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Trump fires top diplomat Tillerson, names CIA chief as successor
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump on Tuesday sacked his top diplomat Rex Tillerson and named current CIA chief Mike Pompeo to succeed him, ending a rocky tenure by the Texas oilman who had frequently been at odds with the mercurial US president. A senior White House official said Trump wanted to reshuffle his team with a view to launching talks with North...
Britain and Russia brace for showdown as deadline expires for nerve attack explanation
Members of the emergency services wearing protective clothing work near the bench where former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found poisoned in Salisbury, Britain, March 13, 2018. (Reuters pic) LONDON: Britain braced for a showdown with Russia on Wednesday after a midnight deadline set by Prime Minister...
RS ‘fear-mongering’ ahead of Bosnia vote raises concern, security minister says
Dragan Mektić is Bosnia’s security minister. (Reuters pic) SARAJEVO: Bosnia’s entity of Republika Srpska is“fear-mongering” to undermine the country’s integrity by organising nationalist paramilitary groups and disproportionately arming the region’s police, the national security minister said. Secessionist pressures in the...
Putin ordered bomb threat plane downed in 2014
MOSCOW: Russia’s Vladimir Putin in 2014 ordered a passenger aircraft which was reported to be carrying a bomb and targeting the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi to be downed, the president said in a film shown on Sunday. In a 2-hour documentary titled ‘Putin’ and available on Russian social media, Putin told reporter...
Putin ordered plane to be downed
MOSCOW: Russia’s Vladimir Putin in 2014 ordered a passenger aircraft which was reported to be carrying a bomb and targeting the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi to be downed, the president said in a film shown on Sunday. In a documentary titled Putin available on Russian social media, Putin told reporter Andrey Kondrashov he...
EU’s Mogherini presses Ukraine on anti-corruption court
The EU’s Federica Mogherini is on a two-day visit to Kiev aimed at reaffirming her bloc’s support for Ukraine. (AFP pic) KIEV: The European Union pressed Ukraine on Monday to create an independent anti-corruption court with the power to prosecute and convict officials guilty of state graft. The bloc’s diplomatic chief Federica...
EU's Mogherini says Ukraine must do more to fight corruption
KIEV (Reuters) – The European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Monday Ukraine must do more to fight corruption and establish an anti-corruption court in line with the recommendations of the Venice Commission, a rights watchdog. …read more Source: The...
EU extends sanctions over Ukraine conflict
BRUSSELS: The European Union on Monday extended by a further six months sanctions against Russian and Ukrainian officials over their suspected involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Asset freezes and travel bans now affect 150 individuals, up one from six months earlier, and 38 “entities”, which include businesses,...
Vladimir Putin: Russia’s post-Soviet tsar
Vladimir Putin has stamped his total authority in Russia. (AFP pic) MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin, who is set to extend his rule to 2024 in Russia’s presidential election on Sunday, has stamped his total authority in Russia by silencing opposition and reasserting Moscow’s might abroad. The 65-year-old former KGB officer has reimposed the...
Putin says he will ‘never’ give Crimea back to Ukraine
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that under no circumstances would he give Crimea back to Ukraine, speaking in a new documentary released Sunday ahead of his expected re-election in next week’s poll. “What, have you gone mad?” he told a journalist who asked him if there were any circumstances under which the...
