Section: theSun (Malaysia)
Clinton says Trump’s praise of Russia raises ‘national security issues’
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton on Sunday sharply criticized Donald Trump over his “absolute allegiance” to Russian policy aims, saying it raised both “national security issues” and new doubts about his temperament. Trump, her Republican rival in the race for the White House, responded defiantly, saying that he had “no...
Ukraine at UN says Putin’s Crimea decree ‘null and void’
UNITED NATIONS, United States: Ukraine’s UN ambassador on Thursday dismissed as “null and void” a decree by Russian President Vladimir Putin incorporating annexed Crimea into his country’s southern region. Kiev asked the UN Security Council to issue a statement reaffirming Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial...
Trial opens over murder of Kremlin critic Nemtsov
MOSCOW: A Moscow military court on Monday began an initial closed-door hearing in the trial of the suspects in the shock murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov last year, a lawyer said. Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister and one of the most prominent critics of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down on the evening of February 27, 2015, as...
Pavel Sheremet: Fearless journalist killed in Ukraine
KIEV: Belarus-born journalist Pavel Sheremet, who was killed by a car bomb in central Kiev on Wednesday, was known for his fearless criticism of the leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. An award-winning journalist who interviewed Ukraine’s top politicians, Sheremet was widely admired in the pro-Western country. “He somehow managed...
Seven Ukraine troops die in worst clashes in two months
KIEV: Ukraine said Tuesday seven of its soldiers had been killed and 14 wounded in the bloodiest clashes with pro-Russian separatists in two months. The announcement — the highest daily death toll since Ukraine reported seven of its soldiers dying on May 24 — follows a flurry of talks between world leaders and Moscow on stopping the 26-month...
HIV infections level off at ‘worrying’ 2.5m a year
PARIS: Some 2.5 million people are still becoming infected with HIV every year even as drugs have slashed the death rate and virus-carriers live longer than ever, a global AIDS study said Tuesday. New infections have plateaued for the past 10 years after a steep dip from the peak rate of 3.3 million in 1997, said the authors of a comprehensive...
Ukrainians take to Facebook to break taboo over rape
KIEV: It was yet another online discussion blaming a rape victim for provoking her attacker that prompted Ukrainian activist Anastasiya Melnychenko’s campaign to shatter taboos in her homeland and neighbouring Russia. In response Melnychenko typed out an unflinching account of the string of sexual assaults she has suffered throughout her...
Attacker staked out Nice site, accomplice suspected
NICE, France: The Nice truck attacker staked out the seafront for two days before striking, it emerged Sunday as investigators pieced together details of the Islamic State-claimed massacre and questioned possible accomplices. A source close to the investigation told AFP that Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, sent a text message...
Two years on, Ukraine villagers mourn at MH17 crash site
PETROPAVLIVKA, Ukraine: Dozens of villagers carried flowers and lit candles on Sunday at the site in rebel-held eastern Ukraine where flight MH17 crashed two years ago, killing all 298 people on board. About 60 people joined the vigil on the small square of the village of Petropavlivka where some of the remains and personal belongings of...
Two held as details emerge about France truck attacker (Updated)
NICE, France: French investigators arrested two more people Sunday as they pieced together details about the motives and preparations of the Tunisian who rammed a truck into a crowd in an IS-claimed attack that killed 84. Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel visited the Nice promenade with his rented truck on the two days before he smashed the vehicle into...
