Section: Africa&ME
Death revisits France on Bastille Day
Nice // In its heart of hearts, France had a good idea something like the Nice massacre was bound to happen sooner or later.Atrocities in Madrid, London, Paris, Brussels and elsewhere in Europe in recent years, as well as in Lebanon, Iraq, Mali, Kenya, Bangladesh among so many locations targeted by terrorists, have produced a new state of painful...
Death in France on Bastille Day
Nice // In its heart of hearts, France had a good idea something like the Nice massacre was bound to happen sooner or later.Atrocities in Madrid, London, Paris, Brussels and elsewhere in Europe in recent years, as well as in Lebanon, Iraq, Mali, Kenya, Bangladesh among so many locations targeted by terrorists, have produced a new state of painful...
France’s national day turns into a day of grief as Tunisian rams lorry into crowds
Nice // France begins three days of mourning on Saturday after a gunman drove a 19-tonne lorry into crowds lining the seafront of the Riviera resort of Nice for a Bastille Day fireworks display, killing 84 people and leaving many of more than 200 injured in a critical condition.The suspect, a 31-year-old French-Tunisian, Mohamed...
ASEM summit overshadowed by Nice, Brexit, South China Sea row
The Asia-Europe Meeting has started in Mongolia amidst a terror attack in France, Brexit concerns and South China Sea tensions. German Chancellor Merkel also met with Russia’s Medvedev to discuss the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source:...
Shevchenko appointed as new coach of Ukraine
Former Chelsea player Andriy Shevchenko has been appointed the new Ukraine head coach. It is the 39-year-old’s first steps into full senior management and his first match as head coach will be at… …read more Source:...
Andriy Shevchenko: Former striker named as Ukraine head coach
Fomenko resigned after Ukraine finished bottom of Group C without a point at the European Championship, having failed to score a goal in their three matches in France. Ukraine’s former striker Andriy Shevchenko was appointed national team manager on Friday to replace Mykhailo Fomenko who quit after Euro 2016, the country’s soccer...
Russia to deploy latest air defense systems in Crimea
Russia will deploy its most advanced S-400 air defense systems to the annexed Crimea peninsula in August, a military official said Friday. …read more Source: The Daily...
World unites in horror at Nice carnage, backs France
World leaders united in horror and pledged their determination to fight terrorism on Friday after a truck attack on a Bastille Day crowd in the French Riviera city of Nice killed 84 people. US President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and European and Asian leaders meeting for a summit in Mongolia joined in condemnation of what...
Russia to deploy latest air defence systems in Crimea
The system can track some 300 targets and shoot down around three dozen simultaneously over a range of several hundred kilometres. …read more Source: World...
Russia to Deploy Latest Air Defense Systems in Crimea
Russia will deploy its most advanced S-400 air defense systems to the annexed Crimea peninsula in August, a military official said Friday. …read more Source: Al-Manar...
