Section: The Borneo Post (Malaysia)
‘Maximum cooperation’ demanded on MH17: Dutch PM
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has met Russian President Vladimir Putin to demand “maximum cooperation” in the probe into doomed Malaysia flight MH17, the Dutch top politician has said.The wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 near the village of Rassipnoe on October 15, 2014 -AFP photo“I have just spoken to President Putin in Milan and...
Dutch return to MH17 crash site as search resumes
Dutch officials on Monday returned to the crash site of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine where the search for remains and belongings resumed despite sporadic exchanges of fire.The Dutch were part of an Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) team that has brokered a return to where the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 crashed in...
Ukrainian teams to search MH17 crash site for remains, belongings — Dutch TV
AMSTERDAM: Ukrainian search teams will comb the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which went down on July 17, and return human remains and belongings to the Netherlands, Dutch television reported.Dutch current affairs programme Nieuwsuur said on Sunday an agreement had been reached between Dutch and Ukrainian officials and the teams...
Putin orders troop pullback from border
Putin (centre) chairs a meeting of the Security Council at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi. — Reuters photoMOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his defence minister to pull thousands of troops from the border with Ukraine, ahead of key talks on a fragile truce in the ex-Soviet country.The announcement by the Kremlin...
MH17 victim found with oxygen mask — Dutch
FMTHE HAGUE: One of the people on the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 shot down in Ukraine in July was found wearing an oxygen mask, the Dutch foreign minister and prosecutors said, raising the possibility that some passengers might have known their plane was doomed.“You know that somebody was discovered wearing an oxygen mask and had time to put...
Ukraine lobbies for Nato, IMF help
A policeman walks past the body of a victim who was killed by recent shelling in front of a shop in Donetsk. — Reuters photoTruce in Ukraine teetering on verge of collapse just weeks before general electionDONETSK, Ukraine: Ukraine dispatched top envoys to Washington and Brussels on Wednesday to secure help in the face of a surge in clashes with...
Western pressure mounts on Russia to save Ukraine truce
KIEV: Western pressure mounted on Russia on Saturday (Oct 4) to save Ukraine’s crumbling truce as pro-Kremlin insurgents staged intensifying raids on an airport vital for sustaining their independence drive.But analysts said Russian President Vladimir Putin was ready to weather isolation and economic sanctions as the cost of cementing his...
