Section: The Himalayan Times (Nepal)
Ukraine’s rebel center in limbo as fighting dies down
DONETSK:The fighting has subsided, but Donetsk is quickly sinking into the past — a shabby Soviet-like state of empty streets and deprivation. Huge portraits of Josef Stalin hanging in the city center only reinforce the impression of failure. The wounds are raw in the capital of eastern Ukraine’s pro-Russia insurgency and its prognosis not...
Djokovic downs Bellucci to reach third round in Paris
Ivo Karlovic of Croatia reacts after winning his match against Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka at the Swiss Indoors ATP men’s tennis tournament in Basel, Switzerland October 28, 2015. REUTERS PARIS: World number one Novak Djokovic was given a decent workout by Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci as he opened his Paris Masters campaign with a 7-5...
Mourinho denies player revolt at Chelsea
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho during the press conference at Chelsea’s Training Ground on October 16, 2015. Photo: Reuters LONDON: Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho rejected suggestions there was a player revolt against him on Tuesday and dismissed reports that one player would rather lose than play for him as “dishonest”. He also said he...
Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas denies reports of rift with Mourinho
Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas takes the ball downfield during his team’s English Community Shield soccer match between Arsenal and Chelsea at Wembley Stadium, London, England, Sunday August 2, 2015. Photo: AP Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas has denied suggestions of a rift with manager Jose Mourinho, accusing “certain individuals from...
Mourinho handed stadium ban and fine
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho with staff after the matchReuters LONDON: Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has been given a one-match stadium suspension with immediate effect and fined 40,000 pounds ($61,680.00) over a misconduct charge, the Football Association said on Monday. The Portuguese admitted an FA charge relating to his language and/or...
Mourinho needs a win as Dynamo Kiev visit London
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho walks on the pitch after defeat. Reuters LONDON: Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho will be scrutinised more closely than ever as his ailing side take on Dynamo Kiev in Champions League Group G on Wednesday. Despite having won the competition twice, with Porto and Inter Milan, the Portugese is under increasing pressure...
UN group says Malaysia Anwar’s jailing politically motivated
KUALA LUMPUR: Imprisoned Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was prosecuted for political reasons and he should be released, a UN body concluded. Anwar began serving a five-year jail sentence in February after the country’s top court ruled that he sodomised a former male aide in 2008. His case was widely seen as politically motivated...
Mongolia, between big neighbors, seeks permanent neutrality
Mongolian children play near a Mongolian warrior on horseback in front of the Mongolian Parliament House in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on Friday, October 30, 2015. Photo: AP ULAANBAATAR: Sandwiched between China and Russia, landlocked Mongolia has long tread a middle path, maintaining a balance between Moscow and Beijing while referring to the US and...
US Secretary of State in first meeting with autocratic Uzbek leader
Kerry, Karimov meet in ancient “Silk Road” city Samarkand Gathering of Kerry, five Central Asian counterparts Kerry alludes to rights concerns, Karimov ignores query Uzbek President Islam Karimov (centre) shakes hands with US Secretary of State John Kerry (right) as Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov (left) watches at Samarkand Airport...
Ukraine holds local elections that test oligarchs’ reach
A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, October 25, 2015. Photo: AP MARIUPOL: Ukrainians are voting in local elections that are seen as a test of the strength of President Petro Poroshenko’s government and of the oligarchs accustomed to running regions of the country. The situation in Mariupol, a major port...
