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IMF announces Ukraine rescue visit
KIEV: (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund said on Saturday it would dispatch a team to Ukraine to determine just how much extra aid the war-wrecked and energy-starved nation will need to make it through winter.The nine-day visit due to start on Tuesday comes as Ukraine suffers rolling blackouts and resentment grows over a severe...
Greek PM outraged by British Museum sculpture loan
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum has loaned one of the Parthenon Marbles to Russias Hermitage Museum the first time in 200 years that any of the ancient sculptures has left Britain. The move outraged Greece, which has demanded that the marbles be permanently returned.The marble sculpture of the river god Ilissos a reclining male figure from...
Ailing Malaysia Airlines to postpone shares Dec 15
Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER moody MH318 to Beijing sits on a tarmac as passengers are reflected on a potion during a boarding embankment during Kuala Lumpur International Airport. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines pronounced a shares will be dangling from a country’s batch sell on Dec 15 underneath a supervision...
Study finds Pakistan’s online space increasingly ‘not free’
Pakistan slid dual points from 67 in 2013 on a leisure measure to 69 in 2014. PHOTO: AFP Increasing attempts by a supervision to quell entrance to calm online while seeking introduction of laws that extent polite liberties online, has landed Pakistan among a 10 misfortune countries for net freedom, a investigate expelled by Freedom House on...
Domracheva wins women’s 15k biathlon
OSTERSUND, Sweden (AP) – Olympic champion Darya Domracheva of Belarus won the womens 15-kilometer individual race at the biathlon World Cup on Thursday.Domracheva took an early lead and claimed her 20th World Cup victory in 46 minutes, 43.6 seconds, with two penalties.She came in 27.9 seconds ahead of Kaisa Makarainen of Finland, who missed...
Online freedom suffered this year; declined in 36 of 65
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Internet freedom suffered this year as a growing number of countries stepped up efforts to spy on users and censor online postings, a global survey showed Thursday.The report by the non-government watchdog group Freedom House said online freedom declined in 36 of 65 countries surveyed.In some cases, governments use...
Kerry says any Iran strikes against IS ‘positive’
Brussels (AFP) – US Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed any Iranian military action against Islamic State jihadists in Iraq as positive after the Pentagon said Tehran had carried out air strikes against the group.Kerry, hosting a meeting of an anti-IS coalition in Brussels, said international air strikes were finally stopping the advance...
Several police die in clashes with militants in Chechnya: official
MOSCOW, Dec 04, 2014 (AFP) – Several police died in clashes with militants who attacked a traffic post in the Chechen capital Grozny and then stormed a building housing local media, Russian officials said on Thursday.The latest skirmishes in volatile Chechnya will be seen as a major affront to President Vladimir Putin who is set to deliver...
Obama pessimistic over chances of Putin shift on Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama said Wednesday Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is unlikely to shift his stance on Ukraine until the full force of economic sanctions levelled against Moscow hits home.Obama said Putins nationalist, backward-looking outlook had isolated Russia internationally but had played well domestically.We...
Pakistan has world’s second largest save of anti-personnel landmines: Report
In 2013 there was an normal of 9 victims a day, compared to 25 daily when a Landmine Monitor initial started recording misadventure rates in 1999. PHOTO: AFP WASHINGTON: In an age where tellurian efforts to exterminate landmines are temperament fruit, Pakistan is one of usually 4 countries in a universe that still produces anti-personnel...
