Section: Indonesia
Broken lavatories force Malaysia Airlines jet to land
Malaysia Airlines: A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737-800 passenger aircraft makes its final approach for landing at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang on Aug. 20. (AFP/Mohd Rasfan)Malaysia Airlines said one of its jets made an unscheduled landing in India on Thursday due to broken lavatories while flying the same route as flight...
World on track for warming ‘far above’ 2C target: Analysts
Data on national greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets and timetable of major climate negotiations this yearInadequate national targets for curbing climate-altering greenhouse gases meant emissions would be “far above” the level required to stave off disastrous global warming, analysts warned Wednesday.Instead of the UN-targeted...
‘Cure’ for Chernobyl children: sun, sea, clean air in Portugal
Anya wasn’t even born when Chernobyl exploded nearly 30 years ago, but even today its radioactive fallout stalks her and other Ukrainian youngsters growing up near the disused plant.The world’s worst nuclear disaster saddled the sparkly-eyed 16-year-old with chronic cardiovascular and respiratory problems, thanks to contamination that...
NATO opens training center in Georgia amid Russia tensions
Georgian soldiers stand in formation during the inauguration ceremony of the NATO-Georgian Joint Training and Evaluation Center at the Krtsanisi military training base, outside Tbilisi, on Thursday. NATO on Thursday opened a training center in Georgia as the ex-Soviet country eyes closer partnership with the Western military alliance amid...
Report into cause of MH17 crash to be published Oct. 13
The long-awaited conclusions of an international investigation into the cause of the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 will be published Oct. 13, the panel conducting the probe announced Thursday.The Dutch Safety Board, which is leading the civil investigation into the July 17, 2014, crash in eastern Ukraine that killed all 298 people on board...
Russian lawmaker wants Kerry sanctioned
A member of Russia’s upper house of parliament is calling for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his deputies to be placed on Moscow’s sanctions list.Igor Morozov, a member of the Federation Council’s foreign affairs committee, told the state news agency RIA-Novosti on Wednesday that the move would be retaliation for the...
Russia court jails Ukrainian filmmaker for ‘terrorism’
A Russian military court on Tuesday sentenced a Ukrainian filmmaker to 20 years in a prison colony on terror charges in a trial condemned by Kiev, Western rights groups and top film directors.Oleg Sentsov, 39, was convicted of masterminding arson attacks on pro-Kremlin party offices in Crimea after Russia seized the peninsula from Ukraine in...
Ukrainian filmmaker sentenced to 20 years by Russian court
Oleg Sentsov reacts as the verdict is delivered as he stands behind bars at a court in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Tuesday. A court in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don convicted Sentsov, a prominent Ukrainian filmmaker, of conspiring to commit terror attacks and sentenced him to 20 years in prison in what critics called a politically motivated show...
Russian air, ground forces on exercises in western regions
Russian air, ground and missile forces are conducting exercises in the western reaches of the country amid concerns that Moscow is pursuing an increasingly intimidating policy toward Europe.The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that 10 regiments equipped with Yars and Topol mobile ICBM launchers were on “combat patrol...
Credit scheme backfired, hiking greenhouse gases: Study
A global scheme meant to keep atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) levels in check instead caused some 600 million tons of excess emissions, researchers said Monday.They blamed a loophole in the Kyoto Protocol’s Joint Implementation (JI) mechanism which allowed countries to earn and sell credits for emissions cuts which were “not...
