Section: Free Malaysia Today (Malaysia)
Australia, Britain tell Putin to stop being a bully
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday told Vladimir Putin to stop bullying smaller states as Australian counterpart Tony Abbott accused the Russian leader of trying to relive the “lost glories of tsarism”. The Russian president is due to arrive in Brisbane for the G20 summit at a time of heightened tension with host Australia,...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ gang sows terror in Moscow
MOSCOW: Russia has been hunting a mysterious gang that has terrorised Moscow motorists in recent months with a series of murders resembling the violent video game Grand Theft Auto. The gang — swiftly dubbed the GTA gang by Russian media after the video game that involves scoring points for murders — is believed to have killed some 15 people. In...
Armenia vows ‘grave consequences’ after helicopter downed
BAKU: Armenia threatened ‘grave consequences’ Wednesday after Azerbaijani forces shot down a military helicopter, sparking fears of a major escalation in the conflict over the disputed region of Nagorny Karabakh. The downing of the helicopter belonging to the army of the breakaway ethnic Armenian region is the most serious incident on the...
MH17: Human remains found at site but no wreckage recovery
KIEV: Dutch forensic experts recovered further human remains at the crash site of downed flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, but said they could not yet start salvaging the wreckage. “A small team has recovered body parts at the site after pieces of the wreckage were lifted with a crane,” the Dutch defence ministry said in a statement....
Where are the bodies, MH17 families ask
AMSTERDAM: Daisy Oehlers and Bryce Fredriksz, a Dutch couple in their early 20s, were sitting near the left wing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on their way to a holiday in Bali, when “high energy objects” – as officials later called them – struck the plane over eastern Ukraine. Their bodies were torn apart and scattered across miles of the...
No ‘shirtfronting’ as Putin, Abbott urge quicker MH17 probe
BEIJING: President Vladimir Putin and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday urged a quicker probe into the MH17 crash but the two leaders appeared to avoid diplomatic butting of heads, the Kremlin said. Abbott had famously vowed to “shirtfront” Putin — an Australian Rules football term in which a player charges an opponent — over the...
Putin accuses Kiev forces of stalling MH17 probe
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday said that the investigation of the MH17 crash site is stalling due to Kiev’s constant shelling of the rebel-controlled area in eastern Ukraine. Putin told Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak that rebels were not hindering access to the site of the Malaysia Airlines crash, in which 298...
Tough questions linger for Russia over MH17 disaster
KIEV: Nearly four months after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down in eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people, the disaster remains highly controversial as the Netherlands on Monday holds a memorial ceremony for the dead. The facts The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 disappeared from radar screens at 1320 GMT on July 17 over territory controlled...
Netherlands marks MH17 victims with memorial ceremony
AMSTERDAM: The Netherlands was on Monday to hold a national memorial ceremony for the 298 people who died when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot out of the sky over war-torn east Ukraine in July. Flags flew at half mast across the country and at Dutch diplomatic missions abroad ahead of a commemoration in Amsterdam to be attended by 1,600 of...
Obama leaves for China, Myanmar, Australia tour
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama departed for China on Sunday, on a trip meant to help allay Washington’s sometimes tense relations with Beijing. Obama left Washington in the pre-dawn hours en route to an air force base in Alaska, where his plane refueled before traveling on to Beijing. The US leader was accompanied on his eight-day trip,...
