Section: The News International (Pakistan)
Ukraine files ?terrorism? case against Russia
THE HAGUE: Ukraine has filed a case at the UN’s top court accusing Russia of sponsoring “terrorism” and demanding Moscow pay damages for the shelling of civilians and the downing of flight MH17, officials said on Tuesday. Kiev has asked the International Court of Justice to “declare that the Russian Federation bears international...
Europe hits back at Trump over ?obsolete? Nato
Europe’s fate ‘in our own hands’, says Merkel BRUSSELS: Angela Merkel led a sharp European response to US President-elect Donald Trump on Monday after he branded the Nato alliance “obsolete” and criticised the German chancellor’s open-door refugee policy. In a hard-hitting interview with two European newspapers, Trump unleashed...
US Marines land in Norway, irking Russia
OSLO: Some 300 US Marines landed in Norway on Monday for a six-month deployment, the first time since World War Two that foreign troops have been allowed to be stationed there, in a deployment which has irked Norway’s Arctic neighbour Russia. Officials played down any link between the operation and Nato concerns over Russia, but the...
New truce in east Ukraine disrupted
KIEV: Ukrainian government forces and the pro-Russian separatist rebels fighting in eastern Ukraine on Saturday accused each other of disrupting a fragile truce declared late December. Kiev and the rebels agreed a new “indefinite” ceasefire deal after Ukraine and Russia held talks in Minsk last month mediated by the Organisation for...
Poles welcome US troops as Nato eyes Russia
ZAGAN, Poland: Polish authorities and ordinary Poles welcomed on Saturday US troops who arrived this week as part of an unprecedented deployment to Nato’s eastern flank aimed at deterring Russia. “Welcome to Poland,” Prime Minister Beata Szydlo told US troops in Zagan, the Polish town on the German border where the brigade will be...
Ukraine freeze kills 40 in two weeks
KIEV: Sub-zero temperatures across Ukraine have claimed 40 lives since late December, officials said on Friday as the death toll from the cold snap hitting Europe keeps rising. Authorities said most of those who died of exposure were found in the streets, a total of 40 victims since December 30, with 11 of them confirmed dead in the past 24...
CIA nominee lists Russia among challenges to US
WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump´s nominee to head the CIA portrayed multiple challenges facing the United States on Thursday, from an aggressive Russia to a “disruptive” Iran to a China that he said is creating “real tensions. “Diverging from Trump´s stated aim of seeking closer ties with Russia, Mike Pompeo said...
US senators seek Russia sanctions over cyber activities
WASHINGTON: Senior US Republican and Democratic senators will introduce legislation on Tuesday seeking to impose a wide range of sanctions on Russia over its cyber activities and actions in Syria and Ukraine. The legislation is sponsored by 10 senators – Republicans John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Ben Sasse and Rob Portman and...
Ukraine?s ?indefinite? truce ?will it bring any change?
KIEV: The sceptics are out there — and so are the shells echoing over the decimated war zone of eastern Ukraine that is supposed to be protected by a new “indefinite” truce. The announcement of latest armistice in the 31-month conflict that has roiled the EU’s backyard at the cost of nearly 10,000 lives came after several days of...
Putin refuses to expel US diplomats
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said on Friday said he would not expel any Americans in response to Washington turfing out dozens of Russian diplomats over alleged election interference. The Kremlin strongman´s shock decision came after Russia´s foreign ministry asked him to send home 35 US diplomats in a tit-for-tat retaliation for the...
