Section: Dunya TV (Pakistan)
Parts of crashed Russian plane found in Black Sea
SOCHI, Russia (AFP) – Russian rescuers found Monday the first parts of the Syria-bound military plane that plunged into the Black Sea, as officials dismissed terrorism as a possible cause of the crash that killed all 92 people on board.The Tu-154 jet, whose passengers included more than 60 members of the internationally-renowned Red Army...
Israeli PM, angered by anti-settlement U.N. vote, summons U.S. ambassador
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday summoned the U.S. ambassador to Israel to discuss the U.S. abstention in a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an end to settlement-building.Separately, the envoys of 10 other nations were called in to the Israeli Foreign Ministry to be reprimanded on Sunday,...
Germany hunts attacker’s accomplices, arrests in Tunisia
BERLIN (AFP) – Germany on Saturday hunted for possible accomplices of Anis Amri, the suspected Berlin truck attacker who was gunned down by Italian police, as Tunisia announced it had arrested his nephew.Tunisias interior ministry said the nephew and two other suspected jihadists, aged between 18 and 27, were detained on Friday and were...
Putin warms to Trump, flexes muscles on Syria
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday appeared to cosy up to US President-elect Donald Trump while asserting his authority as the key powerbroker in Syria.At his annual end-of-year press conference, the confident Kremlin strongman praised Trump for tapping into the public mood in the US to claim his surprise win in...
Kremlin says almost all Russia-US dialogue ‘frozen’
MOSCOW (AFP) – The Kremlin said Wednesday that nearly all the communication channels between Moscow and Washington were frozen, local media reported. Practically all levels of dialogue with the United States are frozen, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Mir TV, state news agency RIA Novosti reported. We dont communicate with one another....
From Panama Papers to impeachments: 2016 rocked by corruption scandals
PANAMA CITY (AFP) – From the Panama Papers to the impeachments of the presidents of Brazil and South Korea, 2016 was a year marked by corruption scandals, and by rising public outrage over graft.The question is, will that translate into a lasting demand for cleaner politics?A new phenomenon is being seen, said Jose Ugaz, a renowned Peruvian...
Putin, Abe signal no resolution on island dispute
TOKYO (AFP) – Russia and Japan on Friday signalled there was no resolution after a two-day summit to a decades-long territorial dispute that has blocked them from achieving a peace treaty to formally end World War II hostilities.Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held talks in Abe’s ancestral...
NATO to hold talks with Russia Monday: Stoltenberg
BRUSSELS (AFP) – NATO will hold a fresh round of formal talks with Russia on Monday to discuss European security and the Ukraine conflict, alliance head Jens Stoltenberg said.I have invited members of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) to a meeting on Monday at ambassadorial level at NATO headquarters to discuss topics of relevance to European...
Putin, Abe hold hot spring meet on WWII island row
NAGATO (AFP) – Japan and Russia on Thursday hunkered down to try and make progress towards a peace treaty formally ending World War II hostilities hamstrung by a decades-old territorial dispute.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is hosting President Vladimir Putin at a hot spring summit in his ancestral city of Nagato in the hopes of achieving a...
Boxing: Beating Klitschko would make me a legend: Joshua
LONDON (AFP) – Britains heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua says beating Ukrainian veteran Wladimir Klitschko in their mouthwatering showdown for the IBF and WBA crowns next April would entitle him to be called a legend.The 27-year-old 2012 Olympic champion — who defended his IBF title successfully last Saturday against American...
