Section: Malaysia
Further conflict, debt dispute pose high risk to Ukraine recovery – IMF
KIEV(Reuters) – Further separatist conflict and the possibility of protracted debt restructuring talks still pose “exceptionally high” risks to Ukraine’s efforts to restore its financial stability, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
Russia slams Sweden over expelled diplomats
MOSCOW: Russia on Tuesday lashed out at Stockholm and confirmed it had expelled a Swedish diplomat in retaliation for the Scandinavian country turfing out one of Moscow’s diplomats. Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement that it had recently declared a Swedish diplomat “persona non grata” in a tit-for-tat move after...
Four killed as new Ukraine peace talks fall apart
KIEV: Ukraine on Monday reported the death of four soldiers in clashes with pro-Russian rebels that came just hours before another failed bid to negotiate an end to the 15-month separatist revolt. Military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said another 15 servicemen had been wounded in the past 24 hours of fighting across the eastern Russian-speaking...
Ukrainian casualties reported before peace talks
KIEV (Reuters) – Four Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 15 wounded in fighting with pro-Russian rebels in the past 24 hours just before talks on a ceasefire were due to start, the Ukrainian military said on Monday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine president accuses Putin of wanting ‘whole of Europe’
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday accused his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of wanting to take over the “whole of Europe” and potentially aiming his sights next at Finland and the Baltics. “Putin wants to go as far as we allow him – not only Ukraine, but the whole of Europe,” Poroshenko said in an...
MH370: Wing part arrives at French lab
PARIS: A piece of Boeing 777 wreckage washed up on an Indian Ocean island and suspected to belong to missing flight MH370 arrived Saturday at a French laboratory for analysis. If confirmed as being from the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight, the discovery would mark the first breakthrough in a case that has baffled aviation experts for 16 months....
MH370: Wing part arrives in France, link to be investigated
PARIS: A piece of Boeing 777 wreckage that washed up on an Indian Ocean island arrived for analysis in France early Saturday, after Malaysian authorities said the part was almost certainly recovered from missing flight MH370. Paris’ Orly airport website confirmed the Air France flight transporting the piece of wreckage landed at 6.17am...
Australia says will continue push for MH17 prosecution
SYDNEY: Australia vowed Saturday no let up in its quest to prosecute those who shot down flight MH17 over Ukraine, saying Russia’s veto of a UN resolution raised further questions about its involvement. …read more Source: New Straits...
Debris brings MH370 mystery ‘closer’ than ever to answers
SAINT ANDRE: Plane debris that washed up on an Indian Ocean island is from a Boeing 777, Malaysian authorities said Friday, making it almost certainly the first piece of wreckage recovered from missing flight MH370. If confirmed by analysis of the wing part — which was being flown to Paris on Friday night from the French island of La Reunion —...
MH370 clues mount as wreckage identified as Boeing 777
SAINT-ANDR, France: Malaysian authorities confirmed yesterday that the plane wreckage washed up on an Indian Ocean island was from a Boeing 777, meaning the part is almost certainly from missing flight MH370. The debris, part of a plane wing, could provide the first tangible clue towards unlocking the mystery surrounding the doomed Malaysia...
