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Injured Spain duo Silva and Morata to miss Ukraine game
Spain forwards David Silva and Alvaro Morata have both withdrawn from the squad to face Ukraine on Monday through injury, the federation has said. …read more Source:...
Alexievich wins Nobel Literature Prize
Svetlana Alexievich Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, honoured for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime. The Swedish Academy hailed the 67-year-old ‘for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time’. Alexievich...
Why Merkel should win Nobel Peace Prize
Odds on who’s going to win the Nobel Peace Prize, to be awarded today, are so hard to make that one could easily arbitrage various bookmakers. I’m not a betting man, but I hope the prize goes to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She’s the favourite now with average odds of about 6/1 and she deserves to win. The field is strong....
NATO weighs Russian air strike in Syria
Russia’s growing military involvement in the Syria conflict is expected to be high on the agenda as NATO defence ministers meet in Brussels. It comes after NATO member Turkey complained that Russian jets had repeatedly violated its airspace. Ministers are also expected to review a range of measures introduced in the wake of the Ukraine...
Managing Europe’s perfect storm
The Chinese often point out that in their language, the character for crisis and opportunity are one and the same. But, while it is indeed true that crisis and opportunity often go hand in hand, it is difficult to see much opportunity in Europe’s current circumstances. One reason the current situation facing Europe is so difficult is that...
Bouchard retires from opening match at China Open
Sports Desk A teary-eyed Eugenie Bouchard retired from her opening match against Andrea Petkovic at the China Open due to dizziness on Monday, her first match since falling at the U.S. Open last month and suffering a concussion, reports Yahoo. Bouchard slipped in the locker room after her third-round win against Dominika Cibulkova at the U.S....
World Bank sees Ukraine rebounding
KIEV: The World Bank on Monday said it expected crisis-torn Ukraine’s imploding economy to start recovering later this year and reach 1.0 percent growth in 2016, BSS/AFP reported. The bank maintained its earlier outlook of a 12 percent economic contraction across 2015. It also warned its projections depended on the government’s...
Ukraine starts pull-back of tanks, light artillery in east
Ukraine has started withdrawing tanks and light artillery from the front line in the eastern region of Luhansk in line with an agreement with Russian-backed separatists, Kiev’s military said on Monday. Ukraine and separatist leaders agreed last week to extend a pull-back of weapons in eastern Ukraine, which rebels said could mean an ‘end to...
Obama says Russia’s air strikes ‘strengthen IS’
US president Barack Obama has said the Russian bombing campaign in Syria in support of president Bashar al-Assad is driving moderate opposition underground and ‘only strengthening’ Islamic State. Obama said he rejected the Russian assertion that all armed opponents of the ‘brutal’ Assad were terrorists. Moscow insists its air strikes...
Europe’s reality check
Until a few weeks ago, Europeans believed they lived in a kind of sanctuary, insulated from the world’s current conflicts. Certainly, the news and images of drowned migrants were dreadful; but the tragedy occurring south of Italy, Greece, and Malta seemed a long way off. Syria’s brutal civil war, which has been raging for years,...
