Section: The Borneo Post (Malaysia)
Ukraine leader reports ‘de-escalation’ in fighting with separatists
Ukrainian soldiers man a position on the front line near the small eastern Ukrainian city of Kurakhove, March 11, 2015 -© AFP/File / by Clare Byrne, Oleksandr Savochenko KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko reported Friday a “gradual de-escalation” in the conflict between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in the country’s...
Ex-Russian premier rejects idea Nemtsov was anti-Muslim
Russia’s opposition supporters carry portraits of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov during a march in central Moscow on March 1, 2015, © AFP/File STRASBOURG: A prominent ally of slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov on Tuesday dismissed suggestions by Russian investigators that he was murdered because he was anti-Muslim. Mikhail...
Airlines need to improve despite ‘safest’ year: IATA chief
Last year was the safest ever for commercial aviation despite high-profile incidents such as the disappearance of Flight MH370 -© AFP/File HONG KONG: Last year was the safest ever for commercial aviation despite high-profile incidents such as the disappearance of Flight MH370, but the industry is still working on new technologies to improve its...
Air travel ‘safer’ in 2014 despite Malaysia disasters: IATA
LAST YEAR was by some measures the safest in the history of commercial aviation, despite two high-profile crashes involving Malaysia Airlines aircraft in which hundreds of people were killed, a leading industry body said on Monday according to a Reuters report. While more people died in air accidents in 2014 than the average in recent years, the...
Q&A on the MH370 mystery
A year on, there remains no evidence to indicate what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to vanish or where it ended up, despite the most expensive search operation in history -© AFP/File / by Dan Martin, with Glenda Kwek in Sydney KUALA LUMPUR: A year on, there remains no evidence to indicate what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to...
Russia denies US claim of ‘thousands’ of troops in Ukraine
Pro-Russia militants near the eastern Ukrainian city of Starobeshevo, on February 25, 2015 -© AFP MOSCOW: Russian officials on Thursday dismissed a claim by the United States that Moscow has sent “thousands” of troops to fight alongside pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine. “These figures, which are plucked out of the air, of course demoralise and...
Russian online retailer expects boom despite consumer gloom
MOSCOW: Russian retailers are being hit by consumers’ loss of purchasing power, but Ulmart, the country’s version of Amazon, expects to strengthen its position as people begin to count every kopeck. “We are optimistic about this year,” said Ulmart board chairman Dmitry Kostygin. “But for certain competitors it will be difficult,” the...
Russian bombers disrupted planes in Irish airspace
One plane was diverted and another delayed to avoid two Russian bombers that flew through Irish-controlled airspace, a navigational radar seen here, without warning in February, the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) said on Tuesday -© AFP/File DUBLIN: One plane was diverted and another delayed to avoid two Russian bombers that flew through...
Bereaved to view MH17 wreckage at Dutch base
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 in the southern Netherlands, March 2, 2015 -© ANP/AFP GILZE-RIJEN AIRBASE, NETHERLANDS: The first of around 500 relatives of those killed in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over...
Russia bids farewell to slain Nemtsov
Longtime critic of Putin and anti-corruption crusader was gunned down outside Kremlin walls Relatives and friends pay their respects as they stand close to the coffin of Boris Nemtsov during a farewell ceremony in Moscow. — AFP photo MOSCOW: Thousands of mourners yesterday filed past the coffin of slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov,...
