Section: The Malaysian Insider (Malaysia)
No sign of breakthrough as Russia, Ukraine meet in Milan
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko met an array of EU leaders on Friday, but there was little sign of progress in patching up a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine and resolving a dispute over natural gas supplies. Putin held more than 2-1/2 hours of talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel overnight. The...
Putin takes centre stage at Asia-Europe summit
Vladimir Putin (pic) will take centre stage at an Asia-Europe (Asem) summit that opens Thursday in Milan, where the Russian leader is to hold face-to-face talks with Ukraine counterpart Petro Poroshenko. The headline theme of the conference is promoting economic cooperation between more than 50 countries who share one of the world’s...
Moscow and Beijing ‘natural allies’ Putin tells China
Russian President Vladimir Putin (pic) on Tuesday praised growing economic ties with “natural ally” Beijing as he hosted Chinese premier Li Keqiang for high-profile talks. Li’s three-day visit to Russia comes as the Kremlin is locked in a battle of wills with the West over Ukraine and is seeking to ramp up cooperation with Asia...
Protesters clash with police in Ukraine capital, throw smoke bombs
A few thousand protesters clashed with police on Tuesday outside the Ukrainian parliament, throwing stones and smoke bombs and firing with air guns through the building’s windows. A Reuters photographer said the protesters, many of whom were masked and armed with batons or metal chains, massed outside the main entrance of the building...
Russia’s Putin to attend G20 leaders summit
Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey confirmed Sunday Vladimir Putin will attend the G20 leaders’ summit in November, despite concerns about Russia’s actions in Ukraine in recent months. Australia’s confirmation that the Russian leader would attend the high-powered summit came after Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko said he...
Netherlands says 10 more MH17 passengers identified
Medical experts have now identified 272 of the 298 people aboard the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 shot down in Ukraine in July, the Dutch justice ministry said Friday. Ten more people were identified this week of whom seven held Dutch nationality, the ministry said in a statement, adding that their relatives would be informed. It did not…...
Families of MH17 victims to seek damages from Dutch state, says lawyer
Dutch relatives of victims of Malaysia Airlines MH17, downed over Ukraine in July, will hold the Dutch government liable for damages for its handling of the aftermath of the crash, a lawyer representing families said on Friday. There were 196 Dutch nationals onboard the Boeing 777 when it crashed on July 17 over eastern Ukraine, killing...
Europe sends in drones to save Ukraine truce
The first European drones landed Monday in Ukraine and a top US envoy visited Kiev in an urgent bid to bolster its crumbling truce with pro-Russian fighters. Ukraine also announced the arrival of winter supplies from Germany for towns and cities devastated by nearly six months of warfare that has killed nearly 3,300 people across the…...
Ukraine and rebels trade blame for Red Cross death as fighting resumes
Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian forces were engaged in fresh clashes in the eastern city of Donetsk today as they traded blame over the death of a foreign aid worker four weeks into their shaky truce. Parliament speaker Oleksandr Turchinov claimed the ceasefire has been breached “over a thousand times” while the Kiev government...
Ten killed in Ukraine’s Donetsk on first day of school
Ukraine’s largest rebel-controlled city of Donetsk was shaken by violence yesterday as 10 people, including parents and teachers, were killed, the highest toll since a tenuous ceasefire was agreed. Terrified children, arriving for the first day of school, were forced to shelter in the basement as the shelling yielded the highest...
