Section: Malaysia
Syria and Ukraine: two fronts in Russian war for influence
BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia’s air strikes in Syria are in part designed to extract concessions from the West over Ukraine by making Moscow a key player in any attempts by world powers to hammer out a post-conflict settlement in Damascus, some Western officials believe. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine to hold investor presentations on debt restructuring
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine will hold three investor presentations on the main features of a debt restructuring deal it is asking bondholders to approve, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
US assures Asia of strong ties amid regional threats
Obama speaks at the Leaders’ Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Flanking Obama are UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. John Kerry sits behind Obama. — Reuters photo NEW YORK: The United States took a moment Tuesday to gather the...
Ukraine, rebels agree to full small weapons withdrawal
Kiev and pro-Russian insurgents struck a vital agreement on Wednesday to withdraw their entire arsenal of smaller weapons from the buffer zone splitting eastern rebel-held lands from the rest of Ukraine. International monitors said the two sides’ February commitment to pull back heavy weapons from the 500km line separating their forces...
Australia to bid for UN Security Council seat
SYDNEY: Australia will bid to rejoin the United Nations Security Council by the end of the next decade, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in a statement on Wednesday. Bishop said Australia, whose last two-year term ended in December 2014, would promote greater international cooperation to tackle global security challenges in its bid for a...
Ukraine leader mocks Russia’s call for anti-terrorism coalition
UNITED NATIONS: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday derided Russia’s call for the creation of an international antiterrorism coalition, saying the Russians inspire terrorism on their own doorstep and back bellicose puppet governments. Russian President Putin on Monday called for the creation of a broad international coalition to...
US gathers great Asian democracies to its side
NEW YORK: The United States took a moment Tuesday to gather the great Asian democracies to its side to reassure them of the strength of their ties in the face of North Korean threats and an assertive China. New threats from Pyongyang, ominous economic signals and China’s aggressive stance on its territorial claims in the South China Sea and...
Obama, Kazakhstan's Nazarbayev discuss non-proliferation, Ukraine – White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev discussed nuclear non-proliferation and the conflict in Ukraine at a meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, the White House said in a statement. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine leader mocks Russia's call for anti-terrorism coalition
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday derided Russia’s call for the creation of an international antiterrorism coalition, saying the Russians inspire terrorism on their own doorstep and back bellicose puppet governments. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine, rebels agree to broaden weapons withdrawal
MINSK (Reuters) – Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists have agreed to extend a pull-back of weapons in east Ukraine to include tanks and smaller weapons systems, the OSCE’s representative at peace talks, Martin Sajdik, said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
