Section: theSun (Malaysia)
Ukraine hands back stolen Dutch masterpieces: Officials
THE HAGUE: Five stolen 17th and 18th-century masterpieces were handed back to the Netherlands Friday, foreign ministry officials said, and will soon return to a local museum from where they disappeared 11 years ago. “Ukrainian authorities have handed over five Dutch paintings to the Westfries Museum. The handover has just taken place at the...
Clinton to meet Ukrainian leader in jab at Trump
WASHINGTON: White House hopeful Hillary Clinton will meet Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko later this month, her campaign said Wednesday, hoping to contrast her pro-Kiev stance with Donald Trump’s embrace of neighbouring Russia. Officials said Clinton would meet the beleaguered Ukrainian leader, who has struggled to keep his country on...
US pushes Russia on ‘true’ Syria peace deal ahead of new talks
GENEVA: The US pressed Russia on Thursday for a “true cessation of hostilities” in Syria ahead of high-level peace talks Friday in Geneva, warning that its patience is running thin. Foreign ministers from the two powers, which support opposite sides in the five-year conflict, will meet in the Swiss city to push for a peace agreement,...
US-Russia deal on Syria needs ‘true’ ceasefire: Carter
LONDON: Washington is willing to cooperate with Moscow to end the Syrian conflict but only if there is first a “true cessation” of hostilities, US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said Thursday. Ahead of an expected meeting in Geneva between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Carter told BBC radio...
Russian fighter in ‘unsafe’ intercept of US spy plane: Pentagon
WASHINGTON: A Russian fighter jet flew dangerously close to a US spy plane over the Black Sea on Wednesday, the Pentagon said, although Moscow quickly insisted the encounter was within “international rules.” A Russian Su-27 Flanker jet made an unsafe, close-range intercept of a US P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine and intelligence plane...
Russia launches major military drills set to rattle Kiev
MOSCOW: Russia on Monday launched large-scale military drills on Ukraine’s eastern border and around the Crimean peninsula, in the latest exercises set to rattle Kiev and the West. The defence ministry said 12,500 servicemen are taking part in the drills across its southern military region, which encompasses Russia’s volatile North...
First Putin-May meeting ‘constructive’: Kremlin
HANGZHOU, China: Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with British Prime Minister Theresa May for the first time Sunday, telling her Russia wants to re-establish ties in all areas, the Kremlin said. The meeting, on the margins of a G20 summit in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, was “good, constructive and open”, Kremlin...
Abe calls for ‘new epoch’ in Russia-Japan ties hit by WWII dispute
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia: Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (pix) on Saturday appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin for a new era in ties hampered by a territorial dispute dating back to WWII. “Let’s put an end to this abnormal situation, which has lasted 70 years and together start to build a new epoch in Russia-Japan ties...
Putin: I have no idea who hacked US Democratic Party
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said he did not know who was behind the hacking of US Democratic Party organisations but it was important the information had been made public, Bloomberg news agency reported on Friday. In an interview two days before a G20 meeting in China with US President Barack Obama and other world leaders, Putin said...
Japan’s Abe in Russia to warm ties with Putin
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia’s far east on Friday as the countries step up efforts to boost trade ties and resolve a lingering territorial dispute. Tokyo-Moscow relations are hamstrung by a row dating back to the end of World War II when Soviet troops...
