Section: Africa&ME
Trump steps into Putin’s Syrian backyard
Last week’s chemical attack on the rebel-held Syrian city of Khan Sheikhoun compelled US President Donald Trump to strike for the first time at Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.With the bombing of an air base in western Syria, the Trump administration stepped into a gaping power vacuum in the Middle East.But what, if...
Kremlin furious at Eurovision dropping Russia over Ukraine spat
Kiev, as winner of last year’s contest, refuses to host Russian contestant because she previously performed in Russian-annexed Crimea …read more Source: The Times of...
WLADIMIR: KUSIPOTOKEA MSIBA KWA AJ BASI ATALAZWA MAHUTUTI
LONDON, England BONDIA Wladimir Klitschko amezungumzia pambano lake dhidi ya Anthony Joshua ‘AJ’ na kumpiga mkwara kwamba kwao kutatokea msiba ama atalazwa hospitali kwa kipigo atakachomtembezea. Bingwa wa mkanda wa IBF, AJ atazipiga na Klitschko, Aprili 29, mwaka huu, ambapo pamoja na mkanda huo, mkanda mwingine utakaogombewa na mabondia...
Russia to boycott Eurovision song contest due to Ukraine row
Russia’s state broadcaster has said it will boycott this year’s Eurovision song contest after the host country, Ukraine, said it would bar entry to the Russian contestant and Moscow rejected two possible compromises suggested by the organizers …read more Source: The Daily...
Eurovision: Russian TV drops singing contest over Ukraine singer ban
Kiev has slapped an entry ban on Russia's entrant Yulia Samoilova for performing a concert on the Crimea peninsula in 2015. Russia’s main state television channel said Thursday it was dropping the Eurovision Song Contest from its schedules after Ukraine banned its performer from entering the country to take part.”Channel One...
Russia to boycott Eurovision song contest due to Ukraine row
…read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Russian Jews leave Israel
Many of the Russian-Jews, who arrived to the Jewish State in the early 1990s, left Israel in recent years, heading back to their home country, or seeking new pastures, Israel’s Haaretz reported yesterday. Liza Rozovsky, a Russian-Jewish who came to Israel as part of the main migration wave, has conducted several interviews with Russians in...
Ukraine marks three years of separatist war
Kiev: A bloodied Ukraine marks three years on Thursday since it launched a campaign against Russian-backed eastern separatists that now looks like an interminable conflict whose terms are dictated by the Kremlin. More than 10,000 people have died in Europe’s only war zone in that time – a figure unimaginable when Kiev was riding the...
Hopes fade for those trapped in Ukraine war
After three years of war, Irina and her husband Arkady have all but lost hope of ever seeing the day the big guns fall silent and Ukraine becomes whole again. The middle-aged couple live in the shelled-out northern outskirts of the Russian-backed separatist rebels’ de-facto capital city of Donetsk in the eastern industrial heartland of the...
Politics: ‘A rhetorical device:’ State Department explains Rex Tillerson’s controversial Ukraine comments
The comment signaled to some, including Ayrault, that Tillerson did not think the US should concern itself with the ongoing war in Ukraine and Russian aggression there. Ayrault said he told Tillerson that “it is in the interests of the US taxpayers to have a Europe that is secure and is strong politically and economically. … You...
