Section: Malaysia
Kremlin calls absurd accusation it has designs on Ukrainian sea ports
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Monday called absurd a Ukrainian accusation it has designs on the Ukrainian ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk in order to create a land corridor between Russian-annexed Crimea and eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: The...
Merkel protege suggests reducing gas flow through Nord Stream 2 pipeline
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany must answer urgent, growing political concerns about the planned Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project given Russia’s seizure of three Ukrainian ships and their crew off the coast of Crimea, a senior German conservative said on Sunday. …read more Source: The...
Kremlin hopes for Putin – Trump talks by June
BUENOS AIRES: The Kremlin hopes that US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin can meet and hold talks before a G20 summit in Japan in June next year, a Kremlin aide said on Saturday. Trump cancelled a planned meeting with Putin at the G20 summit in Argentina this weekend citing unease over Russia’s Nov 25 seizure of...
Kremlin hopes Putin and Trump can hold talks before June next year
US President Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin shake hands at their first meeting, held on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Germany, July 7, 2017. (AFP pic)BUENOS AIRES: The Kremlin hopes that US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin can meet and hold talks before a G20 summit in Japan in June next...
Mattis says Russia tried to ‘muck around’ US vote, again
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is accusing Russia of having meddled in the 2018 midterm elections. (AFP pic)WASHINGTON: US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday that Russia tried to meddle in the US midterm elections last month — just as it did in the 2016 vote that brought President Donald Trump to power. The already strained ties between...
US and China in trade tariffs truce after tense G20 summit
The US and China brokered a truce over a dinner of steaks and Argentine wine in Buenos Aires. – AFP photo The United States and China on Saturday announced a ceasefire in their tariffs war, hours after US President Donald Trump upended another international forum by snubbing G20 action on trade disputes and climate change. Over a dinner of steaks...
For Poland’s mining region, coal remains a way of life
KNURÓW, Poland: “It’s a family thing. My father, my grandfather were miners, so I am,“ says Arkadiusz Wojcik at a coal mine in the southern Polish town of Knurow.Defying the danger to life and limb of descending into the mine on a daily basis, Poland’s coal miners still pass down the job from father to son. The occupation may be on...
Trump argues tariffs with Xi after tense G20 summit
BUENOS AIRES: US President Donald Trump sat down for a tariffs showdown over dinner with China’s leader Saturday after upending another international forum by snubbing G20 action on trade disputes and climate change.Trump and President Xi Jinping met in Buenos Aires, shortly after the annual summit of the world’s leading economic...
Putin says no discussion with Ukraine about release of sailors
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that there was no discussion with Ukraine about the possible release of the Ukrainian sailors who were seized along with their ships by Russia last month. …read more Source: The...
Merkel, Macron press Putin to free Ukrainian sailors
NEW YORK (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed Russian Vladimir Putin to release Ukrainian sailors who were seized along with their ships by Russia last month, Putin’s spokesman said. …read more Source: The...
