Section: Dunya TV (Pakistan)
Spain says suffering ‘big losses’ from Russian sanctions
MOSCOW, March 10, 2015 (AFP) – Spain said Tuesday its economy had taken a significant hit as a result of tit-for-tat EU and Russian sanctions over Moscows backing of separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said his country had racked up big losses from the sanctions, after a meeting with his Russian...
Ukraine, rebels withdraw ‘lion’s share’ of weapons: Poroshenko
KIEV (AFP) – Both sides in the conflict in eastern Ukraine have withdrawn most of their heavy weapons from the frontline, bolstering a month-old truce, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.In an interview with state television Monday evening Poroshenko said government forces had withdrawn the lions share of multiple launch rocket...
Russia could not ‘abandon’ Crimea: Putin
MOSCOW (AFP) – President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia took over Crimea because it had to protect Crimeas mostly ethnic-Russian population after pro-Western Ukrainian nationalists came to power in Ukraine.In the latest preview of an upcoming documentary called Homeward bound on state-run Rossiya-1 television, Putin portrayed...
UN puts Libya request for weapons on hold
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – Libyas request for UN approval to buy fighter jets, tanks and other weaponry to fight Islamic State militants has been put on hold at the request of seven Security Council members led by Spain, diplomats said Monday.Libya had asked a Security Council committee for an exemption to an arms embargo to make the purchases...
Putin describes meeting to take Crimea before referendum
MOSCOW: (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has described a secret meeting with officials last year when Russia decided it would take Crimea, the Black Sea region that Moscow annexed from Ukraine last March.In a trailer for an upcoming documentary, shown on state-owned television late Sunday, Putin said that he met with security...
International expansion weighs on profit of supermarket group Auchan
PARIS (AFP) – Auchan said Monday its net profit fell by a quarter last year despite rising sales as its international expansion weighed on the bottom line of the France-based supermarket group.Net profit fell by 25.2 percent to 574 million euros ($624 million).Meanwhile, sales stripped of taxes rose by 14.7 percent at constant exchange...
Chechen confesses involvement in murder of Russia’s Nemtsov
Moscow (AFP) – A Russian court on Sunday charged two men with the murder of opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, including a former police officer from Chechnya who confessed to his involvement in what investigators said was a contract killing.Four others denied any connection to the killing of Nemtsov, who was shot four times in the back on...
Chechnya policeman confesses involvement in Nemtsov murder: Russian court
MOSCOW (AFP) – A Russian court on Sunday charged two men with the murder of opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, including an ex-police officer from Chechnya who confessed to his involvement in what investigators said was a contract killing.Four other suspects have denied connection to the February 27 killing of Nemtsov who was shot four...
Russian court charges 2, detains 3 others in Nemtsov killing
MOSCOW: (AP) – A Russian court on Sunday charged two men in the killing of leading opposition figure Boris Nemtsov and ordered three other suspects to remain in jail pending a decision on whether to file charges.Russian news agencies said one of those charged has admitted involvement in the crime.Judge Nataliya Mushnikova said that Zaur...
Russia detains four suspects over Nemtsov killing
Moscow (AFP) – Four men were in custody Sunday for the killing of Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov in a probe which has yet to reveal the motive for the brazen assassination in the centre of Moscow.The suspects, from Chechnya in the volatile northern Caucasus region, were detained a little over a week after Nemtsov, a longtime...
