Section: Daily News & Analysis (India)
Russia blocks U.N. condemnation of Srebrenica as a genocide
Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that would have condemned the Srebrenica massacre as a genocide to mark the 20th anniversary of the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys. China, Nigeria, Angola and Venezuela abstained and the remaining 10 council members voted in favor. The vote was delayed a day as Britain...
BRICS summit gives Putin a chance to show Russia not isolated
The BRICS emerging economies will launch a development bank at a summit this week which President Vladimir Putin hopes will help reduce Western dominance of world financial institutions and show Moscow is not isolated. At a meeting in the remote Russian city of Ufa, originally a fortress built on the orders of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, Brazil,...
China starts work on 3,968-km long gas pipeline with Russia
China has started construction of the 3,968-km long gas pipeline to pump 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russia’s far east to Shanghai as it firmed up energy cooperation with Moscow, which is reeling under US and EU sanctions over Ukraine crisis. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev joined Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli in a...
Cautious Merkel of Germany on verge of biggest risk with “Grexit”
“If you break it, you own it,” former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell warned President George W. Bush before his invasion of Iraq. Whether it will ever be fair to blame Angela Merkel for “breaking” Greece is debatable. But if the euro zone’s weakest link does default this week and is eventually forced out of the...
Turkish police use water cannon to disperse gay pride parade
Turkish police fired water cannon and rubber pellets to disperse a crowd gathered in central Istanbul on Sunday for the city’s annual gay pride parade. It was not immediately clear why the police stopped the marchers gathering. The parade has been held in Istanbul in previous years, leading some to dub it the largest gay pride event in the...
US to spread military equipment in 7 European countries to counter Russia
Defence Secretary Ash Carter on Tuesday announced that the US will spread about 250 tanks, armored vehicles and other military equipment across seven European nations to help reassure NATO allies facing an array of threats from Russia and terrorist groups. Each set of equipment would be enough to equip a military company or battalion, and would...
Stan Wawrinka knocked out at Queen’s tournament
French Open champion Stan Wawrinka joins the list of the tennis stars to be knocked out of the Queen’s Club tournament as Kevin Anderson defeated him in the second round of the Aegon Championships. The second seed player struggled against Anderson’s stunning tennis display, crashing to a 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (13-11) defeat, the BBC reported....
More than 60 million people displaced last year; half of them children: UN Refugee agency
Almost 60 million people worldwide were forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution at the end of last year, the highest ever recorded number, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday. More than half the displaced from crises including Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia were children, UNHCR said in its annual Global Trends Report. In 2014, an average...
Latvia says Russia tension worst since Cuban missile crisis
Russia’s nuclear “sabre-rattling” and refusal to abide by the terms of a ceasefire in Ukraine have dragged East-West relations to their lowest level since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said on Thursday. This week Russia announced it was adding 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles...
Putin to meet Saudi prince amid Syria tensions: Aide
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Saudi Arabia’s defence minister this week in a meeting aimed at boosting bilateral ties after years of tensions over Syria, his aide said today. Putin will meet Prince Mohammed bin Salman, believed to be a favoured son of King Salman, on Thursday on the sidelines of the Saint Petersburg...
