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[Ticker] Egypt buys French Mistral war ships built for Russia
Egypt has agreed to buy two French Mistral warships originally built for Russia, the French presidency has announced. France cancelled a deal to sell the ships to Russia last year, following the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Earlier this year, Egypt also bought 24 advanced Rafale fighter jets from France. …read more Source:...
South Africa hurtles ‘south’
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Throughout the long Cold War one of the West’s principal concerns was the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. On the one hand it was feared that the main liberation movement, the African National Congress, had fallen under Communist control. This considerably complicated the West’s support for the...
[Ticker] Egypt to buy ex-Russia warships from France
The office of French President Hollande said Wednesday he and Egyptian leader Fattah Al-Sissi “agreed on the principle and the terms of the acquisition by Egypt of the two Mistral warships”, Reuters reports. The ships were to be sold to Russia, but France cancelled the deal after Russia invaded Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Varoufakis told you so
ATHENS — Yanis Varoufakis lives in understated elegance. His apartment is spacious and pleasing to the eye. Shelves bulge with books on politics and economics, unsurprising for a university professor who was, until July, Greece’s finance minister. Varoufakis is welcoming. He makes us coffee and puts a box of chocolates on the table, next to...
[Ticker] Nato opens embassy in Kiev
Nato chief Stoltenberg in Kiev Tuesday inaugurated the Western defence alliance’s first-ever embassy in Ukraine. He said “Ukraine can rely on Nato” and that “our partnership will grow even more”. `He said nothing about Ukraine’s prospect of ever joining the alliance. Most Nato states have also refused to arm...
Gazprom bids to end EU antitrust probe
Gazprom has offered to settle antitrust charges leveled by the European Commission in a bid to end a politically charged investigation that could cost it billions in fines. The company, which is the dominant supplier of natural gas in much of Central and Eastern Europe, addressed the Commission’s concerns about how Gazprom sets prices,...
Time to get tough on Azerbaijan
Almost all the news coming out of Azerbaijan these days is bad. On August 9, an independent Azerbaijani journalist, Rasim Aliyev, was beaten and killed. A few days later, civil society activists Leyla and Arif Yunus were sentenced to lengthy prison terms on politically-motivated charges. And on September 1, a court sentenced award-winning...
Estonian journalists want answers from Kiev | Õhtuleht – Estonia
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UK watchdog raps RT for biased reports
LONDON — RT, the state-owned Russian news channel, was reprimanded by Britain’s communications watchdog Monday for airing biased and misleading reports on Ukraine and Syria. Ofcom found “significant” breaches of U.K. broadcasting rules in three separate programs screened by RT last year. It ordered the news channel to broadcast statements...
