Section: Daily News & Analysis (India)
MH17 crash: Names of those responsible for shooting down plane might be confirmed by end of 2016, says Australia
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Sunday the names of those responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014 might be confirmed by the end of the year. “By the end of the year, maybe early next year, the list of those that we believe should be held accountable will be confirmed and then there...
Ukraine rebels deny downing Flight MH17, reject probe findings
A top pro-Russian separatist commander in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday denied Dutch findings blaming the downing of Flight MH17 on a Russian missile fired from rebel-held territory. “The forces of the People’s Republic of Donetsk could not have fired at the plane from a BUK system because we have no such sort of weapons,”...
Russia dismisses MH17 findings as false, politically-motivated
Russia on Wednesday flatly dismissed a report from international prosecutors which concluded that Malaysian airliner MH17 had been downed by a Russian-made missile launched from a Ukrainian village held by pro-Russian rebels in 2014. In a strongly-worded statement, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the Dutch-led...
dna Evening Must Reads: From cancellation of SAARC summit to latest updates on MH17 and more
1. Pakistan Isolated: Islamabad-SAARC 2016 finally called off, says report The 19th SAARC Summit has been postponed after India refused to take part in it. Bhutan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan also declined to attend. Read more. 2. After Lodha Panel’s stinging status report, BCCI likely to remove selectors Khoda and Paranjpe Gagan Khoda and...
Saina Nehwal hopes to return to courts by end of next month
Her recovery from a knee injury going ahead smoothly, India’s star shuttler Saina Nehwal is hoping to return to the courts by the end of next month. “Not before end (of) October, so I will miss tournaments till that time. I am world No.8 at present, it may go down further,” Saina told PTI here. “We have already done six...
Caroline Wozniacki to face off against Naomi Osaka in Pan Pacific Open final for first time ever!
Caroline Wozniacki outlasted Agnieszka Radwanska 4-6 7-5 6-4 in a dog fight of a semi-final at the Pan Pacific Open on Saturday to end the Pole’s reign at the Ariake Coliseum. The former world number one prevailed in two hours and 50 minutes of hard-fought tennis and will meet Naomi Osaka in Sunday’s final after the local wildcard...
Syria declares ceasefire over as bombing of Aleppo reported
Syria’s military declared a week-long ceasefire over on Monday and air raids were reported in Aleppo, even as officials from the United States and Russia met behind closed doors in Geneva to try to extend the truce. Syrian or Russian warplanes bombed rebel-held areas in the city of Aleppo and nearby villages, the Syrian Observatory for...
Vladimir Putin firms control with big win for Russia’s ruling party
Vladimir Putin won even greater supremacy over Russia’s political system after the ruling United Russia party took three quarters of the seats in parliament in a weekend election, paving the way for him to run for a fourth term as president. With most votes counted, the party, founded by Putin almost 16 years ago after he first became...
Russia votes in parliamentary polls with Putin secure
Russians voted on Sunday in parliamentary polls, with parties loyal to President Vladimir Putin expected to maintain their dominance despite the longest economic crisis of his rule. The nationwide election follows a tumultuous few years that have seen the country seize the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine, plunge into its worst standoff with the...
Hillary Clinton says damage done by Donald Trump needs to be ‘undone’
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Sunday said the “damage” done by her rival Donald Trump needs to be undone after the elections and underlined that the real estate tycoon’s “ignorance” towards Russian President Vladimir Putin is “dangerous”. “We already know he (Trump) has done...
