Section: New Straits Times (Malaysia)
Dutch Safety Board set to say MH17 downed by Russian-made missile, but not point finger
AMSTERDAM: The Dutch Safety Board, issuing long-awaited findings on Tuesday of its investigation into the crash of a Malaysian passenger plane over eastern Ukraine, is expected to say it was downed by a Russian-made Buk missile but not say who was responsible for firing it. …read more Source: New Straits...
Street artists give Kiev colourful makeover
KIEV: In a mural splashed across a four-story building in central Kiev, a small boy nonchalantly throws paper planes. …read more Source: New Straits...
Five-nation treaty for tribunal over downed flight MH17 underway
NEW YORK: Malaysia may sign a treaty with four other nations to set up an independent tribunal to try people responsible for last year’s downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: New Straits...
Ukraine helicopter pilot slams ‘lies’ as murder trial starts in Russia
DONETSK, (Russia) : Ukrainian airforce helicopter pilot Nadiya Savchenko on Tuesday blasted Russian prosecution ‘lies’ against her at the start of a trial over the murder of two journalists that has caused outrage in Kiev and the West. …read more Source: New Straits...
Broken lavatories force MAS flight MH19 to land in Chennai
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines said one of its jets made an unscheduled landing in India on Thursday due to broken lavatories while flying the same route as flight MH17, which was shot down over Ukraine last year. …read more Source: New Straits...
Norwich signs Mbokani on loan
LONDON: Norwich have signed DR Congo striker Dieumerci Mbokani from Dynamo Kiev on a season-long loan, the Premier League side announced on Monday. …read more Source: New Straits...
Ukrainian film director receives sentence for “terrorist attacks”
MOSCOW: A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov to 20 years in a high-security penal colony for “terrorist attacks” in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in April 2014, RIA news agency said. …read more Source: New Straits...
Ukraine reports heaviest fighting since Minsk truce
KIEV: Kiev on Thursday said two soldiers had been killed in the heaviest clashes since the signing of a February truce deal with pro-Russian insurgents in Ukraine’s separatist east. …read more Source: New Straits...
Ukraine bid to shut out Russia with border ‘wall’ falters
SENKIVKA: A freshly-dug anti-tank ditch running along a short stretch of metal fence topped with barbed wire marks the start of a new border defence that Ukraine hopes will protect it from Russia. …read more Source: New Straits...
Ukrainian hackers accused of making US$100M on stolen news releases
NEWARK: Federal prosecutors say Ukrainian hackers worked with securities traders to make US$30 million by breaking into the computer systems of companies that publish news releases about mergers and acquisitions. …read more Source: New Straits...
