OTTAWA: Canada announced targeted sanctions Thursday against 17 Saudi nationals it said were linked to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month. The sanctions, which freezes their assets and bars their travel to Canada, “target individuals who are, in the opinion of the ...

New President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday called for the removal of Western sanctions on members of Zimbabwe’s ruling elite and said elections due in 2018 were “nearer than you expect”.The United States maintains a travel and economic embargo on several ZANU-PF party officials, top ...

MOSCOW: (APP) Russia's economy expanded for the first time in two years in the fourth quarter of 2016, data from the state statistics service showed Friday. The country recorded 0.3 percent growth in GDP year-on-year, Rosstat said, as Moscow pulls itself out of a two-year economic crisis ...

PARIS (AFP) - The Standard and Poor s agency raised its outlook for Russia s credit rating to "positive" from "stable" on Friday, citing improving growth prospects and a lower risk of large capital outflows.After two years of recession, the agency said it expected Russia to resume positive ...

PARIS (AFP) - The Standard and Poor s agency raised its outlook for Russia s credit rating to "positive" from "stable" on Friday, citing improving growth prospects and a lower risk of large capital outflows.After two years of recession, the agency said it expected Russia to resume positive ...

MOSCOW: Russia has unveiled its new nuclear missile Satan 2 capable of destroying an area equal to the United Kingdom.Russia has released the first image of its new nuclear missile, a weapon so powerful that it could wipe out nearly all of the United Kingdom or France.US Marines deployed near ...