Section: Malaysia
Russian missile maker says BUK rocket downed MH17
MOSCOW: The Russian firm making missiles similar to the one the West claims downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Ukraine said on Tuesday the passenger jet was likely hit by a BUK missile system. All 298 passengers and crew on board the Malaysia Airlines jetliner — the majority of them Dutch — died when it was shot down over rebel-held eastern...
Latvia to choose president in controversial ‘black box’ vote
RIGA: Latvia’s parliament votes for a new president on Wednesday as the small Baltic NATO and eurozone member weighs security concerns amid heightened tensions with Soviet-era master Russia. Four candidates are in the race, but given Latvia’s indirect presidential voting system and its fractious 100-member parliament, it is unclear...
US plays down flyover by Russian bombers near warship
WASHINGTON: The US military released a video Monday of a Russian Su-24 bomber flying past an American warship in the Black Sea to dispel what it called inaccurate media reports about a routine encounter. In the video, a Su-24 aircraft appears in the distance, then zooms by the USS Ross – a guided-missile destroyer. Other Russian bombers also flew...
Egypt seizes over 64 million smuggled cigarette packs
CAIRO: Egypt said on Monday it seized more than 64 million packs of smuggled cigarettes in May, of which over two million were counterfeit. The customs authorities at Port Said confiscated about 56 million packs before they could enter the country, the interior ministry said. At the same port, 5.9 million packs that were being shipped from the...
Nato flexes muscles in Baltics, Poland
US-led Nato drills began Monday in the Baltic states and Poland, a move intended to reassure Russia’s nervous neighbours amid tensions over Ukraine. Russia’s increased military presence in the Baltic Sea and regional airspace since its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine last year has jangled nerves in the area, which lay behind the...
U.N. finds growing signs of Russian involvement in Ukraine war
GENEVA (Reuters) – A separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine is revealing increasing evidence, but not yet conclusive legal proof, of Russian state involvement, senior United Nations human rights officials said on Monday. …read more Source: The...
Russian FM dimisses ‘absurdity’ of EU anger over entry bans
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday dismissed the “absurdity” of EU complaints over a travel ban imposed by Moscow on 89 Europeans over the Ukraine crisis. “It is even quite embarrassing to explain the absurdity and awkwardness of such logic as it’s an attempt to substitute international law with one’s...
Russia dismisses EU criticism of travel blacklist
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia criticised the European Union on Monday for allowing the publication of a list of European officials barred from entering the country in the diplomatic fallout over the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: The...
Malaysia Airlines cuts 6,000 jobs as new CEO rolls up sleeves
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines is “technically bankrupt”, its new German CEO said Monday as the carrier slashed 6,000 jobs as part of plans to recover from deadly disasters and a long run of red ink. Christoph Mueller made public his plans for the troubled flag carrier for the first time since the aviation turnaround specialist was brought in on...
Three Ukrainian serviceman killed in separatist east – Kiev military
KIEV (Reuters) – Three Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and four others wounded in attacks by pro-Russian separatists in the east over the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s military spokesman said on Monday. …read more Source: The...
