Section: Free Malaysia Today (Malaysia)
Mother of German MH17 victim takes Ukraine to human rights court
BERLIN: The mother of a victim of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has begun legal proceedings against Ukraine at the European Court of Human Rights, accusing Kiev of failing to close the country’s airspace, a German daily reported Sunday. The woman, who lodged her complaint at the Strasbourg-based court “last week”, is suing Ukraine...
Malaysia Airlines apologises for ‘offensive’ promotion tweet
KUALA LUMPUR: Striken Malaysia Airlines apologised Saturday for a year-end promotion tweet that draw anger on twitter after it inadvertently drew parallels with the still-missing MH370 flight. “Want to go somewhere but don’t know where?” read the post on Twitter that was meant to promote special deals by the national carrier, prompting...
MH17 remains arrive in Netherlands from Ukraine
EINDHOVEN: Six more coffins carrying body parts of victims from downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived in the Netherlands from Ukraine on Friday, with nine victims of the July disaster still unidentified. A Dutch Air Force C-130 transport plane arrived at an airfield in the southern city of Eindhoven after leaving Kharkiv in eastern...
On Turkey trip, Pope to reach out to Islamic world
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis heads to Turkey on Friday with a brief to use his populist touch to rebuild bridges with the Islamic world that were damaged by his predecessor Benedict XVI. It will be the first papal visit to Turkey since the now-retired Benedict went there in 2006 against a backrop of anger in much of the Muslim world over comments...
No easy ‘plan B’ for Iran if nuclear talks with major powers collapse
VIENNA: Iranian officials say they can turn to Beijing and Moscow if talks in Vienna fail to end Western sanctions, but with oil prices falling, China’s economy slowing and Russia in its own sanctions-induced slump, Tehran’s “plan B” hardly looks ideal. Talks between Iran and six powers, which include China and Russia as well as the...
Adventures of European comet lander may not be over
BRUSSELS: The EU agreed to blacklist more Ukrainian separatists Monday but stopped short of fresh sanctions against Russia, saying there was hope of restarting dialogue with Moscow to end the worst standoff since the Cold War. New European Union diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini said foreign ministers meeting in Brussels had raised the...
Russian TV channel says photos show MH17 shot down by fighter jet
MOSCOW: Russian state-controlled TV has broadcast what it called “sensational” photographs, which it said supported Moscow’s theory that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet. Several commentators who have examined the photographs have described them as forgeries, however. The photographs, said to be taken...
MH17 wreckage removal starts in east Ukraine
GRABOVE: Workers started winching debris from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on to trucks in eastern Ukraine Sunday, paving the way for its eventual return to the Netherlands four months after it was downed, killing 298 people. A crew from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic — the pro-Moscow separatists who hold the territory —...
Russia plans alternative version of ‘Wikipedia’
MOSCOW: Russia plans to create its own “Wikipedia” to ensure its citizens have access to more “detailed and reliable” information about their country, the presidential library said on Friday. Citing Western threats, the Kremlin has asserted more control over the Internet this year in what critics call moves to censor the web, and has introduced...
G20 leaders face pressure to deliver on growth
BRISBANE: Australia made a last ditch call Sunday for the G20′s powerful leaders to use all policy levers to rehabilitate global economies and generate prosperity, which could see their target of two percent growth bettered. The world’s top industrial nations have vowed to boost their combined economic output by some two trillion dollars...
