Section: The Jakarta Globe (Indonesia)
Burning Wreckage, Bodies Scattered After Malaysian Airliner Crashes in Ukraine
[Updated at 12:10 a.m. on Friday, July 18, 2014] Grabovo, Ukraine. Dozens of bodies were scattered around the smoldering wreckage of a passenger jet that crashed in a field in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, a Reuters reporter said. An emergency services rescue worker said at least 100 bodies had so far been found at the scene, near the village of...
Ukraine Tycoon Pleads For City’s Safety After Rebels Vow to Make Stand
Ukraine’s richest man pleaded with the government on Monday not to bomb Donetsk, a city of a million people where hundreds of heavily armed pro-Russian rebels have vowed to make a stand after losing control of their bastion in the town of Slaviansk. The Kiev government has said it will act quickly to seize back more territory from rebels...
China Seeks Great Power Status After Centuries of Sea Retreat
Chinese navy sailors stand in formation as they attend a send-off ceremony before departing for the Rim of the Pacific exercise, at a military port in Sanya, Hainan province on June 9, 2014. (Reuters Photo) Admiral Zheng He is everywhere in China these days, even though he died almost 600 years ago. The government is promoting him to remind its...
EU Signs Trade Pact With Ukraine, Ceasefire Extended By 72 Hours
The European Union signed an historic free-trade pact with Ukraine on Friday and warned it could impose more sanctions on Moscow unless pro-Russian rebels act to wind down the crisis in the east of the country by Monday. Shortly after returning to Kiev from Brussels where he signed the pact, Poroshenko announced on his website that Ukraine had...
