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EU tackles tank transport troubles in face of Russia threat
BRUSSELS: EU to make it easier to move troops, tanks in face of Russia threat The EU will on Wednesday present detailed plans to make it easier to move troops and equipment around the bloc as Europe seeks to boost its defences in the face of the growing threat from Russia. Officials want to create a “military Schengen zone” similar to...
We must avoid new Cold War, says German govt’s Russia expert
The flag of the Russian Federation flies at the Russian Embassy in Washington, US, March 27, 2018. (Reuters pic) BERLIN: Germany wants to keep up a dialogue with Moscow despite joining Western expulsions of Russian diplomats and must avoid a new Cold War, the German government’s coordinator for Russia said in a newspaper interview. Gernot...
Britain shared ‘unprecedented’ intelligence over spy attack
A Russian flag flies atop the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Seattle, Washington, US, March 26, 2018. (Reuters pic) LONDON: Britain shared “unprecedented levels” of intelligence about a spy poisoning it blamed on Moscow, which has led at least 25 countries to expel Russian diplomats, a senior UK government official said Tuesday....
Russia trying to divide West with spy poisoning, says Mattis
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis lands in Kabul on March 13, 2018 on an unannounced trip to Afghanistan. (Reuters pic) WASHINGTON: Russia’s poisoning of a former spy in Britain is part of a strategy of conducting operations, and then denying responsibility for them, that is designed to divide the West, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said...
Skripal case has sparked new Cold War: Russian media
MOSCOW: Russian media on Tuesday shared the view that Western countries’ coordinated expulsions of Russian diplomats following the poisoning in Britain of a former spy have plunged Moscow’s relations with the West into a new “Cold War”. Twenty-four countries — including 17 member-states of the European Union — have...
Britain hails ‘turning point’ after Russian spy expulsions
LONDON: Britain Tuesday hailed the mass expulsion of more than 100 suspected Russian spies around the world as a “turning point” for the West’s attitude to a “reckless” Russia, as Moscow warned it would retaliate against “loutish behaviour”. Ireland on Tuesday became the latest country to order out a...
Britain hails ‘turning point’ after Russian spy expulsions
LONDON: Britain Tuesday hailed the mass expulsion of suspected Russian spies around the world as a “turning point” for the West’s attitude to a “reckless” Russia, as Moscow prepared its response. At least 116 alleged agents working under diplomatic cover were ordered out by 22 governments on Monday, dwarfing similar...
Row over vetting Ukraine judges prompts US-backed body to quit
Many judges in Ukraine have partaken in acts of corruption. (Reuters pic) KIEV: A Washington-backed body set up to vet judges in Ukraine as part of the battle against corruption quit its role on Monday, saying the process to screen a judge fit for office was a sham. The row spotlights Ukraine’s troubled efforts to tackle corruption,...
Australia hints at possible World Cup boycott over nerve agent attack
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop speak to the media at Parliament House in Canberra. (Reuters pic) SYDNEY: Australia said on Tuesday it will expel two Russian diplomats in response to a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Britain that the British government has blamed on Moscow and...
High-level talks on Afghanistan to open in Uzbekistan
TASHKENT: Uzbekistan threw open its doors Tuesday for a multilateral meeting on Afghanistan aiming to lay the ground for direct talks between Kabul and the Taliban. Set to appear at the Tuesday meeting following various closed-door talks in the capital Tashkent on Monday were Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and...
