Section: Daily News & Analysis (India)
Australia says expanded search area for Flight MH370 may take a year
Government ministers from Australia, China and Malaysia on Thursday said that they would extend the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 by an additional 60,000 sq kilometres if the wreckage is not found in the current search area. The extended search for the jetliner, which disappeared last year but is believed to have crashed in...
Putin says Washington told leaders not to attend Word War Two parade
President Vladimir Putin accused Washington on Thursday of putting pressure on some world leaders not to attend events in Russia marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe. Russia will stage a military parade on May 9 in what Putin called a display of “respect for victims of Nazis and to pay tribute to the …...
Russia blames US for security crises, turmoil in Ukraine
Top Russian officials accused the United States on Thursday of seeking political and military dominance in the world and sought to put blame on the West for international security crises, including the conflict in east Ukraine. Evoking Cold War-style rhetoric, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said a drive by the United States and its allies...
Ukrainian journalist killed by masked gunmen in Kiev: Interior ministry
Ukrainian journalist Oles Buzina was shot dead by two masked gunmen in Kiev on Thursday, the interior ministry said in an online statement. “Today at 1320 (1020 GMT) … two unidentifiable men in masks shot journalist Oles Buzina,” it said, adding that a team of police investigators was at the scene. Also Read: Russia’s...
Russia’s Putin says Kiev abandoning people of eastern Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Kiev was cutting off the Donbass area of eastern Ukraine by excluding its citizens from the national financial system. In answer to questions at a televised call-in, Putin also denied reports that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had asked Russia to take Donbass, a coal-mining region where...
Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer bulldoze into Monte Carlo last 16
Rafa Nadal returned to one of his favourite hunting grounds to thrash Frenchman Lucas Pouille at the Monte Carlo Masters on Wednesday as his build-up to the French Open began. The Spaniard, who will be looking for a 10th Roland Garros title next month, enjoyed a 6-2 6-1 second-round victory. The world number five, who has ruled in Monte Carlo a...
Iran says nuclear deal depends on lifting of sanctions
Iran said on Wednesday it would only accept a deal over its contested nuclear programme if world powers simultaneously lifted all sanctions imposed on it. The comments by President Hassan Rouhani came the day after US President Barack Obama was forced to give Congress a say in any future accord — including the right to veto the lifting of...
Russia will go to court if Ukraine does not repay debt on time, Finance Minister says
Russia will turn to arbitration courts should Ukraine fail to repay a $3 billion debt on time, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Tuesday. “In case of no repayment, we will turn to arbitration courts,” Siluanov told Russia’s state-owned Rossiya-1 television channel. Russia, which holds $3 billion of Ukrainian bonds due in...
Günter Grass warned humanity of ‘sleepwalking’ into world war in final interview
Germany’s Nobel-winning author Gunter Grass said he feared humanity was “sleepwalking” into a world war in the last interview he gave before his death. “We have on the one side Ukraine, whose situation is not improving; in Israel and Palestine things are getting worse; the disaster the Americans left in Iraq, the...
Canada to send around 200 military trainers to Ukraine
Canada, following in the steps of the United States and Britain, will send around 200 troops to Ukraine to help train soldiers who are battling Russian-back separatists, Ottawa said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement that the troops would be based in western Ukraine – far from the fighting – until March 31,...
