Section: Malaysia
Japan announces additional sanctions on Russia
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan said on Wednesday that it is imposing additional sanctions on Russia, toughening its stance against Moscow to bring it more in line with steps taken by other nations, including its key ally the United States. …read more Source: The...
Obama forges anti-ISIL coalition, but will it hang together?
WASHINGTON: The Arabs are in. Turkey is on the fence. Britain, still smarting from an earlier Iraq war, is cautiously edging toward expanded action. Even Greece wants to help – if someone would tell it how. Two weeks after he announced plans to form a “broad coalition” to fight the militant group Islamic State, President Barack Obama’s...
EU warns Russia not to use gas as weapon in Ukraine crisis
KIEV: The chief European Union energy official warned Russia today not to use gas supplies as a weapon in its standoff with Ukraine over the fate of its neighbour’s separatist east. EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said he hoped to reach an “interim solution” with Russia over its gas supply cut to Ukraine when the three...
Putin warns Ukraine against implementing EU deal – letter
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Moscow will curtail Ukraine’s access to vital Russian markets if Kiev implements any part of a trade agreement with the European Union, President Vladimir Putin warned in a letter, toughening his stance on a deal at the centre of East-West tensions. …read more Source: The...
Exclusive – Kazakhstan balanced between Ukraine and post-NATO Afghanistan
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Looking at the neighbourhood around Kazakhstan on a spinning globe, the Central Asian nation’s foreign minister sees both partnerships and peril in the form of the Russian-Ukraine crisis and the coming NATO pullout from Afghanistan by year end. …read more Source: The...
Europe wants Russia, Ukraine to sign interim gas deal in Berlin
KIEV (Reuters) – The European Commission (EC) will propose that Russia and Ukraine sign an interim gas agreement in Berlin as a step towards resolving their long-standing row over gas prices, Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
Pro-Russia rebels say withdrawing artillery in east Ukraine
MOSCOW: The prime minister of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk said today that the pro-Russian rebels have removed artillery from frontline areas where Ukraine had also withdrawn, in line with a peace plan signed Saturday. “We have withdrawn artillery but only in those areas where the Ukrainian regular units have done...
Abe drops plan for Putin visit to Japan this year: media
TOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (pix) has dropped plans to host Russian President Vladimir Putin in Japan this year due to friction after Tokyo imposed sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis, reports said Tuesday. The two countries had agreed on the Russian leader’s visit “this autumn” but Washington had asked Tokyo to...
Khodorkovsky Challenges Putin as Opposition Stages March
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the one-time oil tycoon who spent a decade in President Vladimir Putin’s prisons, staked a claim to the leadership of Russia’s opposition, which staged its biggest demonstration in years. Khodorkovsky, 51, living in exile in Switzerland since his release in December, called on supporters to help influence the...
Russia’s Putin and Japan’s Abe express interest in summit
TOKYO: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe held telephone talks Sunday amid frictions over Ukraine, and reportedly expressed interest in holding a summit. …read more Source: New Straits...
