Section: The Borneo Post (Malaysia)
Australia, Britain tell Putin to stop being a bully
CANBERRA: British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday told Vladimir Putin to stop bullying smaller states as Australian counterpart Tony Abbott accused the Russian leader of trying to relive the ‘lost glories of tsarism’. The Russian President is due to arrive in Brisbane for the G20 summit at a time of heightened tension with host...
Russian military flights near US raise concern
WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday (Nov 13) said Russia had boosted its military flights near US shores and brusquely warned Moscow to abide by international law. Washington’s concerns came only days after a European think tank warned that since Russia annexed Ukraine’s southern Crimea peninsula earlier this year, “the...
European probe lands on comet, fails to anchor
DARMSTADT, Germany: Europe made history Wednesday by placing the first-ever lander on a comet – but the robot failed to anchor itself properly, raising concerns at ground control.The fridge-sized lab dubbed Philae touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in a high-risk manoeuvre more than 510 million kilometres from Earth, the European...
‘Russian troops in Ukraine amid fears of all-out war’
DONETSK, Ukraine: Nato on Wednesday accused Russia of sending tanks, troops and military hardware to east Ukraine, raising fears of renewed all-out fighting and calling into question the Minsk peace deal.Moscow denied the claims as ‘unfounded’ and the deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Alexander Pankin, told an emergency Security...
Netherlands holds sombre memorial for MH17 victims
AMSTERDAM: The Netherlands yesterday held a sombre and emotional memorial for the 298 people who died when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over war-torn eastern Ukraine in July.“What if the holiday had started a day later? What if the plane had been late? What if I wake up and realise it was all just a dream?” Prime Minister Mark...
Intense artillery fire in Ukraine’s rebel bastion Donetsk
DONETSK, Ukraine: Ukraine’s separatist bastion of Donetsk came under intense artillery fire early yesterday, in a level of combat not seen in the region since a barely-observed ceasefire was signed in September.Firing close to the centre of Donetsk began to build up at 2.00am (2300 GMT Saturday), and could still be heard at the same...
Gorbachev says world on brink of new Cold War
BERLIN: Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned in a speech in Berlin on Saturday that East-West tensions over the Ukraine crisis were threatening to push the world into a new Cold War, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.Gorbachev, who is credited with forging a rapprochement with the West that led to the demise of communist regimes...
Russia’s Putin, EU’s Barroso burnt on British bonfires
LEWES (UNITED KINGDOM): Russian President Vladimir Putin in nothing but green underwear and European leader Jose Manuel Barroso are among those being paraded and burned during traditional British bonfire celebrations this week.An effigy of Russian President Vladimir Putin is paraded through the streets of Lewes in Sussex, on November 5, 2014,...
Orbital blames rocket engine failure for launchpad blast
WASHINGTON: Orbital Sciences Corporation said Wednesday a preliminary probe into last month’s unmanned rocket blast shows an engine failure was to blame for the explosion shortly after liftoff from Wallops Island, Virginia.This still image from NASA video shows an Orbital Sciences Corporation unmanned spacecraft exploding on October 28,...
EU says Ukraine rebel vote risks ‘closing’ window for peace
BRUSSELS: Elections held by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine threaten to close the “window of opportunity” for a peaceful solution to the bloody crisis, EU foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini said Tuesday.Militants of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic stand guard in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, on November 4,...
