Section: Pakistan Today (Pakistan)
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...
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...
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...
West-Russia relations tense as Russians prepare to vote
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin’s pre-election nuclear sabre-rattling has raised the stakes in Moscow’s confrontation with the West on the eve of his fourth Kremlin term. The 65-year-old former KGB officer is all but guaranteed to extend his rule until 2024 in a presidential election on March 18 that follows an anaemic campaign punctuated by...
Investigators search snow for clues to deadly Russian plane crash
Rescuers on Monday searched through deep snow for body parts and debris after a Russian passenger plane crashed near Moscow minutes after take-off, killing all 71 people on board, in the country’s deadliest air crash since 2016. The Antonov An-148 plane went down in a snow-covered field, making it difficult to access, with emergency workers...
UN council to meet on North Korea rights abuses, nuclear program in December
United Nations Security Council ministers will meet on Dec. 15 to discuss North Korea’s nuclear and missiles programs and the body will also meet separately this month to discuss human rights abuses in the North Asian country, an annual meeting that its ally China has tried to prevent for the past three years. Japan’s UN Ambassador...
Magical Insigne keeps Napoli’s Champions League hopes alive
NAPLES: Italy reject Lorenzo Insigne’s second-half wonder strike opened the floodgates as Napoli kept their Champions League hopes alive with a 3-0 win over Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday. Napoli forward Insigne had also scored against AC Milan on Saturday, fresh from being left on the bench as Italy failed to qualify for the World Cup for the...
Venezuela to restructure foreign debt, faces looming default
CARACAS: Venezuela on Thursday announced plans to restructure its burgeoning foreign debt, a move that may lead to a default by the cash-strapped OPEC nation whose collapsing socialist economy has left its population struggling to find food and medicine. President Nicolas Maduro vowed to make a $1.1 billion payment on a bond maturing on Thursday,...
World shouldn’t be dominated by one currency: Russia
BEIJING: Russia and China were considering linking their national payment system, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday, as he called for a more balanced global finance structure. Noting the rise of China’s UnionPay system and Beijing’s efforts to internationalise its currency, the yuan, Medvedev told a press...
First charges, plea deal emerge in Trump Russia probe
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump´s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was charged Monday with conspiracy against the United States and money laundering, in the first indictments stemming from a sprawling probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the probe, also announced that a...
