Section: Malaysia
Ukraine unlikely to receive IMF loan tranche this year – finance minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine is unlikely to receive a second tranche of a $17-billion (10.5 billion pounds) loan programme from the International Monetary Fund this year as expected, Finance Minister Oleksander Shlapak said on Tuesday, in the latest economic blow to the debt-ridden country. …read more Source: The...
MH17 prosecutor open to theory another plane shot down airliner – Der Spiegel
AMSTERDAM: Dutch prosecutors investigating the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 believe the aircraft might have been shot down from the air but that a ground-to-air missile attack is more likely, a senior prosecutor said in a German media interview.The Russian government has always said it has radar imagery proving the fully laden Boeing...
Preliminary Report: MH17 broke apart mid-air
CNN reported that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 broke apart in the air after it was hit by a burst of “high-energy objects” from outside, a preliminary report by Dutch aviation investigators said Tuesday.Flight 17 came down in eastern Ukraine on July 17 in an area controlled by pro-Russian separatists. Of the 298 people killed, around two-thirds...
Poland says to beef up military on its eastern border
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland said on Tuesday it is drawing up a long-term plan to shift some of its military strength towards its eastern border, closer to Ukraine and Russia, in response to Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
IGP: 500kg of personal items retrieved
SEREMBAN: MORE than 500kg of personal items belonging to Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 victims have been collected from the crash site in Ukraine. …read more Source: New Straits...
Prosecutor open to theory another plane shot down MH17
AMSTERDAM: Dutch prosecutors investigating the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 believe the aircraft might have been shot down from the air but that a ground-to-air missile attack is more likely, a senior prosecutor said in a German media interview. The Russian government has always said it has radar imagery proving the fully laden Boeing...
Pro-West parties secure big win in Ukraine election
KIEV: Pro-Europe parties secured a big win in an election in Ukraine, a partial vote count showed yesterday, with President Petro Poroshenko hailing people’s support for his plan to end a separatist war and pursue democratic reforms sought by the West.Early figures from the vote count showed that Poroshenko’s bloc and the party of his...
U.S. and EU hail pro-West election outcome in Ukraine, Russia guarded
KIEV (Reuters) – Pro-Western parties will dominate Ukraine’s parliament after an election handed President Petro Poroshenko a mandate to end a separatist conflict and to steer the country further away from Russia’s orbit towards mainstream Europe. …read more Source: The...
EU must prepare for Russia's 'hybrid warfare' – Danish foreign minister
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Russia poses no direct military threat to the European Union but its intervention in Ukraine is a type of ‘hybrid warfare’ the bloc should fight using coordinated energy policy and media to counter “massive propaganda”, Denmark’s foreign minister said on Monday. …read more Source:...
Heavy shelling near rebel-held Ukraine city after poll
Heavy shelling erupted Monday near the separatist held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, ending a relatively calm period during the weekend parliamentary election. Several dozen Grad multiple rockets could be heard firing early in the morning from the area of Putilovsky, a neighbourhood near the city’s ruined airport, AFP...
