Section: Indonesia
A year of high-profile plane crashes
A TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a river outside the Taiwanese capital Taipei Wednesday, leaving at least 23 dead, the latest high-profile accident this year, especially in Asia. Despite several headline-grabbing crashes, 2014 continued a long-term trend of improving air safety, online accident database Aviation Safety Network said in...
Officials agree on measures in wake of aviation calamities
A United Nations agency is hoping to quickly introduce new measures to keep closer tabs on planes following last year’s disappearance of a flight in Asia and shooting down of a passenger plane in Europe.The International Civil Aviation Organization laid out a proposal Tuesday to improve the tracking of long-haul passenger flights by fall...
Death toll mounts in east Ukraine as US mulls arming Kiev
Fears grew Tuesday of an escalation in the mounting bloodshed in east Ukraine as the United States mulled arming Kiev and pro-Russian rebels ordered a mass mobilization. At least 16 civilians and five government troops were killed over the past 24 hours in fierce clashes across the conflict zone, government and pro-Russian rebel officials said....
China’s Xi hails India, Russia ties
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday hailed his country’s relations with India and Russia as Beijing looks to increase its heft on the global diplomatic stage. Twin visits by New Delhi’s foreign minister Sushma Swaraj and Sergei Lavrov from Moscow come on the heels of a high-profile trip to India by US President Barack Obama last...
Global officials meet on safety after aviation calamities
Government and aviation industry officials from dozens of countries are meeting in Montreal this week to try to find consensus on how to keep from losing airliners like the one that vanished in Asia and another shot down in Eastern Europe.It is only the second high-level safety conference in the 70-year history of the International Civil Aviation...
Immigrants could wait until 2019 to have cases resolved
Thousands of immigrants seeking legalization through the U.S. court system have had their hearings canceled and are being told by the government that it may be 2019 or later before their futures are resolved.Some immigration lawyers fear the delay will leave their clients at risk of deportation as evidence becomes dated, witnesses disappear,...
NATO units set for Baltics, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria
NATO said Friday it will deploy small units in six eastern European nations to help coordinate a spearhead force set up in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the units in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania will be the first of their kind there. Defense ministers from...
EU to extend existing Russia sanctions over Ukraine
The European Union extended by six months an existing set of sanctions against Russian and pro-Russia separatist officials because of the continued fighting in eastern Ukraine and was planning further action, officials said Thursday.”We have shown that the EU is ready to take further measures,” EU foreign affairs chief Federica...
Rights abuses fuelled rise of Islamic militants: HRW
Governments increasingly view human rights as “a luxury” they can ill afford, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, warning that abuses fuel crises in world trouble spots like Syria and Ukraine. Western powers, including the United States, are far from blameless and in some cases their wrongdoing has fed the very climate in which serial...
Malaysia Declares MH370 an ‘Accident’, Airline to Proceed With Compensation
Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia declared on Thursday the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 an accident, clearing the way for the airline to pay compensation to victims’ relatives while the search for the plane goes on. The Boeing 777 aircraft disappeared on March 8 last year, carrying 239 passengers and crew shortly after taking off...
