Section: theSun (Malaysia)
Montenegro invited to join Nato despite Russian ire
BRUSSELS: Nato invited Montenegro on Wednesday to become the 29th member of the US-led military alliance, defying Russian warnings it would be a provocation and threat to stability in Europe. The invitation to the small Balkan country comes with the West at loggerheads with Moscow over a host of issues, as Nato has responded to the Ukraine crisis...
Focus on IS, Obama tells Russia, Turkey
LE BOURGET, France: US President Barack Obama (pix) led calls Tuesday for Turkey and Russia to end their dispute over the downing of a Russian fighter jet and focus instead on the real enemy – Islamic State jihadists. It came as Obama’s Pentagon chief said the US would increasingly rely on special operations forces to battle IS fighters in...
Dutch policeman held for online sale of MH17 ‘souvenirs’
THE HAGUE: Dutch police have suspended an officer who tried to sell online souvenirs said to have come from the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 shot down over war-torn Ukraine last year. The man is under arrest for embezzlement and an investigation has been launched and the man is under arrest for embezzlement, police said in a...
Ukraine halts goods deliveries to Crimea amid new tensions with Russia
KIEV: Ukraine announced Monday the suspension of goods deliveries to Crimea and threatened a tit-for-tat ban on food imports from Russia as tensions with Moscow flare over the annexed peninsula. The Ukrainian interior minister also suggested that the government cut off power supplies to the annexed peninsula which declared a state of emergency at...
France says Russia open to cooperation in fight against Islamic State in Syria
PARIS: French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Thursday that Russia was sincere in wanting to cooperate in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria. “There is an opening, so to speak, with the Russians. We think they are sincere and we must bring together all our forces,” Fabius told France Inter radio. Relations...
7 Afghans among 8 dead in Ukrainian chopper crash
BRATISLAVA: Eight people including seven Afghan migrants died earlier this week when a helicopter registered in Ukraine crashed in eastern Slovakia, the interior ministry in Bratislava said Saturday, updating a previous toll. Ministry spokesman Ivan Netik said the victims of the crash, which likely occurred overnight Tuesday to Wednesday,...
Seven dead in Slovakia in crash of helicopter possibly people
BRATISLAVA: A helicopter flown from Ukraine possibly smuggling migrants crashed in a remote part of eastern Slovakia, killing at least seven people, authorities said Friday. Slovakian police believe the flight was carrying illegal migrants over the European Union’s outer border, Interior Ministry spokesman Ivan Netik told dpa. The number of...
Russian artist held for torching security service HQ door
MOSCOW: Russian authorities on Monday detained a political performance artist best known for nailing his scrotum to Red Square after he torched the doors to the headquarters of the FSB security service, the successor to the KGB. Pyotr Pavlensky set fire to the wooden doors of the sprawling FSB building in downtown Moscow around 1am (Monday 6am...
Fears of new flareup in Ukraine as violence grows on frontline
PISKY, Ukraine: It’s been only two months since Yelena Krivonos stopped sleeping in her cellar to hide from shelling, but now that violence has ticked up in eastern Ukraine she is headed back underground. “Combat has begun again,” the 31-year-old mother of two said after taking warm clothing for herself and her children to the...
US defence chief warns of conflict in S. China Sea
SIMI VALLEY: US defence secretary Ashton Carter on Saturday warned that land reclamation efforts and a military build-up in the South China Sea could lead to conflict between nations in the region. Speaking at a defence forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, the Pentagon chief also said America was adapting its military...
