Section: The Borneo Post (Malaysia)
Egypt beach resort attack kills two foreigners
File photo taken on January 9, 2016 shows tourists relaxing on the beach at the Bella Vista Hotel in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Hurghada. AFP CAIRO: Two foreign women were killed on Friday and four others were wounded when an assailant stabbed them at an Egyptian beach resort in the Sinai Peninsula, officials said. The governor of Red Sea...
MH17 lawyer tells Putin to ‘make amends’ over crash
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in July 2014, killing all 298 people on board. AFP file photo SYDNEY: Russian President Vladimir Putin must “make amends” for those killed on a Malaysia Airlines jet shot down over Ukraine, the lawyer representing victims said Wednesday ahead of the third anniversary of the disaster. The...
3 tigers resettled in France after Lebanon rescue
AFP / by Maya Gebeily | One of three Siberian tigers to be resettled in France growls in a cage at a centre of the Animals Lebanon NGO on June 10, 2017, before they are flown to their new sanctuary -AFP photo EIRUT: Three Siberian tigers rescued in Lebanon from an attempt to smuggle them into war-ravaged Syria were being resettled to France on...
Stormy G20 ends with opt-outs for Trump on climate, trade
The final statement acknowledged Trump’s decision to go his own way on taking the United States out of the 2015 Paris climate accord. AFP Photo HAMBURG: World leaders made concessions on trade and climate language to Donald Trump Saturday at the end of the most fractious and riot-hit G20 summit ever, in exchange for preserving a fragile...
Trump versus the rest as violent G20 wraps up
US President Donald Trump attends the banquet after a concert at the Elbphilharmonie concert hall during the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017. AFP photo HAMBURG: US President Donald Trump heads Saturday into the final day of a fractious and violent G20 summit in Germany at odds even with America’s traditional Western allies....
Protests turn violent for Trump’s maiden G20
Up to 100,000 demonstrators are expected before and during the two-day Group of 20 meeting bringing US President Donald Trump, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping and other leaders to Hamburg. AFP photo HAMBURG, Germany: Demonstrations turned violent late Thursday ahead of a tricky first G20 summit for US President Donald...
Trials linked to downing of passenger flight MH17 to be held in the Netherlands
AMSTERDAM: Suspects in the 2014 downing of passenger flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine will be tried in Dutch court and under Dutch law, the Netherlands’ foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The decision follows attempts, blocked by Russia in 2015, to set up an international court over the incident, which killed all 298 people aboard the...
Jury finds five guilty of Kremlin foe Nemtsov murder
Zaur Dadayev, one of five defendants found guilty by a Moscow court over the 2015 murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, seen here being escorted by police officers on June 22. -AFP photo MOSCOW: A Russian jury on Thursday found all five defendants guilty of organising and carrying out the contract killing of opposition leader Boris...
MH17 team hopes emotional videos will bring new leads
Investigators into the MH17 disaster hope emotional video testimony from victims’ relatives can spur a response for new information in Ukraine, where the jet was downed. AFP Photo THE HAGUE: International investigators and relatives of victims of flight MH17, shot down over eastern Ukraine almost three years ago, renewed efforts Wednesday...
Fresh cyberattack likely ‘more sophisticated’ than WannaCry
Staff monitor the spread of the WannaCry ransomware cyber-attack from the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) in Seoul -AFP THE HAGUE: The wave of cyberattacks hitting Europe and North America is similar to last month’s WannaCry ransomware havoc, but appears potentially “more sophisticated,” the European police agency said Wednesday....
