TNK-BP is pushing back after its temporary exclusion from the pipeline export route to Poland and cuts in crude volumes it can ship to Belarus, its chief oil trader said Tuesday. TNK-BP clawed back some volumes but the allocations it got for the third quarter remain below previous levels, said Jonathan Kollek, senior vice president for sales, trading and logistics. “After 10 years of working [...]
Tag: Israel
June 29, 2011
June 29, 2011
Desert island jazz
Desert island jazz The Usadba Jazz festival comes to the city for the first time this year, bringing jazz to leafy Yelagin Island. By Yelena Minenko The St. Petersburg Times Published: June 29, 2011 (Issue # 1663) jenialubich.com Singer Zhenya Lubich will perform with her band on Saturday. Jazz musicians and lovers will congregate this [...]
June 28, 2011
German doctors confirm Egypt’s ex-leader Mubarak has cancer
A team of German has inspected former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and confirmed that he has cancer, Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram reported on Tuesday. The newspaper says that basing on blood test results and other tests doctors diagnosed that Mubarak, 82, has an early stage cancer, which “progresses very slowly.” Last week a lawyer for Mubarak’s [...]
June 27, 2011
Egyptian deputy PM accuses Israel, U.S. of stirring religious conflict
Egypt’s Deputy Prime Minister Yehya El Gamal has accused the United States and Israel of fomenting religious violence aimed at weakening Egypt, Arab media said on Monday. “The United States and Israel are behind the religious sedition in Egypt” as “they realize this is the only way to break up the country,” the MENA news [...]
June 27, 2011
Ryazan
1 of 5 RYAZAN — There is a widespread belief in Ryazan that Koreans owe some of their digital excellence to a local plant called Plazma. But few would remember the South Korean firm’s name when talking about Plazma’s joint venture with the Koreans — a memory dating back to the mid-1990s. Plazma’s deputy director [...]
June 26, 2011
Israel warns journalists against joining second Gaza flotilla
Israel on Sunday threatened to ban foreign journalists from the country for 10 years if they travel with an aid flotilla due to sail to the Gaza Strip next week. The 11 ships will try to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza, which was tightened in 2007 after the Islamist movement Hamas took over the [...]
June 25, 2011
Egypt extends custody of Israeli spy suspect for 15 days
Egyptian court extended for 15 days the custody of Ilan Grapel, a US-Israeli citizen suspected of espionage on behalf of Israel, Egyptian news agency MENA said on Saturday. Grapel was arrested on June 12 in Cairo on suspicion of espionage. He is accused of “the subversive activity, aimed at damaging Egypt’s economic and political interests.” [...]
June 25, 2011
Main news of June 25
WORLD *Egyptian court extended for 15 days the custody of Ilan Grapel, a US-Israeli citizen suspected of espionage on behalf of Israel, Egyptian news agency MENA said on Saturday *French authorities have prohibited the sale of three types of sprouts from the British seed supplier, Thompson and Morgan, reportedly infected with E. Coli, France’s secretary [...]
June 23, 2011
Interview: Alleged Russian Crime Boss Says Russian Mafia Is ‘A Necessary Myth’
Earlier this month, “Forbes” magazine listed Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov as one of the 10 most-wanted criminals in the United States, citing sources in U.S. government agencies such as the FBI and the CIA. Tokhtakhunov, who is better known in Russian by the nickname “Taivanchik” (Little Taiwanese), has long been reputed to be a leading figure in [...]
June 22, 2011
Russia may soon start talks on CERN membership
Talks on Russia’s associate membership in the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) could begin in the next few months, Deputy Education and Science Minister Sergei Ivanets said on Wednesday. The 56-year-old CERN, which operates the $5.6 billion international Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project, has recently opened membership to non-EU countries through the associate member [...]
June 22, 2011
Interview: Alleged Russian Mafia Boss Says Russian Mafia Is ‘A Necessary Myth’
Earlier this month, “Forbes” magazine listed Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov as one of the 10 most-wanted criminals in the United States, citing sources in U.S. government agencies such as the FBI and the CIA. Tokhtakhunov, who is better known in Russian by the nickname “Taivanchik” (Little Taiwanese), has long been reputed to be a leading figure in [...]
June 22, 2011
Yelena Bonner In Her Own Right
At the 90th anniversary of Andrei Sakharov’s birth in Moscow on May 21 this year, the ranks of Sakharov’s cohorts were already thinner. Figures like veteran rights campaigner Larissa Bogoraz and scientist Valentin Turchin had died in recent years, and people felt that if they didn’t get to the 90th, they might not see people [...]
June 19, 2011
Final stage of Fatah-Hamas talks put on halt
The final round of talks between leaders of the recently reconciled Fatah and Hamas movements, Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Mashaal, scheduled for June 21 in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, was postponed for unidentified period of time, Egypt’s news agency MENA said. The leaders were expected to name a new reconciliation government. However, still existing [...]
June 19, 2011
South Sudan to open embassies in 21 countries after gaining independence
South Sudan plans to open its embassies in 21 countries, including in Israel, after it officially gains independence in early July, a source in the South Sudanese government said. The list of countries, where South Sudan plans to open its diplomatic missions, includes leading European Union states such as Italy, France and Germany. The list [...]