Section: Malaysia
Germany hopes for humanitarian solution for jailed Ukrainian pilot
MOSCOW (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday he hoped a humanitarian solution could be found for Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko who was on Tuesday sentenced to 22 years in jail by a Russian court. …read more Source: The...
Murdered journalist buried in Ukraine 16 years after beheading
KIEV (Reuters) – An investigative journalist whose murder 16 years ago helped precipitate Ukraine’s Orange Revolution was buried in Kiev on Tuesday after a delay due to his mother’s unwillingness to accept his decapitated body was her son. …read more Source: The...
Murdered journalist buried in Ukraine 16 years after beheading
KIEV (Reuters) – An investigative journalist whose murder 16 years ago helped precipitate Ukraine’s Orange Revolution was buried in Kiev on Tuesday after a delay due to his mother’s unwillingness to accept his decapitated body was her son. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine's finance minister says ready to lead technocrat government
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko threw her hat into the ring on Tuesday to head a technocrat government of people uncompromised by “a political past” after weeks of speculation over whether she would try to replace Arseny Yatseniuk. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine's finance minister says ready to lead technocrat government
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said on Tuesday that she was ready to form a government of technocrats that would be free from the influence of politicians and oligarchs. …read more Source: The...
Only Putin can decide whether to trade jailed pilot with Ukraine – Ifax
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Only President Vladimir Putin can decide whether Russia will trade convicted Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko with Kiev, the Interfax news agency cited the Kremlin as saying on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine's Poroshenko condemns Savchenko 'kangaroo court'
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine will never recognise the sentencing of Nadezhda Savchenko by a Russian “kangaroo court”, President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday after the Ukrainian pilot was handed a 22-year jail sentence. …read more Source: The...
Russian court finds Ukrainian pilot Savchenko guilty
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court ruled on Tuesday that Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko was guilty of complicity in killing two Russian journalists and said that she will be given a custodial sentence. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine to call up 10,000 soldiers in new mobilisation drive
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military will call up some 10,000 men and seek volunteers to replace some of the 45,000 soldiers who are due to return home after more than a year on the front lines in the separatist east, President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
Trump outlines isolationist policy and advisor team
WASHINGTON DC: White House hopeful Donald Trump outlined Monday a starkly isolationist stance and a advisory team drawn from the energy industry and the wilder fringes of Washington’s foreign policy establishment. Trump, who is closing in on the Republican presidential nomination, had been under pressure to name a foreign policy team, amid...
