Section: Malaysia
Hungary’s anti-immigrant PM faces workforce shortage
BUDAPEST: A population slump in Hungary is presenting Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s anti-immigration government with a headache: how to plug labour supply shortages without turning to foreigners. Hungary, an EU member since 2004, has seen 400,000 people leave the country since 2008, and 850,000 over the past 35 years. In addition, since the...
Spain arrests Ukrainians, Russians accused of crime syndicate links
MADRID (Reuters) – Eleven people of primarily Ukrainian and Russian origin were arrested on Tuesday in Barcelona accused of connections with organised crime and money laundering, the Spanish anti-corruption prosecutor’s office said. …read more Source: The...
US envoy Kerry plans trip to Moscow
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry will make his latest trip to Moscow this week to seek common ground on how to deal with the ongoing bloodshed in Syria. The State Department said Kerry would speak with senior Russian officials about Syria and Ukraine, as well as tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorny-Karabakh region....
Obama visits Spain on symbolic but curtailed trip
MADRID: Barack Obama wrapped up a lightning visit to Spain on Sunday, an abbreviated first presidential trip to the country overshadowed by the fatal shooting of five police officers in Dallas. Obama squeezed in the trip after a key NATO summit, before dashing home to deal with the aftermath of the wrenching attack. Greeting Spain King Felipe at...
Moscow blasts Nato focus on ‘non-existent’ Russia threat
MOSCOW: Moscow on Sunday slammed Nato for focusing on a “non-existent” threat from Russia at a leaders summit in Warsaw that saw fears over the Kremlin’s expansionism high on the agenda. “A preliminary analysis of the results of the meeting shows that Nato continues to exist in some sort of military-political looking-glass...
NATO's Stoltenberg tells Russia to stop backing rebels in east Ukraine
WARSAW (Reuters) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Saturday called on Russia to end its “political, military and financial support for separatists” fighting Kiev troops in east Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
NATO's Stoltenberg tells Russia to stop backing rebels in east Ukraine
WARSAW (Reuters) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Saturday called on Russia to end its “political, military and financial support for separatists” fighting Kiev troops in east Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
UN air warning site to publish threats more quickly
MONTREAL: A UN website launched as part of a global response to the downing of a Malaysian airliner in 2014 will post warnings about potential attacks against aircraft more quickly but only when they come from the country where the threat originates. The UN’s civil aviation agency said on Friday that a country’s warnings about threats...
Spain confident of avoiding EU fines over budget rules
MADRID: Spain voiced confidence in its economic policies on Friday, a day after the European Commission declared it and its neighbour Portugal to be in violation of public spending rules. The European Union’s executive on Thursday accused the two eurozone members of moving too slowly towards meeting the EU’s deficit limit of...
Obama downplays Brexit impact at NATO summit
WARSAW: US President Barack Obama insisted Friday Brexit would not harm transatlantic unity but warned against a bitter divorce undermining security in the face of a resurgent Russia. Britain’s shock vote to leave the European Union dominated Obama’s final NATO summit, which comes at what he called the most critical time for the...
