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Tymoshenko won?t challenge vote results
KIEV: Ukraine’s former prime minister Yuliya Tymoshenko on Tuesday denounced the results of a “rigged” vote that eliminated her from the presidential race, but said she would not urge street protests.Tymoshenko, an internationally recognised political figure, came third in Sunday’s first-round vote in what was also her...
NATO meeting to focus on Russia, as US cautions Turkey over missile purchases
WASHINGTON: Turkey remains an important NATO ally and partner to the United States despite concerns over its plans to buy missile defence systems from Russia, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday, a day before the start of a NATO meeting in Washington. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity to preview the meeting of NATO...
DFB president Grindel to resign: reports
BERLIN: The beleaguered president of the German Football Association (DFB) Reinhard Grindel is set to resign, according to media reports on Tuesday. Germany’s top-selling daily Bild, national broadcaster ZDF and news agency DPA said the 57-year-old would resign after nearly three years as the head of the DFB. Grindel has been under pressure...
NATO’s 70th anniversary to be celebrated in Washington
BRUSSELS (AA): NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs will attend two-day meetings in Washington to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the alliance, the group announced Monday. “Ministers of Foreign Affairs will attend events and hold meetings in Washington DC, United States of America, on Wednesday 3 and Thursday 4 April 2019,” it said in a press...
Comedian takes commanding lead in Ukraine presidential vote
KIEV: A comedian with no political experience took a commanding lead in the first round of Ukraine’s presidential election, offering a fresh face to voters fed up with corruption in a country on the front line of the West’s standoff with Russia. With three-quarters of votes counted on Monday, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a 41-year-old comic...
How Trump’s Golan decision will further frustrate Mideast peace process
Laura Rozen Even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warmly welcomed the step, former US diplomats and peace process veterans say they saw little near-term security benefit, and possible risks, from US President Donald Trump’s decision — announced in a tweet today — for the United States to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the...
Russia explains why military specialists arrived to Venezuela
MOSCOW (Sputnik): Russian servicemen are in Venezuela legally, they are helping to carry out maintenance of previously supplied Russian military equipment, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said commenting on the recent call on Russia by US President Donald Trump to leave Venezuela. “We have explained what our servicemen are doing in Venezuela,...
Comedian likely to top first round as Ukraine chooses president
A comedian whose political experience is limited to playing the president on TV vowed to tackle Ukraine’s corruption, as he voted Sunday in the first stage of a presidential election he is tipped to win.Actor Volodymyr Zelensky’s bid began as a long shot but he has leapfrogged establishment politicians amid public anger over graft and...
A white supremacist in Turkey
One of the latest discoveries people have made is that New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinta Adern is a nice person, who condoled with the victims and said As-salaam Alaikum, not to mention calling the attacker who killed 50 people at mosque in Christchurch, a ‘terrorist’. What seems to have escaped notice that she formed the government in...
Another MiG jet of Indian air force crashes in Rajasthan
In another incident, MiG 27 UPG aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed Sunday morning, Indian news channel India TV reported. The incident was reported from Godana near Sheoganj in Sirohi, while the aircraft was on a routine mission from Jodhpur in Rajasthan. Fate of the pilot was unknown. Any injuries or casualties into the incident were...
