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Paris Air Show goes green but sales war takes centre-stage
PARIS – With air passenger numbers set to double to six billion annually by 2030, the world’s premier air show in Paris will next week focus on green issues even as the aircraft sales war remains centre stage.The Paris Air Show brings together some 315,000 visitors and 2,260 exhibitors from 47 countries, with much of the attention...
Giant statue of Orthodox prince stirs controversy in Moscow
MOSCOW – Scaffolding surrounds the vast clay sculpture-in-progress inside a warehouse on Moscow’s outskirts, yet already the statue of Vladimir the Great has caused an outcry as big as the monument itself.The 24-metre (78-feet) high likeness of the man who brought Christianity to Kievan Rus – the forerunner of modern Russia and...
Boxing: Wilder wants big KO in heavyweight title defense
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Deontay Wilder vowed to deliver the kind of savage knockout that helped forge his name when he makes his first defense of his World Boxing Council heavyweight world title Saturday against Eric Molina.Ive definitely got to knock him out, said the explosive Wilder, who in January became the first American since Shannon...
Washington Accuses Russia of ‘Outright Lies’ on Ukraine
Washington’s UN envoy accused Russia on Thursday of spinning ‘outright lies’ on Ukraine designed to hide the Kremlin’s direct involvement in a war it launched to thwart Kiev’s pro-Western drive. …read more Source:...
Washington accuses Russia of ‘outright lies’ on Ukraine
KIEV – Washington’s UN envoy accused Russia on Thursday of spinning “outright lies” on Ukraine designed to hide the Kremlin’s direct involvement in a war it launched to thwart Kiev’s pro-Western drive.Samantha Power’s address to a crowd of hundreds in Kiev delivered one of Washington’s toughest...
Russian Groups Crowdfund the War in Ukraine
The Novorossiya Humanitarian Battalion boasts on its website that it provided funds to buy a pair of binoculars used by rebels in eastern Ukraine to spot and destroy an armored vehicle. Another group,… …read more Source:...
Athletics: Bislett Games world record hopes dashed
OSLO (AFP) – The celebrations of the Bislett Games 50th edition fell flat Thursday when anticipated world records in the mens high jump and womens 5,000m failed to materialise.Ethiopias Genzebe Dibaba finished way off her target in the 5,000m after being off the pace for large parts of the race and could only finish in 14min 21.29secThe...
Putin keeps Pope waiting, again. This time for 70 min
Pope Francis waited for more than an hour to tell Russian President Vladimir Putin to commit to peace and dialogue on Ukraine. …read more Source: The Times of...
Pope Francis urges Putin to make ‘sincere effort’ for peace in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has used a trip to Italy to press his case against international sanctions and was urged by Pope Francis to make a “sincere effort” for peace in Ukraine. …read more Source: South China Morning...
EU lawmakers slam Russia, demand sanctions maintained
STRASBOURG (Reuters) – The European Parliament passed a resolution on Thursday calling on EU governments to maintain sanctions on Russia over its action in Ukraine, the second such critical vote in the EU legislature in as many days. …read more Source: The...
