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Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Nov. 2, 2015
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas. The Week That WasFrom island engineering to human engineering, this was another big...
Ukraine Leader Says Arrest of Oligarch Ally Just ‘The Start’
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warned Sunday that the arrest of a millionaire associate of one of the country’s most powerful oligarchs was only “the start” of a fight against the corruption pla… …read more Source:...
Russia mourns victims of crashed Egypt plane
SAINT PETERSBURG: Flags flew at half-mast in Russia on Sunday as the country mourned its worst air disaster after a jetliner full of Russian tourists crashed in Egypt, killing all 224 on board. The flight had been bringing holidaymakers back to Saint Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city, when it disappeared off radar screens while over...
Russian plane broke up ‘in the air’ says expert probing crash
WADI AL-ZOLOMAT, Egypt: A Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt broke up “in the air” strewing fragments across a wide area, an expert said Sunday as investigators probed the disaster that killed 224 people. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged patience to determine the cause of Saturday’s crash, after the Islamic State...
Arrest of Ukraine oligarch's ally politically motivated – lawyer
KIEV (Reuters) – The arrest in Ukraine of a close associate of the influential business tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky on suspicion of embezzlement is politically motivated, his lawyer said on Sunday. …read more Source: The...
Arrest of Ukraine oligarch’s ally politically motivated – lawyer
The arrest in Ukraine of a close associate of the influential business tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky on suspicion of embezzlement is politically motivated, his lawyer said on Sunday. …read more Source: Channel...
Egypt: Official says doomed Russian plane was in good shape
In this photo released by the Prime Minister’s office, Sherif Ismail, right, looks at the remains of a crashed passenger jet in Hassana, Egypt. (Source: AP photo) An Egyptian ground service official who carried out a pre-flight inspection of the Russian passenger plane that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula said Sunday that the Airbus A321-200...
Egypt: Official says doomed Russian plane was in good shape
National mourning: The Russian national flag is flown at half-mast on top of the Senate Building in Kremlin on the day of national mourning in Moscow, Russia, Sunday. The Russian Metrojet airliner crashed Saturday in a remote mountainous part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula 23 minutes after taking off from a popular Red Sea resort, killing all...
Egypt rescuers widen search for Russian plane crash victims
EL-HASANA, Egypt: Egyptian rescue teams were looking Sunday for more victims of a Russian passenger plane crash in Sinai, widening the search after finding bodies scattered for kilometres a day after the incident. A military officer helping with the search told AFP that rescuers had found 163 bodies out of a total of 224 people who were on board...
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...
