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Hounded and out of work, gay Ukrainians flee rebel east
Shows Ukrainian women 35 –year-old Yulia (R) and 28-year-old Natalia (L), embracing on the balcony of a refuge home in Kiev, after they fled the separatist east out of fear for their lives for being gay. The stigma of being gay in Ukraine has long forced many to keep their personal lives to themselves. And it makes efforts by relief agencies to...
Armenia president suspends electricity price hike after protests
YEREVAN: Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian (pix) on Saturday suspended a controversial hike in electricity prices but the move failed to appease protesters who vowed to keep up with the largest anti-government demonstrations the ex-Soviet nation has seen in years. Thousands have taken to the streets of the capital Yerevan since June 19 to...
Tunisia weighs new security approach as tourists flee after Islamic State attack
Tunisian army soldiers guard the street near the attacked Imperial Marhaba hotel in Sousse, Tunisia. (Source: AP) Thousands of tourists fled from Tunisia on Saturday after the country’s worst terrorist attack killed 38 people — including 15 Britons — as the government struggles to prevent future jihadi attacks against the all-important...
Dutch investigators complete work at Boeing crash site in Ukraine
THE HAGUE. KAZINFORM – The Dutch investigators have completed work at the MH17 Boeing crash site in Ukraine, the prosecutor’s office of the Netherlands said on Saturday evening. …read more Source:...
China says changing position on sea dispute would shame ancestors
BEIJING: Changing position on China’s claims over the South China Sea would shame its ancestors, while not facing up to infringements of Chinese sovereignty there would shame its children, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday. China has become increasingly assertive in the South China Sea, building artificial islands in areas over...
Victims of the Tunisia beach slaughter
TUNIS: Thirty-eight people were killed and 39 wounded Friday in an attack on a tourist resort in Port el Kantaoui in eastern Tunisia that was claimed by the Islamic State group. The attack on the beach and pools of the Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel near Sousse, 140 kilometres (90 miles) south of Tunis, was the bloodiest of its kind in recent...
Conflicting reports surface about congo fever among Afghans
By Fazlur Rehman Zarghooni on 27 June 2015 KABUL (Pajhwok): Three Afghan patients with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) have been transferred to Hayat Medical Complex (HMC) in Peshawar, provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for treatment but Afghanistan’s Ministry of Health rejected presence of the viral disease in the...
China: Changing position on sea would shame ancestors
BEIJING: Changing position on China’s claims over the South China Sea would shame its ancestors, while not facing up to infringements of Chinese sovereignty there would shame its children, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said yesterday. China has become increasingly assertive in the South China Sea, building artificial islands in areas over which...
US compares China’s South China Sea moves to Russia’s in Ukraine
WASHINGTON: The US State Department’s number two diplomat on Friday compared China’s behaviour in pursuit of territory in the South China Sea to that of Russia in eastern Ukraine. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken called China’s large scale reclamation projects in the South China Sea, “a threat to peace and stability.” He...
Conflicting reports about congo fever among Afghan patients
By Fazlur Rehman Zarghooni on 27 June 2015 KABUL (Pajhwok): Three Afghan patients with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) have been transferred to Hayat Medical Complex (HMC) in Peshawar, provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for treatment but Afghanistan’s Ministry of Health rejected presence of the viral disease in the...
