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LIVE: No survivors as Russian aircraft with 224 people aboard crashes in Egypt
Relatives of the victims of a Russian airliner with 217 passengers and seven crew aboard has crashed, react as they gather at Pulkovo airport in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) A Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers and crew crashed in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula on Saturday after losing radar...
Vladimir Putin orders emergency teams to crash site of Russian plane
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered rescue teams to fly out to Egypt to work on the crash site Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the emergency ministry to dispatch rescue teams to Egypt, where a Russian passenger plane with 224 on board crashed today. “The head of state has given orders to send emergency ministry (teams) to Egypt...
South China Sea dispute: As Obama weighed patrol to counter China, Pentagon urged faster action
South China Sea islands. The U.S. naval challenge to China’s territorial assertiveness in the South China Sea this week came after months of frustration within the Pentagon at what some defense officials saw as unnecessary delays by the White House and State Department in approving the mission. As early as mid-May, the Pentagon was...
Ditching Urdu, Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif speaks in English at UN, faces contempt case
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif addresses the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. Headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015. (Source: AP) Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif faces a contempt case for failing to deliver his speech in Urdu at the UN General Assembly in violation of a verdict by the...
Egypt, Japan, Ukraine elected as non-permanent UNSC members
The non-permanent members that will remain on the Council until the end of 2016 are Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Venezuela. The UN General Assembly has elected Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay to serve as non-permanent members on the Security Council for two-year terms beginning January 1 next year. The new members, elected...
Russia appeals to UN aviation body to open new MH17 probe
Journalists take images of part of the reconstructed forward section of the fuselage after the presentation of the Dutch Safety Board’s final report into what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to break up high over Eastern Ukraine last year, killing all 298 people on board, during a press conference in Gilze-Rijen, central Netherlands,...
Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: Wreckage reveals horror of plane’s last moments
The wreckage was put together after being transported back from war-scarred eastern Ukraine by rail and plane to the Gilze-Rijen air force base in the Netherlands. (Source: Reuters file photo) A partial reconstruction of a Malaysia Airlines jet made of wreckage found strewn across eastern Ukraine told the graphic story of its violent last moments...
Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 shot down by Russian-built Buk missile: report
The Dutch Safety Board said on Tuesday that the MH17 was shot down in its final report on the July 2014 crash that killed all 298 aboard. Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board said on Tuesday in its final report on the July 2014 crash that killed all 298 aboard. The...
MH17 inquiry to unveil how the plane crashed, not reveal who’s responsible
All 298 people on board, most of them Dutch and among them 15 crew members, were killed when the routine flight between Amsterdam and Kuala Lumpur was brought down — possibly by a missile — over eastern Ukraine. (File/AP Photo) Dutch-led air crash investigators on Tuesday release their final report into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight...
Russia resumes much needed gas supply to Ukraine ahead of harsh winters
A view on a Ukrainin gas station Volovets in western Ukraine Wednesday, Oct.7, 2015. Russia, Ukraine and Europe have reached a deal on gas deliveries over the upcoming winter months. (AP Photo/Pavlo Palamarchuk) Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom resumed supplies to Ukraine on Monday, in a development that will help the country meet its energy...
