Section: Africa&ME
Police raids Crimean Tatar TV channel, journalist homes
Raids target those linked to Crimean Tatar businessman, public figure Lenur Islyamov, who recently organized economic blockade of Russia-occupied Crimea …read more Source: World...
Russian police raids Crimea Tatar TV channel, journalist homes
Russian police searched the offices of a Tatar TV channel in Crimea early Monday as well as homes of its employees, its deputy director told AFP, the latest raid against the once popular network which was forced to go off air in April …read more Source: The Daily...
Russian police raids Crimean Tatar TV channel, journalist homes
Persons targeted by raids are employees at enterprises of Crimean Tatar businessman, public figure Lenur Islyamov, who recently organized economic blockade of Russia-occupied Crimean peninsula …read more Source: World...
Flight recorders show crashed Russian jet not struck from outside – investigator (Update 1)
By Lin Noueihed The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt was not struck from the outside and the pilot did not make a distress call before it disappeared from radar, a source in the committee analysing the flight recorders said on Monday. The source declined to give more details but based his comments on the preliminary examination of the black...
Malaysia spends $53.95m on MH370 search
Malaysia has spent $53.95 million so far on the search for flight MH370, a senior official said. ||| Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia has spent 231.45 million ringgit (53.95 million dollars) so far on the search for flight MH370, which disappeared more than a year ago, a senior official said on Monday.Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai told the...
UN body: Anwar detention illegal
A UN body reportedly determined that former Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been jailed in violation of international law. ||| A UN body has determined that former Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been jailed in violation of international law and called for his immediate release, according to a copy of the opinion...
UN body calls for Malaysia’s Anwar to be freed: family
A UN body has determined that former Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been jailed in violation of international law and called for his immediate release, according to a copy of the opinion released Monday by his family. Anwar, 68, was jailed in February for five years after being convicted for sodomising a male aide. He denies the...
In China: Former diplomat pins blame for refugee crisis on West
"Mechanically copying the 'colour revolution' of the Western path to development and political system, not only will not lead to the democracy and livelihood improvements people expect, but will cause a vicious circle of violence and bloodshed," The West is to blame for the refugee crisis confronting Europe after it interfered...
Bodies of Egypt crash victims arrive in Russia
SAINT PETERSBURG // A plane carrying the remains of 144 people killed when a Russian airliner crashed in Egypt landed in Saint Petersburg early on Monday, hours after investigators probing the doomed flight said it had broken up in the air.The emergency Russian plane, the first to bring back the bodies of those who died when the A-321 plummeted...
Police raids homes of major Crimean Tatar figures
Persons targeted by raids are employees at enterprises of Crimean Tatar businessman, public figure Lenur Islyamov, who recently organized economic blockade of Russia-occupied Crimean peninsula …read more Source: World...
