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      Al Qaeda turns to Syria, with a plan to challenge IS: NYT
      May16

      Al Qaeda turns to Syria, with a plan to challenge IS: NYT

      Al Qaeda`s top leadership in Pakistan, badly weakened after a decade of C.I.A. drone strikes, has decided that the terror group`s future lies in Syria and has secretly dispatched more than a dozen of its most seasoned veterans there, according to senior American and European intelligence and counterterrorism officials, according to The New York...

      Kernel`s top managers complain to country`s leaders about SBU search
      May16

      Kernel`s top managers complain to country`s leaders about SBU search

      The top managers of the Kernel company, one of Ukraine`s largest agribusinesses, have sent an open letter to Ukrainian authorities, complaining about recent searches conducted by the SBU Security Service of Ukraine at the company`s office, the Kernel`s press service reported.”On May 12, 2016 Kernel`s headquarters in Kyiv was searched by...

      FT: NATO rapid unit not fit for eastern Europe deployment, say generals
      May16

      FT: NATO rapid unit not fit for eastern Europe deployment, say generals

      NATO`s new ”spearhead” rapid reaction force could not be deployed in eastern Europe if there was a war with Russia, according to the alliance`s own military assessments, the Financial Times reports.The ”Very High Readiness Joint Task Force,” the 5,000-strong centerpiece of the 2014 NATO summit and the package of measures it produced to counter...

      Newly appointed Prosecutor General Lutsenko becomes NSDC member
      May16

      Newly appointed Prosecutor General Lutsenko becomes NSDC member

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has included newly appointed Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko in the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), according to presidential decree No. 212 of May 16.”I order to make Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko (by consent) member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine,” the...

      Armenia, Azerbaijan presidents to meet in Vienna over Nagorno-Karabakh
      May16

      Armenia, Azerbaijan presidents to meet in Vienna over Nagorno-Karabakh

      The Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents are set to meet in Vienna to discuss a fragile cease-fire in Azerbaijan`s breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, according to Radio Liberty.The meeting between Serzh Sarkisian and Ilham Aliyev will be their first face-to-face encounter since Nagorno-Karabakh in early April saw its worst violence in two decades,...

      Moldova restricts dairy, meat, cement imports from Ukraine until year-end
      May16

      Moldova restricts dairy, meat, cement imports from Ukraine until year-end

      Moldova has published a government resolution on the introduction of measures to protect its market by restricting imports of Ukrainian dairy foods, meat and cement by means of quotas and import duties until the end of 2016, according to the Ukrainian Europeiska Pravda portal.The document was posted on the Moldovan government`s website on May...

      Philippine President vows to bring back death penalty
      May16

      Philippine President vows to bring back death penalty

      Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said he will seek to return the death penalty, in his first comments to reporters since last week`s election, according to the BBC.He added that he would also seek to give security forces shoot-to-kill powers for suspects who evade arrest and those involved in organized crime, the BBC reports.It is...

      Naftogaz discloses price of gas imports from Europe
      May16

      Naftogaz discloses price of gas imports from Europe

      The price of natural gas Ukraine imported from the European Union in the first quarter (Q1) of 2016 was $198 per 1,000 cubic meters on the average, which was lower by 34% year-over-year, according to country`s largest energy holding Naftogaz of Ukraine.Last year natural gas was bought abroad at a price of $228 per 1,000 cubic meters in the fourth...

      IS Yemen suicide bomber kills 25 police recruits
      May16

      IS Yemen suicide bomber kills 25 police recruits

      A suicide bomber killed at least 25 new recruits inside a police compound in the southern Yemeni city of Mukalla on Sunday in an attack claimed by Islamic State, medical and security sources said, according to Reuters.The victims were queuing up to register when the bomb, which wounded 25 others, went off, the sources said, as reported by...

      Groysman promises better roads in Ukraine in 2-3 years
      May16

      Groysman promises better roads in Ukraine in 2-3 years

      Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman says he expects that Ukraine will have better roads in two or three years, according to the Cabinet of Ministers Secretariat`s Information and Communication Department.”Now we have started to rebuild the road sector in Ukraine. Of course, it is very difficult to do this in a day, a week or a year, but I...