Section: The Gulf Today (United Arab Emirates)
Last MH17 crash remains arrive in Netherlands
THE HAGUE: A flight carrying the last remains of Dutch victims killed in last year’s MH17 plane crash in rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine arrived in the Netherlands on Saturday. The Dutch air force C-130 plane landed shortly before 4.00 pm (1400 GMT) at the Eindhoven air force base carrying seven coffins, live video on Dutch news...
2 Ukrainian servicemen killed despite truce
KIEV: Two Ukrainian serviceman have been killed and two wounded in separatist attacks on government forces in eastern Ukraine despite the Minsk ceasefire agreement, Interfax news agency quoted the Ukrainian military as saying on Friday. “In the past 24 hours the situation in the conflict zone remained not quiet, but under control. Rebels continue...
Chernobyl wildfire extinguished
KIEV: Firefighters have nearly extinguished a forest fire near Ukraine’s Chernobyl plant, scene of the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986 and hope to put it out fully within two days, the emergency services said on Thursday. “There are no more open flames,” but fires are still smouldering out of sight, said the deputy head of the...
Ukrainian rebels expel foreign aid group
DONETSK: Representatives of a New York-based aid group were expelled from separatist-held territories in eastern Ukraine on Thursday after rebels closed down their operational base, accusing them of spying. Around 17 foreign and local workers for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) were detained in their office in the rebel-controlled city...
Ukraine warns of ‘threat of war’
KIEV: A Ukrainian soldier was killed and 14 others injured as shelling intensified in eastern parts of the country where government forces are fighting pro-Russian rebels, the army said Tuesday. “One Ukrainian soldier was killed and 14 injured due to military activity” over the past 24 hours, military spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk told a news...
Ukraine seeks EU help amid shelling
KIEV: Ukraine pressed European leaders on Monday to send peacekeepers to stabilise the war-torn east, as monitors reported a surge in shelling near a strategic government-held city. Top European Union officials landed in Kiev for a key summit with the former Soviet state as it faces off against separatists in the east, whom its Western allies...
Kiev’s truce under pressure as one more cop killed
KIEV: A fragile ceasefire between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists came under renewed pressure on Sunday with the Ukrainian military reporting a serviceman had been killed and seven others wounded in rebel attacks. The casualties, which follow the death on Saturday of another serviceman in shelling in the south east,...
Ukraine marks 29 years since Chernobyl disaster
KIEV: Ukrainians on Sunday marked 29 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, laying wreaths and candles near the plant where work to lay a new seal over the reactor site has been delayed. The explosion of reactor number four on April 26, 1986, spewed poisonous radiation over large parts of Europe, particularly Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. At...
Ukraine soldier dies in rebel raid near Mariupol
KIEV: A Ukrainian serviceman was killed and two were wounded in shelling attacks by pro-Russian separatists on Saturday near the port of Mariupol in Ukraine’s southeast, Kiev’s military said. A military spokesman said rebels opened artillery fire on forces from the government’s National Guard at Shyrokyne, a village to the east...
Kazakhstan might re-elect long-time ruler
ALMATY: As oil-rich Kazakhstan votes for a president on Sunday, the governing elite is pounding home a mantra of stability as fears percolate about the country’s massive Russian minority taking inspiration from the Moscow-backed insurgency in Ukraine. With authorities clamping down on all opposition, Nursultan Nazarbayev’s re-election...
