Section: Africa&ME
Russia says US actions threaten its national security
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday he had detected increasing US hostility towards Moscow and complained about what he said was a series of aggressive US steps that threatened Russia’s national security. In an interview with Russian state TV likely to worsen already poor relations with Washington, Lavrov made it clear he...
Were rabbi’s assailants anti-Semites – or thieves?
Chief Rabbi of Ukraine tells Arutz Sheva that motive for brutal attack might not be anti-Semitism. …read more Source: Arutz...
Russia says U.S. actions threaten its national security
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday he had detected increasing U.S. hostility towards Moscow and complained about what he said was a series of aggressive U.S. steps that threatened Russia’s national security. In an interview with Russian state TV likely to worsen already poor relations with Washington, Lavrov made it clear...
Washington, Moscow nearing ultimate conflict: Pundit
The conflicts in Syria and Ukraine are pushing the US and Russia towards a full-fledged conflict, a political commentator says. …read more Source:...
East-West tensions ‘more dangerous’ than Cold War: Germany
The mounting tensions between the United States and Russia have created a situation that is “more dangerous” than the Cold War, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in an interview published Saturday. Relations between the two have nosedived since a ceasefire they agreed to in September fell apart in less than a week,...
Synagogue in Zhitomir, Ukraine, reopens for the holidays
The building is the only remaining synagogue of the 54 that were there before the holocaust. …read more Source: Arutz...
Rabbi airlifted to Israel after assault in Ukraine
Rabbi Mendel Deitsch, a longtime Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in France and more recently in Israel, was assaulted at the city’s central train station early Friday morning. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Chabad rabbi beaten in Ukraine
Chabad emissary Rabbi Mendel Deitsch was brutally attacked at Zhitomir’s central station. Public is asked to pray for his recovery. …read more Source: Arutz...
Russia ‘deploying’ N-capable missiles at Nato doorstep
VILNIUS: Russia is again deploying nuclear-capable Iskander missiles into its Kaliningrad outpost bordering two Nato members, Lithuania said on Saturday, warning the move was aimed at pressuring the West into making concessions over Syria and Ukraine. “Russia is holding military exercises in Kaliningrad, and its scenario includes deployment of...
Poland blames Airbus for grounding chopper talks
Poland on Saturday blamed French aeronautics giant Airbus for the breakdown in talks over a multi-billion euro contract for military helicopters that has triggered a spike in tensions with Paris. “I want to make it perfectly clear that it wasn’t the Polish side who broke off the talks,” Polish Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz told...
