Section: Dunya TV (Pakistan)
Putin says Russia will build new weapons but avoid arms race
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin says Russia will develop new weapons that will ensure its security without entering a costly arms race with the West.Putin said Tuesday after touring a shooting range outside Moscow that some of the weapons he saw there looked like they came straight from a science fiction movie.He says Russias...
EU to continue unfriendly course against Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The European Union (EU) has shown itis not ready to change its unfriendly course by leaving inplace economic sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis,the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.The EU said after a meeting on Monday that any alleviationof sanctions against Russia would happen only if there...
IMF slashes 2015-2016 world growth forecast
Washington (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday sharply cut its 2015-2016 world growth forecast of only six months ago, saying lower oil prices did not offset pervasive weaknesses around the globe.The IMF said poorer prospects in China, Russia, the euro area and Japan will hold world growth to just 3.5 percent this year and...
EU agrees to stick to Russia sanctions policy
BRUSSELS (AFP) – EU foreign ministers agreed Monday there would be no change in the blocs Russia policy, including sanctions, as the unions diplomatic chief warned the Ukraine situation had got much worse in recent weeks.They said they would stick to their course until Russia fully implemented the Ukraine peace accords it had backed in...
Civilians under threat as Ukraine clashes flare
DONETSK (AFP) – Deadly clashes between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels threatened civilians in central Donetsk on Monday, with shelling hitting a hospital and warnings of insurgents launching attacks from residential areas.Ukraine also made fresh accusations of Moscow backing the separatists, alleging that hundreds of Russian troops...
Hundreds march in memory of slain Russian lawyer and journalist
MOSCOW (AFP) – Hundreds of Russians marched in Moscow and Saint Petersburg on Monday, six years after a lawyer and reporter were murdered by ultra-nationalists.About 500 people walked through central Moscow mourning slain lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, a journalist with an opposition paper, who were gunned down on a...
Rebels blow up part of Donetsk airport, many wounded: Ukraine
KIEV (AFP) – Pro-Russian rebels blew up part of a ceiling at the battered Donetsk airport in war-torn eastern Ukraine on Monday, causing a section of it to collapse and wounding many soldiers, an adviser to the president said.Further details of the incident were unclear, but the airport has been hit by heavy combat in recent days, with both...
Russian economy to shrink 4.8% this year: EBRD bank
LONDON (AFP) – Russias battered economy will shrink by a far worse-than-expected 4.8 percent this year, as plunging oil prices add to fallout from the Ukraine crisis, the EBRD development bank forecast Monday.The London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development sharply revised its September prediction for a 0.2-percent...
Ukraine says tank offensive pushing rebels from airport
DONETSK (AFP) – Ukraine rushed tanks to the front lines and claimed Sunday to have cleared pro-Russian rebels from most of Donetsk airport after days of intense fighting, with heavy shelling shaking the key eastern city.As fighting wracked the countrys war-torn east, thousands of people held a common prayer and peace march in the capital...
Ukraine leader vows to retake separatist-held east
KIEV, Ukraine: (AP) – Ukraines president vowed Sunday to reassert control over his countrys conflict-shattered eastern regions as fighting there reached a new peak of intensity.Petro Poroshenko told a crowd of several thousand gathered in central Kiev that Ukraine wouldnt give up an inch of its land to Russian-backed separatists.The...
