Section: The Indian Express (India)
Russia’s UN draft on MH17 crash does not call for tribunal
An Orthodox cross with a sign reading Save and Guard is placed at the site of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane, near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 16, 2015. (Source: AP) Russia has circulated a U.N. resolution demanding that those responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine last year...
A year after MH17, intelligence agencies reluctant to share threat data with pilots
Malaysia Airlines flight 17, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17 last year during fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatist rebels. (Source: AP photo) A year after the downing of MH17, Europe’s intelligence agencies remain reluctant to share information that might help...
New footage of crashed Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight emerges
FILE PHOTO: MH17 crash site in Ukraine. (Source: AP) A new footage emerged on Friday reportedly showing pro-Russian rebels at the scene of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash last year in eastern Ukraine after they realised they had shot down a commercial airliner. The video exclusively obtained by News Corp Australia shows the Ukrainian...
Australia memorializes victims of MH17 shot down over Ukraine
A cross with a sign reading Save and Guard is placed at the site of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane, near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 16, 2015. (Source: AP) Tearful relatives of several Australians who were flying on the Malaysian jetliner that was shot down over eastern Ukraine a year ago gathered for a...
Video: 23 Russian soldiers killed in military barracks collapse
“All 42 soldiers who were under the rubble have been found. Twenty-three of them are dead,” said defence ministry spokesman. (Screengrab) Twenty-three Russian soldiers were crushed to death by rubble after their military barracks collapsed in Siberia, the Russian defence ministry said on Monday. All four floors collapsed in one section of the...
China hacks into everything that doesn’t move: Hillary Clinton
FILE PHOTO | Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, Thursday, June 18, 2015, in Las Vegas. (Source: AP) In a scathing attack, Democratic presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton has accused China of “hacking into everything that doesn’t move” in...
Russia and US agree on Iran nuclear deal for most part
FILE- US Secretary of State John Kerry, right, meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva. (Source: AP) Russia-US relations are at a post-Cold War low just about everywhere, except at the Iran nuclear talks. Despite a chill over the Ukraine crisis that has spread to almost every element of their relationship, Moscow and...
Tunisia weighs new security approach as tourists flee after Islamic State attack
Tunisian army soldiers guard the street near the attacked Imperial Marhaba hotel in Sousse, Tunisia. (Source: AP) Thousands of tourists fled from Tunisia on Saturday after the country’s worst terrorist attack killed 38 people — including 15 Britons — as the government struggles to prevent future jihadi attacks against the all-important...
Vladimir Putin calls Barack Obama, discuss Ukraine, IS, Iran: White House
Russian President Vladimir Putin with US President Barack Obama (file photo) WASHINGTON (AP) The White House says Russian President Vladimir Putin called President Barack Obama and discussed continued tensions in eastern Ukraine and the fight against the Islamic State in the Middle East. In a statement, the White House said the two leaders...
NATO fears return of intense fighting in Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, second right, speaks with Ukraine’s Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak, second left, during a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday. (Source: AP) NATO says there’s a risk of a return to heavy fighting this summer in eastern Ukraine, and is blaming...
