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Putin approves airport stake salePresident Vladimir Putin has given the green light for the sale of the government’s 30.4% stake in Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow’s largest, at a time when Russia is seeking to bolster its war-depleted state finances.Putin paved the way for the sale by signing a decree on Thursday that removes Sheremetyevo from the official list of strategic enterprises. But the state will retain a controlling “golden share”, enabling it to block any management decisions it opposes.The decree prevents the stake from being sold to foreign buyers, and requires the purchaser to continue the company’s core business and modernisation.Russia’ state budget has been strained by four and a half years of war in Ukraine. Its federal deficit could exceed official plans by more than 1tn roubles ($12.85bn) in 2026, according to data published last month.The deficit was 5.73tn roubles ($69.6bn), or 2.5% of GDP, in the first half of the year, 1.7 times higher than in the same period of 2025.Sixty-six percent of the airport is owned by Russian company Sheremetyevo Holding, whose ultimate owners are not publicly disclosed. Before its redomiciling from Cyprus in 2022 it was controlled by firms owned by Putin’s close friend Arkady Rotenberg and Rotenberg’s partners.Sheremetyevo is Russia’s largest airport, owning and operating terminals with capacity to handle up to 87mn passengers a year. Actual numbers were 43.5mn in 2025.Despite Western sanctions and flight restrictions, airports are still profitable thanks to a growth in traffic on domestic routes and to “friendly” countries such as Turkiye, Egypt and Vietnam.In January this year Sheremetyevo purchased 100% of another major Moscow airport, Domodedovo, for 66bn roubles at auction.Domodedovo, which was nationalised at the Prosecutor General’s request in June 2025, has annual traffic of around 15mn passengers. Source link
Houthi attacks on Yemen’s Marib province killed at least 10 people yesterday, according to a minister and military source, as the rebels escalated strikes on the oil-rich region a day after their deadliest attack in years. The latest violence has raised the spectre of a return to war in the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country, where a 2022 truce between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed government had largely held before unravelling last month.A Yemeni military source told AFP that Houthi attacks in Marib province killed eight members of government forces and wounded 12 others. The health minister for the Yemeni government said the rebels had shelled residential areas and displacement camps in Marib city, killing at least two civilians and wounding 14 others.The rebels later claimed an attack on a government-held military camp in Marib province.”The Saudi enemy continued to mobilise and incite its forces… these forces were attacked along with their arsenals, vehicles and military equipment in the Sahn al-Jinn camp with a large number of missiles and drones,” Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said in a statement, referring to the camp held by government forces.The Houthis had also launched “more than 10 missiles and seven one-way attack drones targeting military camps in Marib” province, the Yemeni military source told AFP, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. A source close to the Saudi military told AFP that the Saudi-led coalition supporting the Yemeni government since 2015 would not stand “idly by” as the Houthis step up their attacks, adding that Marib was a “red line”.He warned that “the coalition does not seek escalation, but we will not allow the current balance of power on the ground to be changed.” Riyadh would not accept a Houthi takeover of Marib, he said, adding that he believed the rebels were seeking to launch an offensive in the province.The rebels said Thursday that they had attacked several sites in response to a Saudi-backed build-up of government forces. Thursday’s attacks with missiles and drones killed at least 58 government troops, mainly in Marib, an army source told AFP earlier, one of the deadliest incidents between the two sides in years.The Yemeni military source had previously said artillery exchanges and clashes were taking place in Sirwah and on the Al-Kasara front, north of Marib city, where Houthi drones were spotted. The rebels also hit an arms depot in the region.Strategic Marib province is split between the Houthis and the Yemeni government, which controls the city of the same name as well as the area’s oil fields and facilities. The Houthis in 2021 resumed an offensive seeking to take the energy-rich province, but the fighting was largely halted after a nationwide truce was agreed in 2022.Yemen, which has been embroiled in more than a decade of war, last month became the latest front to be sucked into the US-Iran conflict, as the Tehran-backed Houthis upended the 2022 truce. The rebels welcomed an Iranian plane directly to the Yemeni capital Sanaa, triggering a series of tit-for-tat attacks. They later announced a maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia and began hitting its tankers. Last month, the Houthis also killed 16 soldiers in an attack on government-aligned forces south of the port city of Hodeidah, two medical officials told AFP. Source link
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Perched on the edge of a rooftop high above Gaza City's bombed-out landscape, Ibrahim al-Dabba lovingly tends his community of bees, cultivating a rare source of hope among the ruins of the Israel-Hamas war.Al-Dabba and his sons, donning protective netted hats and wielding metal bee smokers, gently inspect the neat rows of teeming hives.As each frame of honeycomb is lifted out, hundreds of bees buzz lazily above the shattered urban neighbourhood — an incongruous setting for an apiary, but one the veteran beekeeper had little option but to choose.Al-Dabba, who heads the Beekeepers Cooperative in the Gaza Strip, said the war which erupted in October 2023 obliterated the Palestinian territory's beekeeping culture.’We had more than 40,000 beehives and more than 450 beekeepers’ before the war, he told AFP from the rooftop in Gaza City's Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood.’The situation was good, with more than 1,000 families making a living through the beekeeping sector,’ he added.’The war came and destroyed the beekeeping sector by more than 95% because most beekeepers were near the border areas,’ he explained.Al-Dabba himself lost some 400 hives, which he had kept in agricultural lands east of Gaza City.He had no choice but to relocate his remaining 35 or so hives to the roof of a residential building, but admitted the situation was far from ideal.’Bees are supposed to be in a safe, suitable agricultural area, but today the bees are suffering just as we are,’ he said.Al-Dabba explained that he could not move his bees back to their previous home because it had been destroyed and the land was now under the control of the Israeli military.’We cannot approach or enter,’ he said.’Just as we are displaced in the streets, the bees are also displaced on the rooftops.’The devastating war in Gaza was triggered by Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.Israel's retaliatory military campaign in Gaza has killed more than 73,300 people, according to the territory's health ministry, which operates under Hamas authority and whose figures are considered reliable by the UN.Despite the ceasefire in effect since October, bloodshed has continued in the tiny territory, with the Israeli military continuing to target Palestinians they say are militants.Israel says it now controls more than 60% of the Gaza Strip, up from about half when the ceasefire took effect.The humanitarian situation also remains dire, with hundreds of thousands of people living in tents and Israel tightly controlling the entry of all goods into the territory.’We lack essential supplies because importing beekeeping equipment from the other side is not permitted,’ al-Dabba told AFP, saying he had approached external organisations and ministries in Gaza and the occupied West Bank for help.Despite the suffering and challenges of relocating his hives to an unfamiliar landscape, al-Dabba said he found ‘hope after seeing the bees coexist and adapt’.’The bees now come and go and feel settled,’ he said.’So we hope that hope, goodness and living in peace and security will come, like in other countries.’ Source link
