Section: Malaysia
Dutch expert suspended after showing MH17 victim photos
THE HAGUE: A Dutch expert helping to identify victims from last year’s MH17 airliner crash in Ukraine has been suspended after showing photographs of the dead at a public lecture, police said Thursday. “He has been suspended from his work and we’ll see if other measures need to be taken,” Thomas Aling, spokesman for the Dutch national...
U.S. says Russia ramping military presence on Ukraine border
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia has deployed additional air defence systems into eastern Ukraine and is involved in training exercises of Russian-separatist forces in the area in breach of ceasefire accords, the State Department said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
EU charges Russia’s Gazprom with abuse of market position
BRUSSELS: EU regulators on Wednesday formally charged Russian gas giant Gazprom with abusing its dominant market position in Europe, a move that risks inflaming tensions with the Kremlin. “All companies that operate in the European market — no matter if they are European or not — have to play by our EU rules,” said Margrethe Vestager,...
Ukraine, in snub to Moscow, to adopt British war-time symbol, ditch Soviet war name
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine, in a break with tradition that is certain to rile Moscow, is ditching the Soviet name for World War Two and aims to adopt the poppy, a mainly British wartime symbol, to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. …read more Source: The...
MH17: Many human remains found at crash site
THE HAGUE: Dutch investigators have recovered “many” more body parts and pieces of wreckage after resuming their search at the MH17 plane crash site in Ukraine, the Netherlands said today. …read more Source: New Straits...
Russia says IS is greatest enemy, not US
MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today that the Islamic State group was Moscow’s greatest enemy, notwithstanding the strained relations with the United States over the Ukraine conflict. …read more Source: New Straits...
Ukraine says it aims to prevent Russian attacks at WW II commemorations
KIEV(Reuters) – Ukraine is planning an operation involving tens of thousands of police to guard against any attack by separatists or Russian agents during World War Two commemorations next month, security chiefs said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
U.S. offers Ukraine $17.7 million in humanitarian aid – White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday about the ongoing crisis in eastern Ukraine and offered an additional $17.7 million (12 million pound) in aid for essentials like food, shelter and water, the White House said. …read more Source: The...
US starts training Ukrainians to fight pro-Russia forces
KIEV: US paratroopers on Monday began training Ukrainian government forces who will fight pro-Russian separatists in the east, angering Moscow as the deadly conflict rumbles on in the ex-Soviet country. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko welcomed troops from the US 173rd Airborne Brigade in a rain-soaked ceremony at a military base in Yavoriv,...
U.S. begins training Ukrainian guardsmen despite Russia's concerns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Army paratroopers began military training for small units of the Ukrainian national guard on Monday despite Russian warnings that the action could destabilise the country’s tenuous cease-fire. …read more Source: The...
