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US spy chief: US and Russia could spiral into new Cold War
WASHINGTON: Russia is “paranoid” about being challenged by NATO and its efforts to rival American power could push it into a new Cold War, the head of US intelligence said Tuesday. “They’re greatly concerned about being contained,” the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, told the Senate Armed Services Committee. Clapper said...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko sees increased risk of open war with Russia
BERLIN: The risk of open war between Russia and Ukraine is greater than it was a year ago and Russian President Vladimir Putin has begun an “information war” against Germany, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told the German newspaper Bild. Poroshenko, who met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Monday, said Russia had implemented...
NATO looks to combat Russia’s ‘information weapon’: document
BRUSSELS: NATO may combat Kremlin “weaponisation of information” used to support action such as the 2014 seizure of Crimea by creating a new more powerful communications section and declassifying more sensitive material, according to draft plans. Both NATO and the European Union are concerned by Russia’s ability to use television and the...
US Treasury offical: Putin is ‘picture of corruption’
LONDON: An official of the United States government has directly accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of corruption, in a BBC programme that airs Monday. The US government imposed sanctions against a number of Kremlin insiders in 2014 after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in Ukraine, but did not accuse Putin of direct involvement in...
Kerry says effort and good faith could lead to Russian sanctions lifting
DAVOS: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday he believed that with effort and good faith on both sides it would be possible to implement the Minsk agreements on Ukraine in coming months to allow for a lifting of sanctions on Russia. Kerry said in a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos that he and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden...
UK inquiry: Putin ‘probably approved’ Litvinenko killing
LONDON: Russian President Vladimir Putin “probably approved” the killing of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko in London, a British inquiry into his agonising death by radiation poisoning found Thursday. Litvinenko, a prominent Kremlin critic, died three weeks after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium at an upmarket London hotel in 2006. Two...
Czech leader says Muslim integration ‘practically impossible’ in Europe
PRAGUE: Czech President Milos Zeman, known for his fiery anti-migrant rhetoric, said on Sunday it was “practically impossible” to integrate the Muslim community into European society. “The experience of Western European countries which have ghettos and excluded localities shows that the integration of the Muslim community is practically...
Dutch minister apologises to ‘fired’ MH17 expert
THE HAGUE: Dutch Justice Minister Ard van der Steur on Thursday apologised to a pathologist who was fired for showing medical students photos of the victims from the MH17 air disaster, his spokesman said. “They have talked and the minister said he was sorry,” Lodewijk Herkking, the minister’s spokesman, told AFP, adding professor George...
MH17 relatives demand release of radar images
THE HAGUE: Relatives of those killed in the MH17 air disaster Wednesday urged Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to launch a global campaign to obtain radar images which may help pinpoint who fired a missile at the plane. All 298 passengers and crew onboard the Malaysia Airlines flight jetliner — most of them Dutch — died when it was shot down en...
Bild: Putin says he wants global cooperation against terrorism
MOSCOW: Russia wants to fight terrorism jointly with the rest of the world, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Monday, while again accusing the West of exacerbating international crises that had contributed to it. “We are faced with common threats, and we still want all countries, both in Europe and the whole world, to...
