Section: The Borneo Post (Malaysia)
UN sec-gen takes note of MH17 probe report ‘with concern’
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has “taken note with concern of the latest report” on the downing of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. Speaking to journalists on Friday at the UN headquarters here, the UN Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq said that Guterres had underlined a prior Security Council resolution demanding...
Russian ministry of defence denies BUK missile shot down MH17
MOSCOW: The Russian Ministry of Defence said no new anti-aircraft missiles crossed the border to Ukraine since 1991, Xinhua news agency reported, citing Russian media reports. Thus, the reports refuted the finding that Russia was responsible for the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Ukraine on July 17, 2014. The joint investigation team...
‘Missile that downed MH17 came from Russian military’
Paulissen, is pictured next to a damaged missile as he presents interim results in the ongoing investigation of the 2014 MH17 crash during a news conference by members of the Joint Investigation Team, comprising the authorities from Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine, in Bunnik. — Reuters photo UTRECHT, Netherlands:...
Putin opens mega bridge linking annexed Crimea to Russia
A vehicle runs down the 19 km road-and-rail Crimean Bridge passing over the Kerch Strait and linking southern Russia to the Crimean peninsula yesterday prior to the opening ceremony. KERCH: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday drove a truck across a new bridge linking mainland Russia to Moscow-annexed Crimea, triggering a fierce reaction...
Ukraine raids offices of Russian state media
People walk past a building where the Kiev office of Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency are housed. — AFP photo KIEV: Ukraine’s state security service searched the Kiev offices of Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency and TV channel RT yesterday, after detaining one journalist near his home, officials said. The...
OPCW confirms UK findings on nerve agent
File photo shows personel take photographs as they swab railings near a bench covered in a protective tent at The Maltings shopping centre in Salisbury, southern England. — AFP photo LONDON, United Kingdom: The world’s chemical arms watchdog yesterday said it had confirmed Britain’s findings that a nerve agent used in an attack on a...
Indonesia seizes alleged ‘slave ship’ wanted by Interpol
Interpol tipped off Indonesian authorities the stateless STS-50, a vessel with a notorious maritime rap sheet, would be entering its waters with authorities concerned the crew were being forced to work. AFP photo JAKARTA: Indonesia seized an alleged “slave ship” following a dramatic high seas chase sparked by an Interpol alert after the vessel...
Britain shared ‘unprecedented’ intel over spy attack
LONDON: Britain shared ‘unprecedented levels’ of intelligence about a spy poisoning it blamed on Moscow, which has led at least 25 countries to expel Russian diplomats, a senior UK government official said Tuesday. This week’s coordinated expulsions have echoed Britain’s action in response to the March 4 attack on former Russian...
US expels 60 Russians as allies back Britain in spy row
Countries that have expelled diplomats following the poisoning of former Russian spy Serguey Skripal on March 4. AFP WASHINGTON: The United States joined Britain’s allies in Europe and around the world Monday in expelling scores of suspected Russian spies in an unprecedented response to a nerve agent attack. At least 114 alleged agents...
US expels 60 Russian ‘spies’ over UK nerve attack
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has ordered the expulsion of 60 alleged Russian spies from the United States in response to a nerve agent attack on an ex-spy in the English city of Salisbury. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the move, part of globally coordinated retaliation against Moscow, was taken “in response to...
