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Ukrainian pilot, seven Afghans killed in civilian helicopter crash in Slovakia – ministry
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – A Ukrainian civilian helicopter that illegally entered Slovak airspace and crashed on Wednesday killed eight people aboard including a Ukrainian pilot and five men and two women from Afghanistan, the interior ministry said on Saturday. …read more Source: The...
Five soldiers killed in east, highest toll in two months – Ukraine military
KIEV (Reuters) – Five Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the past 24 hours during fighting in the east of Ukraine, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday, its highest death toll since a fragile ceasefire with pro-Russian separatists began two months ago. …read more Source: The...
Seven dead in Slovakia in crash of helicopter possibly people
BRATISLAVA: A helicopter flown from Ukraine possibly smuggling migrants crashed in a remote part of eastern Slovakia, killing at least seven people, authorities said Friday. Slovakian police believe the flight was carrying illegal migrants over the European Union’s outer border, Interior Ministry spokesman Ivan Netik told dpa. The number of...
Russian artist held for torching security service HQ door
MOSCOW: Russian authorities on Monday detained a political performance artist best known for nailing his scrotum to Red Square after he torched the doors to the headquarters of the FSB security service, the successor to the KGB. Pyotr Pavlensky set fire to the wooden doors of the sprawling FSB building in downtown Moscow around 1am (Monday 6am...
Ukraine, separatists report rise in eastern fighting
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military and pro-Russian separatists accused each other on Wednesday of escalating violence in eastern Ukraine in defiance of a ceasefire deal, as Ukraine reported one of its soldiers killed in a direct attack. …read more Source: The...
Military jet crashes in Ukraine, killing pilot
A Soviet-designed Su-25 jet aircraft crashed in south-eastern Ukraine on Wednesday during a training exercise, killing its pilot, the Ukrainian military said. The incident took place at around 0800 GMT (4pm MYT) in the Zaporizhya region, about 450km from Kiev, a defence ministry spokesman said, without specifying the cause of the crash…....
Fears of new flareup in Ukraine as violence grows on frontline
PISKY, Ukraine: It’s been only two months since Yelena Krivonos stopped sleeping in her cellar to hide from shelling, but now that violence has ticked up in eastern Ukraine she is headed back underground. “Combat has begun again,” the 31-year-old mother of two said after taking warm clothing for herself and her children to the...
MH17 families plan Dutch memorial for victims
THE HAGUE: The families who lost loved ones in the shooting down of flight MH17 Saturday began voting on where to build a national memorial in the Netherlands to honour the dead. Three proposals were unveiled Saturday for monuments to remember the 298 people, mostly Dutch nationals, killed in the 2014 air disaster. Dutch-led investigators...
US defence chief warns of conflict in S. China Sea
SIMI VALLEY: US defence secretary Ashton Carter on Saturday warned that land reclamation efforts and a military build-up in the South China Sea could lead to conflict between nations in the region. Speaking at a defence forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, the Pentagon chief also said America was adapting its military...
MH17 families plan Dutch memorial for victims
THE HAGUE: The families who lost loved ones in the shooting down of flight MH17 Saturday began voting on where to build a national memorial in the Netherlands to honour the dead. Three proposals were unveiled Saturday for monuments to remember the 298 people, mostly Dutch nationals, killed in the 2014 air disaster. Dutch-led investigators...
