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Meet the Emirati female pilot who flies A380s, one of the world’s largest passenger aircraft
Monitoring Desk ABU DHABI: Regularly flying across the world, traversing different time zones and flying the world’s largest passenger aircraft — the Airbus A380 — is all in a day’s work for Emirati pilot Aisha Al Mansouri, a senior first officer with Etihad Airways. It all started when her sister, who was already a pilot, took her to...
Russia bans oil export to Ukraine
MOSCOW (AA): Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday said he has signed a decree expanding Russian sanctions against Ukraine. The new measures ban export to Ukraine of oil, oil products and coal, he said at a government meeting in Moscow. Also, the decree expands the list of items prohibited for import from Ukraine, he added. “We are expanding...
US-Russia chill stirs worry about stumbling into conflict
Robert Burns WASHINGTON: It has the makings of a new Cold War, or worse. The deep chill in U.S.-Russian relations is stirring concern in some quarters that Washington and Moscow are in danger of stumbling into an armed confrontation that, by mistake or miscalculation, could lead to nuclear war. American and European analysts and current and...
Preventing Catastrophe in Afghanistan
WAKIL KOHSAR This brief presents a summary of key historical events in Afghanistan since 1989 and outlines a possible worst-case scenario following a U.S. and allied withdrawal from the country. The United States, Afghanistan, and its allies must work together in search for greater Afghan self-reliance, security, and stability in order to avoid a...
How Mueller’s hunt for a Russia-Trump conspiracy came up short
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters): As recently as February, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team dropped hints that the inquiry into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election might unearth evidence of active cooperation between Moscow and President Donald Trump’s campaign. That turned out not to be the case. Attorney General William...
India hopes to avoid US sanctions over Russian missile deal
NEW DELHI: India is hopeful it will avoid US sanctions over its purchase of Russia’s S-400 missile system, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told AFP. New Delhi has been “heard and understood” by the US administration over its accord to buy the S-400 missile defence system for $5.2 billion, the minister said in an interview this week....
Russian navy navigating stormy seas
Russian officials regularly announce new mega-projects involving the navy, but in reality, the force is battling problems with state financing, ageing shipyards, and delays in fulfilling orders, experts say.The Kremlin is keen to display the strength of its armed forces — organising massive war games on Nato borders, backing President...
U.S. State Secretary to update NATO on peace negotiations in Afghanistan: Stoltenberg
KABUL (Khaama Press): The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the Secretary of the State of the United States Mike Pompeo will update NATO on peace negotiations in Afghanistan. In his speech ahead of the NATO Foreign Ministerial in Washington, Stoltenberg said “We will also assess NATO’s role in the fight against...
Pompeo urges NATO allies to adapt to new threats from Russia, China
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday called on NATO allies to adapt to confront a wide variety of emerging threats, including Russia’s increased aggression, Chinese strategic competition and uncontrolled migration. Pompeo made the call at the start of a meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization foreign ministers in...
Turkey?s tensions with Nato sours
WASHINGTON: Turkey on Wednesday insisted that it will buy a missile system from Russia, striking a note of disunity as the Nato alliance opened a 70’th birthday party in Washington.Foreign ministers from the 29-member Western alliance are hoping to show a tough, united front on a resurgent Russia as they meet for two days in the US capital....
