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British deadline to Russia expires, escalation expected
LONDON: Britain braced for a showdown with Russia on Wednesday after a midnight deadline set by Prime Minister Theresa May expired without an explanation from Moscow about how a Soviet-era nerve toxin was used to strike down a former Russian double agent. The United States, European Union and NATO supported Britain after May said it was “highly...
Britain, Russia brace for showdown as deadline for nerve attack probe expires
Members of the emergency services wearing protective clothing work near the bench where former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found poisoned in Salisbury, Britain, March 13, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls LONDON: Britain braced for a showdown with Russia on Wednesday after a midnight deadline set by Prime...
Trump fires Tillerson, replaces him with hawkish spy chief Pompeo
LEFT: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Mike Pompeo in Capitol Hill, Washington, US, May 11, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Thayer/Files; RIGHT: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Washington, US, March 6, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/Files WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday after a series of...
Spy poisoning: UK considers ‘full range’ of retaliation
LONDON: Prime Minister Theresa May has warned that Britain is considering a “full range” of retaliatory measures if it concludes that Russia was responsible for a nerve agent attack in an English city.Options mooted in recent days include the expulsion of Russian diplomats, a retaliatory cyber attack and asset seizures of Russian...
Spy poisoning: UK considers ‘full range’ of retaliation
LONDON (AFP): Prime Minister Theresa May has warned that Britain is considering a “full range” of retaliatory measures if it concludes that Russia was responsible for a nerve agent attack in an English city. Options mooted in recent days include the expulsion of Russian diplomats, a retaliatory cyber attack and asset seizures of Russian nationals...
Putin order for bomb threat plane to be downed in 2014 canceled after false alarm
MOSCOW: Russia’s Vladimir Putin in 2014 ordered a passenger aircraft which was reported to be carrying a bomb and targeting the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi to be downed, the president said in a film shown on Sunday. In a 2-hour documentary titled “Putin” and available on Russian social media, Putin told reporter Andrey...
Serena, Venus win to set up third-round clash
Monitoring Desk Indian Wells: Serena Williams continued her tennis comeback with a 7-6(5) 7-5 win over Kiki Bertens at the BNP Paribas Open on Saturday, setting up a third-round encounter with her sister Venus. Serena, who is returning to the sport after taking more than a year away to have a baby, was ragged at times but used her power to wear...
Putin order for bomb threat plane to be downed in 2014 cancelled after false alarm
MOSCOW: Russia´s Vladimir Putin in 2014 ordered a passenger aircraft which was reported to be carrying a bomb and targeting the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi to be downed, the president said in a film shown on Sunday.In a 2-hour documentary titled “Putin” and available on Russian social media, Putin told reporter Andrey Kondrashov...
Crimea will never return to Ukraine: Putin
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that under no circumstances would he give Crimea back to Ukraine, speaking in a new documentary released Sunday ahead of his expected re-election in next week’s poll.”What, have you gone mad?” he told a journalist who asked him if there were any circumstances under which the...
Maybe ‘Jews’ but not Kremlin meddled in US election: Putin
President Vladimir Putin suggested in a US television interview that Ukrainians, Tatars or “Jews,” could have meddled in the 2016 US presidential election — but not the Kremlin. “Why have you decided the Russian authorities, myself included, gave anybody permission to do this?” Putin asked in the often-combative interview with NBC television. The...
