Section: The Borneo Post (Malaysia)
Dutch to renew search for body parts, debris at MH17 crash site
Ukrainian State Emergency Service personnel search for bodies near the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 26, 2014 -© AFP/File THE HAGUE: Dutch and international investigators will renew their search for body parts and debris at the MH17 plane crash site in restive eastern Ukraine, including at a location previously considered...
54 dead in trawler sinking off Russia’s Far East
A man looks at a computer screen displaying a photo that shows a trawler the same type as the Dalmy Vostok in Moscow. (Inset) Russian Emergencies Ministry member uses a radio during a rescue operation Dalniy Vostok sank off the coast of Kamchatka, in a helicopter off the Sea of Okhotsk. – Reuters photos MOSCOW: At least 54 sailors have died and...
Dozens dead as Russian trawler sinks off Kamchatka
A Russian freezer trawler with an international crew of 132 sank early Thursday morning in the Sea of Okhotsk off of the Kamchatka Peninsula and at least 54 crew members were killed, rescue workers said. Sixty-three of the 132 people on board the Dalniy Vostok were rescued with the sea’s temperature near zero degrees, Viktor Klepikov,...
54 dead, 15 missing after trawler sinks off Kamchatka Peninsula
VLADIVOSTOK: The death toll from a fishing freezer trawler that sank off Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula Thursday morning has reached 54, Xinhua news agency reports citing local media. Artur Rets, head of rescue centre at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky port, said 63 people had been rescued and 15 remained missing, said Russia Today. The trawler had...
Dutch seek BUK missile witnesses in MH17 crash probe
Dutch investigators work at the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 near the village of Grabove in eastern Ukraine on March 24, 2015 -© AFP/File THE HAGUE: Dutch and international experts probing the MH17 plane crash in eastern Ukraine appealed Monday for witnesses who saw the transport or firing of a BUK surface-to-air missile around...
A string of air disasters in 2014-2015
A Malaysia Airlines aircraft lands at Kuala Lumpur Airport in December 2014 -© AFP The last 14 months has seen a series of high profile air crashes, a worrying number of which remain unresolved. 11 February, 2014: A military transport plane — a Hercules C-130 — carrying 78 people crashes in a mountainous part of north-eastern Algeria. Reports...
Son of ousted Ukraine leader said to have drowned in car accident
Victor Yanukovych Jr served as a deputy in Ukraine’s Rada from 2006 but had been living in Russia since his father lost power following pro-European protests -© AFP/File KIEV: The 33-year-old son of toppled ex-Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych has died, his former party said Monday, after his car apparently fell through ice on...
Dutch visit previously inaccessible MH17 Ukraine crash site
The wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 which was shot down over Ukraine in July 2014 is laid out in a hangar on Gilze-Rijen airbase, southern Netherlands -© ANP/AFP/File THE HAGUE: Dutch experts returned to war-ravaged Ukraine on Friday to probe the MH17 crash site, including visiting a location previously considered unsafe because of...
Russia marks Crimea annexation anniversary
Concert and festivities to celebrate the first year of taking over of Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine Valery, 30, a member of the People’s Militia of Crimea, shows his son Kirill a medal, which was presented to Valery for merits while serving in a self-defence unit, inside his house on the first anniversary of the Crimean referendum to...
China becomes world’s number three arms exporter: study
STOCKHOLM: China has eased ahead of Germany and France to become the world’s number three arms exporter after the United States and Russia, a Stockholm-based think-tank said Monday. The volume of the multi-billion dollar world arms trade rose 16 percent during the period 2010 to 2014 over the previous five years, the Stockholm International...
