Section: New Straits Times (Malaysia)
MH17: Dutch expert suspended after showing victim photos
THE HAGUE: A Dutch expert helping to identify victims from last year’s MH17 airliner crash in Ukraine has been suspended after showing photographs of the dead at a public lecture, police said Thursday. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: Many human remains found at crash site
THE HAGUE: Dutch investigators have recovered “many” more body parts and pieces of wreckage after resuming their search at the MH17 plane crash site in Ukraine, the Netherlands said today. …read more Source: New Straits...
Russia says IS is greatest enemy, not US
MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today that the Islamic State group was Moscow’s greatest enemy, notwithstanding the strained relations with the United States over the Ukraine conflict. …read more Source: New Straits...
Russia’s vast Arctic gas project aims to avoid Ukraine deep freeze
SABETTA: Spread across the frozen whiteness of the Russian Arctic, the ambitious $27 billion Yamal gas megaproject aims to defy both the extreme temperatures and the Ukraine crisis impacting its funding. …read more Source: New Straits...
Prosecuting those responsible for MH17 crash key priority: Dutch minister
THE HAGUE: Prosecuting those responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers and crew – 193 of them Dutch – is a key priority for the Netherlands, the justice minister said Thursday. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: Police to deploy forensic team to Donetsk
CYBERJAYA: Police will deploy its forensic team to Donetsk, Ukraine on Saturday to resume recovery operation into the downing of flight MH17 in July. …read more Source: New Straits...
Soros says ready to invest US$1bil in Ukraine if West helps
VIENNA: Billionaire financier George Soros is ready to invest US$1 billion in Ukraine, if Western countries help private investment there. He also put the odds of Greece leaving the euro at a third, in an interview with Austrian newspaper Der Standard. …read more Source: New Straits...
Barcelona fullback Alba sidelined for 10 days
BARCELONA: Barcelona fullback Jordi Alba will be out of action for around 10 days after sustaining a leg muscle injury in Spain’s 1-0 Euro 2016 qualifying win over Ukraine on Friday. …read more Source: New Straits...
Bus hits landmine, 4 dead, 21 injured
KIEV: Four people were killed and 21 injured when a passenger bus hit a landmine near a government-controlled town in eastern Ukraine, local officials said today. …read more Source: New Straits...
Moscow could reignite Ukraine fighting: US diplomat
Washington: The United States fears that Moscow and pro-Russian separatists will reignite the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine following a February ceasefire that has largely held, a US diplomat warned Wednesday. …read more Source: New Straits...
