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Pro-Russia journalist gunned down in Ukraine
KIEV: An unidentified assailant shot dead a pro-Russian journalist in Ukraine Thursday leading Kiev to brand the latest murders of pro-Moscow figures an enemy “provocation”. Reporter Oles Buzyna, 45, a supporter of Ukraine’s ousted Kremlin-backed president Viktor Yanukovych, was gunned down in central Kiev just hours after the...
Ukraine resort town crumbles under frontline shells
SHYROKYNE: A year ago, the building housed a children’s seaside camp, but now a two-metre blast hole gapes in its whitewashed wall. Once a popular holiday resort, the village of Shyrokyne on the Azov Sea now sits on the frontline of fighting that rumbles on despite a supposed ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. “It was a tank shell,”...
Putin dismisses France’s non-delivery of warships
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that France’s refusal to deliver two Mistral-class helicopter carriers to Moscow over the Ukraine crisis would not affect its defence capabilities. “Of course not delivering the ships according to a valid contract is a bad sign, but from the point of view of supporting our...
Putin admits Russia forcibly imposed Soviet model on E. Europe
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday admitted that the Soviet Union had sought to forcibly impose the Soviet model on Eastern Europe after World War II. “After WWII we tried to impose our model of development on many Eastern European countries and did it by force,” Putin said during his annual phone-in with Russians....
Thieves score €5m in jewels in Paris smash-and-grab
PARIS: French police were on Thursday hunting a trio of thieves who made off with a handbag containing €5 million worth of Chanel jewels in a smash-and-grab on the highway between Paris and Charles De Gaulle airport. A Taiwanese art collector was travelling in a taxi Wednesday afternoon through a long tunnel notorious for robbery attacks on...
Iran says nuclear deal depends on lifting of sanctions
ANKARA/DUBAI: Iran said on Wednesday it would only accept a deal over its contested nuclear programme if world powers simultaneously lifted all sanctions imposed on it. The comments by President Hassan Rouhani came the day after US President Barack Obama was forced to give Congress a say in any future accord — including the right to veto the...
Three Russian vessels in English Channel
LONDON: Three Russian ships including a destroyer have entered the English Channel and are being monitored by Britain’s Royal Navy as they pass through, the Ministry of Defence said Tuesday. It is the latest in a string of similar incidents and comes at a time of tense relations between London and Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine and the...
Six Ukrainian servicemen killed despite ceasefire
KIEV: Six Ukrainian servicemen were killed and 12 wounded in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours despite a ceasefire deal, the Kiev military said on Tuesday, as Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine called for an end to renewed heavy fighting. Ukraine’s military and pro-Russian rebels have accused each other of intensifying attacks over the...
Hospital in rebel-held east Ukraine shelled despite ceasefire
KIEV: A hospital in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk was hit by artillery fire on Sunday, Orthodox Easter, despite a ceasefire, but caused no casualties, local authorities said. “Four mortar shells hit hospital No 21 on Sunday morning. Three exploded in the hospital grounds and one fell on the roof but did not explode,” said Ivan...
Russia shuts exhibit of Western WWII photography
MOSCOW: A Russian museum that was due to host an exhibition of World War II images by photographic greats such as Robert Capa has unexpectedly closed just before the show was due to open, reportedly on Moscow’s orders. Pictures chosen by the curators included classics like Capa’s images of the D-Day landings and Alfred...
