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Fresh fighting kills five in Ukraine
Kiev: The latest spike of fighting between Ukraine’s army and Russian-backed rebels has killed five people, in the heaviest daily toll over the past weeks of the simmering conflict, officials said pm Saturday. The Ukrainian military reported the death of four soldiers in clashes in the area north of the insurgents’ de facto capital of...
Fresh fighting kills five in Ukraine
Kiev: The latest spike of fighting between Ukraine’s army and Russian-backed rebels has killed five people, in the heaviest daily toll over the past weeks of the simmering conflict, officials said pm Saturday. The Ukrainian military reported the death of four soldiers in clashes in the area north of the insurgents’ de facto capital of...
New documents show prosecutors tracking Manafort’s edits
Prosecutors for special counsel Robert Mueller are revealing they know every word Paul Manafort changed in an opinion piece about his involvement in Ukrainian politics. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ex-Georgian president Saakashvili on hunger strike after Ukraine arrest
…read more Source: Al-Manar TV
Ex-Georgian leader, anti-corruption activist Saakashvili detained in Ukraine
Ukraine’s prosecutor-general says opposition figure Mikheil Saakashvili has been arrested. Yuriy Lutzenko made the announcement late Friday on his Facebook page. Saakashvili, the former president of…Click To Continue …read more Source: Daily...
Detained Mikheil Sakaashvili on ‘hunger strike’
Former president of Georgia says he has gone on hunger strike following his re-arrest in Ukraine’s capital. …read more Source: AL...
Former Georgian president goes on hunger strike after Ukraine arrest
The 49-year-old denounced the “false accusations” against him …read more Source: Khaleej...
Bahrain gets 23m malware messages in 90 days
MANAMA: More than 23 million malware messages received by the Bahrain government in Q1 of 2017 alone from Iranian hackers. This was revealed during C5-IISS Workshop on ‘Cyber Security Innovation and the Middle East’ on Friday at the Manama Dialogue: 13th Regional Security Summit. “The Gulf is experiencing disruptive and destructive...
Former Trump adviser interviewed in Congress in Russia probe
WASHINGTON – Walid Phares, a former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump, testified to the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee on Friday in its investigation of possible Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. election. , Phares did not speak to reporters as he entered the committee’s classified meeting room...
Fighting Kills Five In Ukraine’s Separatist East
Supporters of former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili, angered at his detention, clash with police during a rally outside a detention centre in Kiev late on December 8, 2017. Ukrainian police rearrested Saakashvili after a similar attempt to detain the foe of President Petro Poroshenko had failed. Sergei CHUZAVKOV / AFPThe latest spike of...
