Section: Africa&ME
eNCA | Russia demands loyalty or silence, say Crimea’s hounded Tatars
Crimea’s Muslim Tatars number some 300,000, around 14 percent of the peninsula’s population but estimates suggest up to 40,000 have left since Russia’s annexation. …read more Source:...
More US Spy Planes Spotted Flying over Russian Bases in Black, Mediterranean Seas
TEHRAN (FNA)- A US spy plane was spotted again flying off the coasts of Syria near the Russian base in Tartus while another one was picked up by radars as it was conducting reconnaissance operations over the Russian fleet near Crimea in the black sea, western websites said. …read more Source: Fars News...
Dutch summon Russian ambassador over MH17 comments
The Hague – Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders has summoned Russia’s ambassador over “unacceptable” comments by Moscow criticising a report into the downing of flight MH17, officials said on Friday., “Responding to the presentation of the initial findings… spokespersons for the Kremlin and the Russian foreign...
Russia demands loyalty or silence, say Crimea’s hounded Tatars
The deputy head of the Mejlis — the Crimean Tatars’ elected assembly — was on September 7 released from three weeks’ involuntary detention in a psychiatric hospital in Simferopol, on the Black Sea. …read more Source: World...
Plonk or pinot? Try these wine apps
Elin McCoy samples the latest wine apps for smartphone users and uncorks the good, the bad and the ugly. ||| New York – The new mobile app Wine Ring sounds great: With the help of secret, patented algorithms, it can predict whether or not I’ll like a wine before I buy it. It’s the latest in a series of apps that all swear...
Australia: MH17 missile suspects might be confirmed by year-end
The findings counter Moscow’s suggestion that the flight was brought down by Ukraine’s military rather than the separatists …read more Source: Al...
Russia fighting in Syria for a year, still at odds with US
WASHINGTON — A year after Russia waded into the war in Syria, aiming to flex its national security muscles and prop up beleaguered Syrian President Bashar Assad, Moscow appears no closer to one of its military goals: getting the US to cooperate in the skies or on the ground in the civil war, and prospects for a diplomatic resolution seem dim. The...
Campaigns in Syria, Ukraine bolster Russian military image
And it’s boom time for businesses that specialise in military-themed goods and clothing. …read more Source: Daily...
Leaked UN report criticizes US and European roles in escalating crisis in Syria, aggravating the suffering of Syrians
Damascus, SANA – The Intercept website published a leaked UN report which reveals that the US and European sanctions are punishing Syrians and crippling aid work in Syria. The site said that the sanctions and the crisis in Syria have destabilized every sector of Syrian economy, transforming a once self-sufficient country into an aid-dependent...
Ukraine govt, pro-Russia forces report partial weapons withdrawal
The warring sides in eastern Ukraine have pulled back heavy weapons in one of the three agreed locations on the front line. …read more Source: Iran...
