Section: Malaysia
Ukraine reports heaviest shelling by eastern rebels since February
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine accused pro-Russian rebels on Monday of carrying out the heaviest artillery attacks on government positions in six months and warned of signs the conflict was escalating despite a ceasefire deal. …read more Source: The...
Russia, Ukraine, EU to hold gas talks at end-August – Ukraine minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Russia, Ukraine and the European Commission will hold trilateral talks about the supply of natural gas at the end of August in Vienna, Ukrainian Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchshyn told a briefing on Monday. …read more Source: The...
Attackers torch four OSCE vehicles in Donetsk
DONETSK, Ukraine: OSCE observers based in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine said Sunday that four of their vehicles were torched outside their hotel in an apparent arson attack. The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s special monitoring mission to Ukraine wrote in a Tweet: “4 OSCE armoured...
Four OSCE cars torched in separatist east Ukraine
KIEV (Reuters) – Four armoured vehicles belonging to the OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine’s eastern conflict zone were destroyed overnight, the security watchdog said Sunday, describing the apparent arson attack as an attempt to restrict its work. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine slaps broadcast ban on 13 Russian artists
KIEV: Ukraine on Saturday named 13 pro-Russian actors and singers whose work would be banned from TV, radio and cinema, including France’s Gerard Depardieu. The blacklist issued by the ministry of culture described the 13 as “a threat to national security” for supporting President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea and...
At least 12 killed as Mali hotel siege finally ends
BAMAKO: At least 12 people including four foreign UN contractors died in a hostage siege at a hotel in central Mali that ended early Saturday when government troops stormed the building. “There are 12 dead in all,” an army officer told AFP after the operation at the Hotel Byblos in Sevare, listing the fatalities as five...
In letter to Obama, US scientists praise Iran nuclear deal
WASHINGTON: More than two dozen top US scientists, among them nuclear researchers and Nobel prize winners, in a letter to President Barack Obama on Saturday praised the Iran nuclear deal as major security achievement, The New York Times reported. The two-page letter, from some of the world’s most knowledgeable nuclear experts, could prove...
Hostages killed in Mali hotel siege from South Africa, Russia, Ukraine
BAMAKO (Reuters) – The three hostages killed during a siege of a hotel in Mali used by United Nations staff were from South Africa, Russia and Ukraine, a Malian military spokesman said on Saturday. …read more Source: The...
South Africans, Russian and Ukrainian freed in Mali hotel siege
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Four United Nations contractors, including two South Africans, a Russian and a Ukrainian, were freed when security forces stormed a hotel in central Mali being held by suspected Islamist militants, a spokeswoman for Mali’s U.N. mission MINUSMA said. …read more Source: The...
Five foreigners rescued in Mali hotel siege
BAMAKO: A “number” of people held by gunmen during a standoff at a hotel in central Mali have been freed overnight and at least five foreigners evacuated from the site, according to Malian military sources. “We cannot say that everything is finished, but a number of hostages” were freed by Malian forces deployed around the...
