for parity. The Brits have 50 diplomats more than the Russians,” said Zakharova. Over the past few days, more than 25 countries, including numerous EU member states, the United...
Russia Tells UK, It Must Send Home ‘Just Over 50’ of Its Diplomats – Zakharova
“We asked for parity. The Brits have 50 diplomats more than the Russians,” said Zakharova. Over the past few days, more than 25 countries, including numerous EU member states, the United States, Canada, Albania, Norway and Ukraine, have announced their decisions to collectively expel over 150 Russian diplomats as a sign of solidarity with London...
