Section: theSun (Malaysia)
Russian protester murdered after threats: Activists
SAINT PETERSBURG: Russian campaigners on Monday said a woman found murdered with multiple stab wounds in the city of Saint Petersburg was a well-known local activist who had received threats over her protests for LGBT rights and opposition causes.Authorities confirmed they had found the body of a woman in Russia’s second largest city but...
Zelensky party wins record score in Ukraine vote: Exit polls
KIEV: Ukrainians gave their comedian-turned-president Volodymyr Zelensky a mandate to reboot the country’s politics on Sunday by handing his party a record score in parliamentary elections, exit polls showed.Zelensky’s Servant of the People party — named after the sitcom he starred in before his shock presidential win in April — took...
Ukraine’s Zelensky eyes parliament renewal in early polls
KIEV: Three months after winning a landslide victory in Ukraine’s presidential election, former comedian Volodymyr Zelensky (pix) is hoping to consolidate his success in parliamentary polls on Sunday.Voter surveys show Zelensky’s party Servant of the People — named after a sitcom in which he starred as president — is Ukraine’s...
Russia extends Ukraine sailors’ detention amid prisoner swap talks
MOSCOW: A Russian court on Wednesday prolonged the detention of 24 Ukrainian sailors captured last year near Crimea, in the midst of sensitive prisoner-swap talks between the two ex-Soviet neighbours.Moscow’s Lefortovsky district court ruled that the sailors must stay in detention for an extra three months until October 24.After the...
Italy’s Salvini says threats to him led to neo-nazi arms haul
ROME: Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Tuesday a death threat against him had launched the investigation that led to the seizure of a massive neo-nazi arms cache.Salvini was referring to the massive weapons haul, including an air-to-air missile, which Italian police displayed to the press on Monday.“It’s not my missile...
Russia and West spar at UN over minority rights in Ukraine
UNITED STATES: Russia on Tuesday slammed new legislation declaring Ukrainian to be the national language of Ukraine, during a meeting of the UN Security Council which western powers used as a forum to denounce Russia’s annexation of Crimea.The Russian denunciation came as a new Ukrainian law, passed in April, came into effect and which...
Missile seized in Italy sold to third country in 1994: Qatar
DOHA: A missile once owned by the Qatari army and seized by police in Italy among other weapons was sold to a third country in 1994, Doha said Tuesday.“Qatar is working very closely now with the pertinent parties, including Italy, to unveil the facts and it is very concerned as to how a missile sold 25 years ago ended up in the hands of a third...
Ukraine mixed-race wrestler tackles prejudice in run for parliament
BOYARKA: Zhan Beleniuk, an Olympic wrestler with Rwandan roots, is seeking to enter Ukraine’s parliament as the first mixed-race MP in a bid to overcome racist attitudes and support the country’s young new leader.The Greco-Roman style wrestler, who won silver for Ukraine at the Rio Olympics, is standing for the party of the new...
Salvini ally questioned over Russia funding affair: Reports
ROME: Italian prosecutors questioned an associate of deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini over allegations he tried to broker covert Russian funding for the far-right League party, Italian newspapers reported Monday.But Gianluca Savoini, whose voice was identified on a covert recording of the talks in Moscow, invoked his right to remain silence,...
Italy seizes missile from far-right sympathisers
ROME: Italian police said Monday they had seized weapons including an air-to-air missile in raids on far-right extremist groups.Neo-Nazi propaganda was also seized during the raids in several cities against Italians suspected of aiding pro-Russian rebels fighting Ukrainian troops in Donbass.“During the operation, an air-to-air missile in perfect...
