Section: Malaysia
Ukraine says could suspend arms withdrawals from east after rebel attacks
KIEV (Reuters) – The Ukrainian government will stop withdrawing light weapons from the frontline of its war against separatists in the east if the pro-Russian rebels continue to violate a ceasefire, a senior security official said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine risks losing foreign support over reform delay, PM says
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine risks losing the support of its Western backers if squabbles between the government and parliament delay or derail its reform efforts, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine probes ‘sniper attack’ on top prosecutor
KIEV: Ukraine on Tuesday launched a criminal probe into an alleged sniper attack on a top prosecutor who had been probing President Petro Poroshenko’s main political and business foes. The reported assassination bid would mark yet another unwanted political conflict in a crisis-hit country whose 18-month eastern pro-Russian revolt has...
Russia – impolite to begin U.N. chief race without Ukraine, others
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia said on Tuesday it does not want to offend Ukraine and other recently elected United Nations Security Council members by officially launching the race for a new secretary-general before the Jan. 1 start of their council terms. …read more Source: The...
Bodies of crash victims arrive in Russia
Head of air transport agency says the aircraft disintegrated in the air while flying at a high altitude Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations employees prepare to load the bodies of the victims from the ministry’s plane at the airport in St Petersburg. — AFP photo A woman reacts in central Saint Petersburg as people gather to light...
UN body calls for Malaysia’s Anwar to be freed: Family
KUALA LUMPUR: A UN body has determined that former Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been jailed in violation of international law and called for his immediate release, according to a copy of the opinion released Monday by his family. Anwar, 68, was jailed in February for five years after being convicted for sodomising a male aide. He...
Family: UN body calls for Anwar to be freed
KUALA LUMPUR: A UN body has determined that former Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been jailed in violation of international law and called for his immediate release, according to a copy of the opinion released Monday by his family. Anwar, 68, was jailed in February for five years after being convicted for sodomising a male aide. He...
Bodies of Egypt crash victims arrive in Russia
SAINT PETERSBURG: A plane carrying the remains of 144 people killed when a Russian airliner crashed in Egypt landed in Saint Petersburg early on Monday, hours after investigators probing the doomed flight said it had broken up in the air. The emergency Russian plane, the first to bring back the bodies of those who died when the A-321 plummeted...
Bodies of Egypt crash victims arrive in Russia
SAINT PETERSBURG: A plane carrying the remains of 144 people killed when a Russian airliner crashed in Egypt landed in Saint Petersburg early on Monday, hours after investigators probing the doomed flight said it had broken up in the air. The emergency Russian plane, the first to bring back the bodies of those who died when the A-321 plummeted...
Russia mourns victims of crashed Egypt plane
SAINT PETERSBURG: Flags flew at half-mast in Russia on Sunday as the country mourned its worst air disaster after a jetliner full of Russian tourists crashed in Egypt, killing all 224 on board. The flight had been bringing holidaymakers back to Saint Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city, when it disappeared off radar screens while over...
