Section: New Straits Times (Malaysia)
Ukraine’s president dismisses powerful regional governor
KIEV, Ukraine: Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko dismissed the billionaire governor of an eastern region Wednesday following a rancorous dispute pitting the tycoon against the government. …read more Source: New Straits...
Five-star Kiev end Everton’s bid to restore English pride
PARIS: Dynamo Kiev shattered Everton’s hopes of restoring English pride with a ruthless 5-2 demolition of the Premier League side in the Europa League last 16 this morning. …read more Source: New Straits...
Rescuers find 32 dead miners in east Ukraine mine
DONETSK: Rescuers found 32 bodies of miners in the Zasyadko mine in eastern Ukraine a day after a blast ripped through the shaft, a rebel official said today. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: Next of kin finally view wreckage of downed flight
GILZE-RIJEN AIR BASE, (Netherlands): Relatives of those killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed over eastern Ukraine visited a Dutch air base Tuesday to view the wreckage of the plane. …read more Source: New Straits...
China state media seen stepping-up anti-Western rhetoric
BEIJING: Western values are a “ticket to hell,” a newspaper published by China’s Communist Party said in a recent editorial that held up Ukraine and some Arab countries as examples of outside ideas causing turmoil. …read more Source: New Straits...
More than 6,000 killed in ‘merciless devastation’ in Ukraine
GENEVA: More than 6,000 people have been killed since violence erupted in Ukraine last April, the UN rights chief said Monday, decrying a “merciless devastation of civilian lives and infrastructure.” …read more Source: New Straits...
First day with no troops killed under Ukraine truce
KIEV/MAKIYVKA (UKRAINE): A long-awaited truce took hold at last in east Ukraine on Wednesday, with the army reporting no combat fatalities for the first time in weeks, but the news did nothing to halt a currency collapse that forced the central bank to ban most trading. …read more Source: New Straits...
Leaders agree new push to enforce Ukraine ceasefire
PARIS: The leaders of France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia agreed by telephone today to make a new push to impose a Feb 12 accord seeking to establish a ceasefire in Ukraine, President Francois Hollande’s office said in a statement. …read more Source: New Straits...
Ukraine military says shots fired but ceasefire observed
KIEV: Ukraine’s military said pro-Russian rebels had shelled Ukrainian positions ten times since a ceasefire came into effect at midnight, but that the truce was in general being observed. …read more Source: New Straits...
19 soldiers killed in Ukraine
KIEV: At least 19 soldiers have been killed in the latest fighting in east Ukraine, a Kiev defence official said, including five in a rocket attack on regional capital Kramatorsk. …read more Source: New Straits...
