Section: Africa&ME
Ukraine warns Russia of missile tests near Crimea
Ukraine ratcheted up tensions with Moscow Wednesday by warning the Kremlin its army intended to hold two days of missile-launching exercises near the border with Russian-annexed Crimea. …read more Source: The Daily...
Talks on Ukraine produce no visible results
A meeting of foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany intended to shore up a shaky peace process in eastern Ukraine ended Nov. 29 without any visible progress. …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Russian forces in Crimea put on alert before Ukrainian missile tests: TASS
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian air defense forces in Crimea have been placed on high alert on the eve of planned Ukrainian missile tests near the Black Sea peninsula, the TASS news agency cited a Crimean military source as saying on Wednesday. The post Russian forces in Crimea put on alert before Ukrainian missile tests: TASS appeared first on LIBYA...
Ukraine warns Russia of rocket tests near Crimea
The tests would begin on Thursday and almost certainly further damage relations between two former Soviet neighbours that treat each other as open foes. …read more Source: World...
506,200 tourists visited Egypt in October: CAPMAS
The number of tourist arrivals from all countries reached 506,200 in October, compared to 909,400 tourists during the same month in 2015, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). CAPMAS stated in its monthly bulletin this week that most tourists came from Western Europe in October, comprising 36% of...
EU court upholds sanctions on Putin’s businessman friend over Crimea
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – An EU court on Wednesday upheld sanctions imposed on Arkady Rotenberg, a close ally and former judo partner of Russian President Vladimir Putin whose company won a contract to build a bridge linking the Russian mainland with annexed Crimea. The post EU court upholds sanctions on Putin’s businessman friend over Crimea...
No breakthrough reached at Minsk talks on Ukraine: Lavrov
Lavrov says FMs of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany have failed to agree a roadmap on how to implement the Minsk peace deal in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Nuclear cover up: Chernobyl’s giant dome
The new metal dome encasing Ukraine’s infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant contains enough metal to build three Eiffel Towers with a few thousand tons to spare. …read more Source:...
Giant arch slides over Chernobyl site
In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world’s largest land-based moving structure has been slid over the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site to prevent deadly radiation spewing from the stricken reactor for the next 100 years.On April 26, 1986, a botched test at the Soviet nuclear plant sent clouds of smouldering...
HIV toll tops 1mn in Russia … and climbing
WRussia’s HIV infection rate is growing 10 % a year and more than 1mn Russians have been diagnosed with the disease in nearly three decades, the country’s top Aids expert said yesterday.The number of registered cases reached 1,087,339 on September 30, Vadim Pokrovsky, head of the national state Aids centre, said at a news...
