Section: Malaysia
Pro-Russian group claims cyber attack on German government websites
German government websites including Chancellor Angela Merkel’s page were hacked today in a cyber attack claimed by a group demanding that Berlin sever official ties with the Ukrainian government. The attack, against which counter-measures were taken, had left the sites periodically inaccessible since 10am (5pm Malaysian time), her...
Pro-Russian group claims cyber attack on German government websites
BERLIN (Reuters) – German government websites including Chancellor Angela Merkel’s page were hacked on Wednesday in a cyber attack claimed by a group demanding that Berlin sever official ties with the Ukrainian government. …read more Source: The...
Three soldiers killed as Ukraine marks Orthodox Christmas
KIEV (Reuters) – Three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in attacks by Russian-backed separatists in the past 24 hours, Kiev’s military said on Wednesday, in fresh violation of a ceasefire regularly flouted since it was announced in September. …read more Source: The...
MH17: Dutch probe secret service role ahead of crash
THE HAGUE: The Netherlands wants to know whether its intelligence services warned airlines of danger about flying over war-torn Ukraine prior to the downing of flight MH17 in July, officials said. …read more Source: New Straits...
Dutch probe secret service role ahead of MH17 crash
THE HAGUE: The Netherlands wants to know whether its intelligence services warned airlines of danger about flying over war-torn Ukraine prior to the downing of flight MH17 in July, officials said Tuesday. Dutch officials are leading the probe into what brought down the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 over Ukraine and killed 298 people aboard, most...
Dutch probe secret service role ahead of MH17 crash
The crash site of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, in a field near the village of Grabove, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on July 23, 2014 -© AFP/File THE HAGUE: The Netherlands wants to know whether its intelligence services warned airlines of danger about flying over war-torn Ukraine prior to the downing of flight MH17 in July,...
Malaysian team to help identify victims
SEPANG: The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) have deployed eight Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) experts to Indonesia to assist in the search and forensic processes involving AirAsia QZ8501. Bukit Aman CID director Datuk Seri Mohamad Salleh said the team comprising six officers and two personnel were expected to be in Indonesia for a month and...
Hollande says plans to attend January 15 four-way Ukraine talks
PARIS (Reuters) – French president Francois Hollande plans to attend a four-way meeting on the Ukraine crisis in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on Jan. 15. …read more Source: The...
Indonesian search and rescue finds two large objects
JAKARTA: Recovery teams have found two big parts of AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed into the sea last weekend with 162 people on board, Indonesia’s top search official said Saturday. The huge search operation came across the objects in the Java Sea off the island of Borneo late Friday night, raising hopes that the remaining bodies and...
Recovery teams narrow AirAsia search
PANGKALAN BUN: Indonesian recovery teams narrowed the search area for AirAsia Flight 8501 Friday, hopeful they were closing in on the plane’s crash site, with a total of 30 bodies and more debris recovered from the sea. French and Singaporean investigators joined the hunt for the Airbus A320-200, which disappeared from radar during a storm...
