Section: Dunya TV (Pakistan)
Russia chill permeates G20 summit
BRISBANE (AFP) – Russias Cold War-style standoff with the West sent a chill through G20 talks aimed at heating up the world economy on Saturday as leaders kicked off a summit in Australia.Global warming also emerged as a focus for leaders including Barack Obama, Russias Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping of China, posing another distraction for...
Russina chill permeates G20 summit
BRISBANE (AFP) – Russias Cold War-style standoff with the West sent a chill through G20 talks aimed at heating up the world economy on Saturday as leaders kicked off a summit in Australia.Global warming also emerged as a focus for leaders including Barack Obama, Russias Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping of China, posing another distraction for...
Hostile G20 kicks off with mixed agenda
Brisbane (Australia) (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will face hostile Western leaders around the table at the G20 Saturday, having been accused of being a bully and harbouring tsarist ambitions in the ill-tempered build up to the gathering of world statesmen.G20 leaders representing the bulk of the worlds economic and diplomatic...
Euro pushes higher as eurozone avoids recession in Q3
NEW YORK (AFP) – The euro gained against the dollar Friday helped by slightly improved growth numbers for the eurozone that showed the region still avoiding a new recession. Official data showed France and Germany narrowly avoided a new recession in the third quarter, while the broader 18-nation eurozone also faces anemic growth with just a...
Good news for eurozone as Germany, France skirt recession
Frankfurt (AFP) – The economic clouds over Europe appeared to lift slightly in the third quarter as its two biggest economies both narrowly escaped a new recession, official data showed on Friday.In Germany, Europes economic powerhouse, gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 0.1 percent in the period from July to September, after...
Russian military flights near US raise concern
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States on Thursday said Russia had boosted its military flights near US shores and brusquely warned Moscow to abide by international law.Washingtons concerns came only days after a European think tank warned that since Russia annexed Ukraines southern Crimea peninsula earlier this year, the intensity and...
Football: Croatia squad for Italy Euro 2016 qualifier
ZAGREB (AFP) – Croatia coach Niko Kovac named a 25-man squad on Thursday for the Euro 2016 qualifying encounter with Italy in Milan.The announcement came a day after Croatia lost 2-1 to Argentina in a friendly match in London, their first defeat in five games — but it was mitigated by the fact that Kovac had left his entire first XI...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ gang sows terror in Moscow
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia has been hunting a mysterious gang that has terrorised Moscow motorists in recent months with a series of murders resembling the violent video game Grand Theft Auto.The gang — swiftly dubbed the GTA gang by Russian media after the video game that involves scoring points for murders — is believed to have...
European probe lands on comet, fails to anchor
Darmstadt (Germany) (AFP) – Europe made history Wednesday by placing the first-ever lander on a comet — but the robot failed to anchor itself properly, raising concerns at ground control.The fridge-sized lab dubbed Philae touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in a high-risk manoeuvre more than 510 million kilometres (320...
NATO:Russian troops in Ukraine amid fears of all-out war
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – NATO on Wednesday accused Russia of sending tanks, troops and military hardware to east Ukraine, raising fears of renewed all-out fighting and calling into question the Minsk peace deal.Moscow denied the claims as unfounded and the deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Alexander Pankin, told an emergency...
