Section: The Indian Express (India)
Ukraine government closes its airspace to Russia
Ukraine banned all Russian airlines from flying into Ukraine. (Source: Reuters) Ukraine’s prime minister says his government has decided to close the country’s airspace to all Russian planes. Ukraine last month banned all Russian airlines from flying into Ukraine but Russian planes have been allowed to fly over its territory. The...
US President Obama says Vladimir Putin a ‘constructive partner’ in Syria talks
US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin. US President Barack Obama on Wednesday praised Russia’s role in talks to end the Syria crisis and offered the prospect of better ties if Moscow focused military strikes on the Islamic State group. Obama said Russia had been a “constructive partner in Vienna in trying to create...
Russian ex-cop sentenced to prison for ‘spying for CIA’
Russia has sentenced a former policeman to 13 years in prison on high treason charges, accusing him of spying for the CIA, the security service said on Thursday. The Moscow District Court today convicted a former employee of the interior ministry’s Moscow region branch, Yevgeny Chistov, of high treason and sentenced him to 13 years in a...
Kremlin: Russian ban on flights to Egypt will last months
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Moscow’s ban on all flights to Egypt in the wake of a Russian plane crash will last for at least several months, the Kremlin chief of staff said Tuesday, dealing a severe blow to Egypt’s struggling tourism industry. President Vladimir Putin’s chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov, said on a visit to...
Russia to deploy new weapons to counter US missile shield
Putin argued Tuesday that the US has kept working on the missile shield despite Iran’s deal with six world powers. (Source: AP photo) Russia will counter NATO’s U.S.-led missile defense program by deploying new strike weapons capable of piercing the shield, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. Putin told defense officials that by...
Nations across Asia-Pacific watching China’s maritime actions: Ashton Carter
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter who led a delegation to India raised the issue during his recent visit. Stating that nations across the Asia-Pacific are watching China’s actions in areas like the maritime domain and cyberspace, Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has said that the US is working with its allies to ensure the peace and...
Afghanistan to buy military helicopters from India, move likely to anger Pakistan
Afghan president Ashraf Ghani Afghanistan is poised to acquire four attack helicopters from India to help it fight a growing Taliban insurgency, a small but significant deal marking a shift in Kabul’s search for allies that is likely to anger Pakistan. Soon after he took over, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani held off military assistance from...
NATO chief sounds alarm over Russian buildup in Baltic, Mediterranean
British Royal Marines and Portuguese fuzileiros, exit amphibious boats during the NATO Trident Juncture exercise 2015 in Troia, south of Lisbon, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015. NATO Allies and partner nations join forces during three weeks for the Alliance’s Trident Juncture live military exercise involving 36,000 troops from more than 30 nations...
Egypt: Official says doomed Russian plane was in good shape
In this photo released by the Prime Minister’s office, Sherif Ismail, right, looks at the remains of a crashed passenger jet in Hassana, Egypt. (Source: AP photo) An Egyptian ground service official who carried out a pre-flight inspection of the Russian passenger plane that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula said Sunday that the Airbus A321-200...
Officials search for cause of Russian plane crash over Egypt’s Sinai
A relative of those on the Metrojet flight that crashed in Egypt react as they gather to grieve at a hotel near St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport outside St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015. (Source: AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) A Russian passenger airliner crashed Saturday in a remote mountainous part of Egypt’s Sinai...
