Section: theSun (Malaysia)
France mourns 84 dead in Nice truck attack
NICE, France: France on Saturday began a period of national mourning for the 84 people who died after a “terrorist” drove his truck through a crowd in Nice as they watched Bastille Day fireworks. President Francois Hollande said the country would observe three days of mourning as he warned the death toll could rise further, with more...
Hungary’s anti-immigrant PM faces workforce shortage
BUDAPEST: A population slump in Hungary is presenting Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s anti-immigration government with a headache: how to plug labour supply shortages without turning to foreigners. Hungary, an EU member since 2004, has seen 400,000 people leave the country since 2008, and 850,000 over the past 35 years. In addition, since the...
US envoy Kerry plans trip to Moscow
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry will make his latest trip to Moscow this week to seek common ground on how to deal with the ongoing bloodshed in Syria. The State Department said Kerry would speak with senior Russian officials about Syria and Ukraine, as well as tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorny-Karabakh region....
Obama visits Spain on symbolic but curtailed trip
MADRID: Barack Obama wrapped up a lightning visit to Spain on Sunday, an abbreviated first presidential trip to the country overshadowed by the fatal shooting of five police officers in Dallas. Obama squeezed in the trip after a key NATO summit, before dashing home to deal with the aftermath of the wrenching attack. Greeting Spain King Felipe at...
Moscow blasts Nato focus on ‘non-existent’ Russia threat
MOSCOW: Moscow on Sunday slammed Nato for focusing on a “non-existent” threat from Russia at a leaders summit in Warsaw that saw fears over the Kremlin’s expansionism high on the agenda. “A preliminary analysis of the results of the meeting shows that Nato continues to exist in some sort of military-political looking-glass...
Spain confident of avoiding EU fines over budget rules
MADRID: Spain voiced confidence in its economic policies on Friday, a day after the European Commission declared it and its neighbour Portugal to be in violation of public spending rules. The European Union’s executive on Thursday accused the two eurozone members of moving too slowly towards meeting the EU’s deficit limit of...
Three astronauts blast off for ISS in upgraded Soyuz craft
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan: Three astronauts blasted off into the early morning sky in an upgraded Soyuz spacecraft from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome Thursday, heading towards the International Space Station. First-time astronauts Kathleen Rubins of NASA and Takuya Onishi of the Japanese space agency set off for a four-month mission at the ISS...
Six die, including three children, in rebel Ukraine (Updated)
KIEV: Three children died in Ukraine’s war-torn east as their father disassembled a grenade, and three Ukrainian troops were killed in clashes in the troubled region with pro-Russian rebels, officials said Tuesday. An insurgency commander said the children, aged between two and 11, found a grenade Monday and gave it to their father in the...
17 more charged over Istanbul airport attack
ISTANBUL: Seventeen people including 11 Russians have been charged over the Istanbul airport attack, Dogan news agency reported Tuesday, bringing to 30 the total number charged over the suicide assault. The latest suspects, who also include six Turks, were charged with “belonging to an armed terrorist group”. Ankara says the Islamic...
13 detained over Istanbul airport attack
ISTANBUL: Turkey on Thursday detained 13 suspected Islamic State jihadists over the deadly Istanbul airport attack, as chilling details emerged of how suicide bombers launched their assault. The death toll from Tuesday’s gun and suicide bomb spree at Ataturk airport has risen to 44, state-run news agency Anadolu said, with more than 200...
