Moscow/AFP Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that jets from the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier deployed in the eastern Mediterranean had launched their first strikes on Syria. “For the first time in our naval history, the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov started taking part in combat,” Shoigu said at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin in the Black …

  Riyadh/ AFP Arab leaders must treat the region’s 100 million young people as an asset, not a liability, the UN’s youth envoy said in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. “This is a generation that is so willing to contribute,” but is beset by obstacles in the 22-nation region plagued by conflict since a wave of Arab uprisings demanding reform erupted after …

  Moscow / AFP Russia’s security service said on Tuesday it had detained five suspects with ties to the IS extremist group who were plotting to carry out attacks in the country. The FSB security service said in a statement it had “thwarted the activities of a group created to perpetrate crimes of a terrorist and extremist nature” in Moscow and …