Section: Dunya TV (Pakistan)
Russia holds two more suspects over Nemtsov killing
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russian police have arrested another two men over the killing of opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down in the centre of Moscow, state media reported Sunday, bringing the number held to four.Albert Barakhoyev, secretary of the Security Council of Russian republic of Ingushetia told state news agency RIA...
Sweetening gloomy Russia, one chocolate bar at a time
MOSCOW (AFP) – When days are dark, friends are few and the state of your bank account makes you want to weep, there is only one thing you can do in bleak, crisis-hit Russia.Keep calm and eat some very expensive chocolate.That was the message from artisanal chocolatiers in Moscow who attended this past week the capitals first chocolate fair...
Boom in journalist drone use flies into legal obstacles
PARIS (AFP) – Flying over the flaming barricades of the Maidan protests in Kiev, the camps of Auschwitz or hurtling down a ski slope — drones have become a vital tool for cameramen, but they are increasingly running into legal and practical obstacles.Many news networks such as the BBC, Russia Today and Frances TF1 have bought their...
In EU foreign policy, strength through unity hard to come by
RIGA, Latvia: (AP) – It was enough even for the normally unflappable European Union President Donald Tusk to start losing his cool. He stuttered, staggered his sentences, as he assessed what Russian President Vladimir Putin was doing to the EUs brittle sense of unity.One of the most important goals for President Putin today is to divide...
Russia arrests 2 over Nemtsov’s killing
MOSCOW (AFP) – Two suspects have been arrested over the killing of Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned downlast week near the Kremlin in a brazen assassination that shocked the country, the state security agency said Saturday.Two suspects were arrested today in connection with this crime, they are Anzor Gubashev and...
Russia arrests two over Nemtsov killing
MOSCOW (AFP) – Two suspects have been arrested over the killing of Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down near the Kremlin in a brazen assassination that shocked the country, the state security agency said Saturday.The arrests come a week after the longtime critic of President Vladimir Putin was shot four times in...
Ukrainian pilot decides to end hunger strike in Russian jail: lawyer
MOSCOW (AFP) – Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko has decided to end a hunger strike after going more than 80 days without food to protest her detention in a Russian jail, one of her lawyers said on Friday.She has taken the decision, lawyer Mark Feigin told AFP.She had been on the brink, he said, adding that the pilots weakening health had...
Ukraine pulls back rocket launchers from frontline
ARTEMIVSK (AFP) – Kiev said Friday it had withdrawn all its Uragan multiple rocket launchers from the main conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, in compliance with a ceasefire agreement with pro-Russian rebels.Two of the imposing Uragan (Hurricane) rocket launchers — equipped with 16 launch tubes for 220mm rockets — were being...
Oil prices rise before US jobs data
LONDON (AFP) – Oil prices rose on Friday as dealers awaited US jobs data and focused on increasing tensions in the Middle East and Ukraine.US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for delivery in April added 14 cents to $50.90 a barrel.Brent North Sea crude for April gained 56 cents to stand at $61.04 a barrel around midday in London.Investors...
Putin takes 10% salary cut in crisis-hit Russia
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Friday he was cutting his salary by 10 percent as well as the earnings of several top government officials, as the countrys economy reels from the collapse of the ruble.The salaries of Putin, his Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Prosecutor General Yury Chaika and the president of the...
