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Napoli, Benfica through as Arsenal pinch top spot in last 16
PARIS – Napoli and Benfica clinched places in the Champions League last 16 on Tuesday as nine-man Besiktas capitulated at Dynamo Kiev, while Arsenal snatched first place away from Paris Saint-Germain in Group A. …read more Source: Bangkok...
US, NATO stress ‘unity’ amid Trump fears
US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) listens to US ambassador to the NATO Douglas Lute during a meeting in Brussels on December 6, 2016 -AFP photo BRUSSELS: Top US and NATO officials stressed the importance of preserving transatlantic security ties on Tuesday amid doubts raised by Donald Trump’s election as president. Trump stoked concerns...
Ukraine feels let down by EU with visa deal elusive
KIEV – Ukraine feels let down by the European Union for not keeping to a promise to give its citizens visa-free travel in the bloc, senior Ukrainian officials said. The comments, made by two senior officials in interviews with Reuters, were… …read more Source:...
Chinese Online Lending Service Asks Women for Naked Selfies as Collateral
Chinese online loan sharks are targeting university students with demands of nude photographs as collateral for credit and threatening them with exposure if they don’t pay back the cash. . . BEIJING – Hundreds of photos and videos of naked women used as collateral for loans on a Chinese online lending service have leaked onto the web,...
The second round of the hippotherapy program is completed
ArmInfo.The Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC) and VivaCell-MTS hosted children with disabilities and their parents participating in one of the joint projects of FPWC and VivaCell-MTS – in the second round of the hippotherapy program in Yerevan Zoo. In June 2015, with the opening of the first inclusive...
Putin approves new cyber-security doctrine
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed off on a broad-ranging plan aimed at bolstering the country’s defenses against cyber attacks from abroad and cracking down on perceived foreign influence. The Kremlin’s new “information security doctrine” comes as attention has focused on the rise in state-sponsored hacking...
OSCE PA chairperson about Azerbaijan-Armenia meeting
“In the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly we always try to create platforms so that parliamentarians from different countries, not only Ukraine and Russia, but also Azerbaijan and Armenia could meet and we could start this process.” …read more Source:...
75 foreign citizens seek asylum in Armenia
75 foreign citizens have applied for asylum in Armenia during 2016, and only 40 were granted, who were citizens of Syria, Iraq, Iran and Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Russia promises Tajikistan ‘large quantity’ of military aircraft
DUSHANBE (TCA) — As China’s military influence in Tajikistan grows, we are republishing this article by Joshua Kucera, originally published by EurasiaNet.org: Russia has promised a “large quantity” of military aircraft to Tajikistan over the next year. The aid is part of a deal that the two countries signed in 2012, but which...
GUAM FMs to mull politic, economic co-op issues for 2017
A regular meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova) Organization for Democracy and Economic Development will be held in Hamburg on the sidelines of the 23rd OSCE Ministerial Council (December 8-9), GUAM Secretary General Altay Efendiyev told Trend on December 5. …read more Source:...
