Section: Malaysia
Russian, Austrian FMs discuss peacekeeping mission in Ukraine – RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday after meeting his Austrian counterpart Karin Kneissl that they had discussed the possibility of the deployment of a peacekeeping mission in east Ukraine, the RIA news agency reported. …read more Source: The...
U.S. tells Russia to address election concerns, chemical weapons
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House national security adviser John Bolton told Russia’s ambassador on Thursday that better relations between the two countries require addressing U.S. concerns on election meddling, chemical attack in Britain, and the situations in Ukraine and Syria, the White House said. …read more Source: The...
Rare glimpse of Assad family ties to Russia in kids' stay at seaside camp
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (Reuters) – News that Russia hosted the teenage children of Bashar al-Assad at a lavishly-rebuilt Black Sea summer camp in Crimea last year has given a rare glimpse into the personal lives of the Syrian president’s family and his close relationship to Moscow. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine moves to split church from Russia as elections approach
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Orthodox church could become independent of Moscow under the terms of a presidential initiative lawmakers approved on Thursday, a move that President Petro Poroshenko said would make it harder for Russia to meddle in Ukrainian affairs. …read more Source: The...
Assad's children visited Crimean holiday camp, Russian lawmaker says
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s children last year visited a holiday camp in Russian-annexed Crimea, the RIA news agency cited a Russian lawmaker as saying on Sunday. …read more Source: The...
OPCW confirms UK findings on nerve agent
File photo shows personel take photographs as they swab railings near a bench covered in a protective tent at The Maltings shopping centre in Salisbury, southern England. — AFP photo LONDON, United Kingdom: The world’s chemical arms watchdog yesterday said it had confirmed Britain’s findings that a nerve agent used in an attack on a...
Russian whistleblower ‘violently sick’ before he died: Mistress
LONDON: Russian whistleblower Alexander Perepilichny was violently sick in a luxury Paris hotel the night before he died in 2012 in Britain in unexplained circumstances, his Ukranian mistress told a court Wednesday. The 44-year-old businessman had been helping investment firm Hermitage Capital Management investigate a money-laundering operation...
Poland demands Russia return 2010 presidential jet wreckage
WARSAW: Poland’s President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday demanded that Russia hand over the wreckage of a 2010 presidential plane crash that has stoked friction with Moscow and divisions at home as Warsaw marked eight years since the disaster. President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria were among the 96 people who died in the crash in Smolensk,...
Indonesia seizes alleged ‘slave ship’ wanted by Interpol
JAKARTA: Indonesia seized an alleged “slave ship” following a dramatic high seas chase sparked by an Interpol alert after the vessel escaped capture in China and Mozambique, authorities said Tuesday. Interpol tipped off Indonesian authorities that the stateless STS-50, a vessel with a notorious maritime rap sheet, would be entering...
Ukraine to impose sanctions on Russian oligarchs – president
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine will impose sanctions on Russian oligarchs including Oleg Deripaska, following the lead of penalties ordered by the United States, President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
