Section: The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
Russia probes ‘selfie with dead’ online community
Russia is investigating an online community that urges members to post selfies with dead people and even offers cash prizes for the best shot, police told AFP on Monday.A police spokesman in the northern city of Syktyvkar told AFP they have opened an investigation into a community called “Selfie with the Deceased” on popular Russian...
US to increase military drone flights: Report
The US military will drastically increase drone flights over the next four years, in a bid to boost intelligence and strike capabilities across a growing number of conflict zones, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.The Pentagon is planning to expand the number of daily flights from 61 at present to as many as 90 by 2019, a senior defense...
Ukraine activists scrap gay pride parade after court ban
Gay rights activists in Ukraine have cancelled a planned pride parade Saturday in the port city of Odessa after a local court banned the event.”The decision of the court is illegal and violates our constitutional right of assembly,” Kyrylo Bodelan, a spokesman for the Odessa Pride group, told AFP.Bodelan said that the group would...
MH17 investigators find ‘possible’ BUK missile fragments
Investigators probing the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine said Tuesday they had identified pieces that “possibly” come from a Russian-made BUK missile, where the plane crashed.International and Dutch investigators are probing “several parts, possibly originating from a BUK surface-air-missile...
Pentagon guidelines on war coverage by journalists draw fire
The Pentagon is drawing fire for new legal guidelines that liken war correspondents to spies and says that in some instances they can be treated as “unprivileged belligerents.”The guidelines received little notice when they were published in June in the Defense Department’s new Law of War Manual, a compendium of legal advice for...
Ukraine artist creates Putin portrait with bullet shells
A young Ukrainian artist has captured global media attention by creating a striking portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin out of 5,000 bullet shells collected in the separatist east.Daria Marchenko’s “The Face of War” — a remarkably realistic and politically tinged depiction of Putin in a dark suit and red tie...
Russia begins destroying smuggled Western foods
Russia launched Thursday a controversial campaign to destroy tonnes of Western food from gourmet cheeses to fruit and vegetables smuggled into the crisis-hit country, defying a storm of criticism.President Vladimir Putin last week signed a decree ordering the incineration of all food that breaches a year-old embargo on Western imports imposed in...
MH17: Australia determined to seek justice, despite Russian veto
A woman with a small child look at a ‘hedge of compassion’, made of thousands of dolls found along the road and at Schiphol airport after the MH17 disaster, prior to a commemoration ceremony in Nieuwegein, near the central city of Utrecht, Netherlands, July 17. (AP/Michael Kooren)Australia remains determined to seek justice for the...
Russia expels Swedish diplomat, says it’s tit-for-tat move
Russia has expelled a Swedish diplomat in what it describes as a response to a similar Swedish move.The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that the move is a retaliatory measure to the “unfriendly action” against a Russian diplomat in Stockholm. It didn’t identify either diplomat or give any further details....
Suspected Flight 370 wing flap arrives at French facility
A key finding: A white van, accompanied by police motorcycles and a police car transporting what is believed to be debris from a Boeing 777 plane that washed up on an Indian Ocean island, on route to Direction Generale de L’armement (DGA) facilities in Balma, near Toulouse, south-western France, Saturday. A piece of plane wing that could be...
