Section: Malaysia
Ukraine tightens control over foreign charter flights
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine has tightened control over foreign charter flights for security reasons, the infrastructure ministry said on Sunday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine leaves sabotaged power lines to Russian-annexed Crimea in mud
CHAPLINKA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Five days after saboteurs blew up power lines in southern Ukraine plunging Russian-annexed Crimea into an energy crisis, all four damaged pylons are out of action and engineers say they need a political decision to restore supplies. …read more Source: The...
Russia-Ukraine row over Crimea escalates as Moscow cuts coal to Kiev
KIEV (Reuters) – Russia has begun to restrict coal supplies to Ukraine, Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn told parliament on Friday, days after the Kremlin threatened to punish Kiev for a power blackout of Russian-annexed Crimea. …read more Source: The...
Ten EU nations say Nord Stream gas extension not in EU interests
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Russia’s plans to extend its gas link to Germany run counter to EU interests and risk further destabilising Ukraine, 10 European governments said in a letter to the European Commission that called for a summit-level debate on the issue. …read more Source: The...
Britain’s Fury much to prove against heavyweight champion Klitschko
© DPA/AFP/File / by Ryland James | Ukraine’s Wladimir Klitschko (L) and Britain’s Tyson Fury pose during a press conference on November 24, 2015 in Duesseldorf, western Germany, ahead of their fight for the WBA, WBO and IBF titles BERLIN: Tyson Fury faces the acid test of his boasts that he will end Wladimir Klitschko’s...
MH17 victims to get Dutch memorial at Schiphol
THE HAGUE: A forest is to be planted in a park close to Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport to commemorate the victims of downed flight MH17, the organisation representing victims’ families announced Thursday. The national monument will comprise 298 trees, one for each of the victims of the ill-fated flight, the MH17 Disaster Foundation said...
Power blackouts test loyalty to Kremlin in Russian-annexed Crimea
SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (Reuters) – Power blackouts in Crimea orchestrated by anti-Russian saboteurs are stirring discontent a year and a half after Moscow seized the peninsula from Ukraine, threatening to chip away at the pro-Kremlin euphoria many Crimeans felt after annexation. …read more Source: The...
Khodorkovsky says Russia's Putin and West want rapprochement
LONDON (Reuters) – Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin wants to edge Russia towards a rapprochement with the West after a stand-off over Ukraine brought relations between the two sides to their lowest since the Cold War, former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
What are the implications of Turkey downing Russian jet?
LONDON: NATO member Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet on its border with Syria on Tuesday, raising concerns over the potential for a further escalation in the more-than- four-year Syrian conflict. Ankara says the plane violated Turkish airspace, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has insisted the jet was over Syria at the time of the...
Experts pore over evidence of downed MH17
AMSTERDAM: A team that includes Dutch and Ukrainian investigators have begun examining evidence from the MH17 Malaysia Airlines flight that was downed in eastern Ukraine in July 2014, killing all on board, Dutch prosecutors said on Tuesday. Two thirds of the 298 people travelling on the aircraft when it crashed, were Dutch. The Dutch Safety Board...
