Section: Malaysia
Malaysia Airlines takes next step on turnaround with Emirates deal
BERLIN: Malaysia Airlines has signed adeal to expand a partnership with Emirates airline, which willalso see it exit some loss-making European routes as part of aturnaround drive under new Chief Executive Christoph Mueller. The two airlines have signed a code share deal that willallow Malaysia customers to book routes to Europe with...
U.S Vice President Biden to address Ukraine's legislature
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will address Ukraine’s legislature on Tuesday as part of a two-day visit to the country, a senior administration official said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine will not back down from trade deal with the EU – Poroshenko
VILNIUS (Reuters) – Ukraine will not back away from implementing a free trade agreement with the European Union on 1 January, 2016, despite Russian protests and threats of sanctions, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
Russia unlikely to meet Ukraine peace deal deadline, NATO says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO’s top commander warned on Wednesday there was little chance that Russia would meet a year-end deadline for a peace deal in eastern Ukraine, saying the calmer situation there did not mean the end of the conflict was near. …read more Source: The...
Montenegro invited to join Nato despite Russian ire
BRUSSELS: Nato invited Montenegro on Wednesday to become the 29th member of the US-led military alliance, defying Russian warnings it would be a provocation and threat to stability in Europe. The invitation to the small Balkan country comes with the West at loggerheads with Moscow over a host of issues, as Nato has responded to the Ukraine crisis...
Focus on IS, Obama tells Russia, Turkey
LE BOURGET, France: US President Barack Obama (pix) led calls Tuesday for Turkey and Russia to end their dispute over the downing of a Russian fighter jet and focus instead on the real enemy – Islamic State jihadists. It came as Obama’s Pentagon chief said the US would increasingly rely on special operations forces to battle IS fighters in...
No deal at Ukraine, Russia, EU trade talks – officials
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union, Russia and Ukraine did not reach a deal at three-way trade talks in Brussels on Tuesday, EU officials said, in the latest effort to overcome Moscow’s opposition to an EU-Ukraine trade pact that is due to take effect in January. …read more Source: The...
Obama and Putin discuss Syria, Ukraine at summit – White House official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the sidelines of the climate summit in Paris on Monday and discussed the Syrian crisis as well as the situation in Ukraine, a White House official said. …read more Source: The...
Dutch policeman held for online sale of MH17 ‘souvenirs’
THE HAGUE: Dutch police have suspended an officer who tried to sell online souvenirs said to have come from the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 shot down over war-torn Ukraine last year. The man is under arrest for embezzlement and an investigation has been launched and the man is under arrest for embezzlement, police said in a...
Dutch policeman held for online sale of MH17 ‘souvenirs’
THE HAGUE: Dutch police have suspended an officer who tried to sell online souvenirs said to have come from the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 shot down over war-torn Ukraine last year. The man is under arrest for embezzlement and an investigation has been launched and the man is under arrest for embezzlement, police said in a...
