Section: theSun (Malaysia)
MH17 families plan Dutch memorial for victims
THE HAGUE: The families who lost loved ones in the shooting down of flight MH17 Saturday began voting on where to build a national memorial in the Netherlands to honour the dead. Three proposals were unveiled Saturday for monuments to remember the 298 people, mostly Dutch nationals, killed in the 2014 air disaster. Dutch-led investigators...
Ukraine famine memorial unveiled in US capital
WASHINGTON: A monument commemorating the millions of Ukrainians who died during a Soviet-era famine was unveiled in the US capital Saturday, in a ceremony that brought back horrific memories for survivors. “It’s terrible, I will never forget,” 90-year-old Alla Gromow, in a wheelchair, said as she recalled how neighbors engaged...
Ukraine probes ‘sniper attack’ on top prosecutor
KIEV: Ukraine on Tuesday launched a criminal probe into an alleged sniper attack on a top prosecutor who had been probing President Petro Poroshenko’s main political and business foes. The reported assassination bid would mark yet another unwanted political conflict in a crisis-hit country whose 18-month eastern pro-Russian revolt has...
UN body calls for Malaysia’s Anwar to be freed: Family
KUALA LUMPUR: A UN body has determined that former Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been jailed in violation of international law and called for his immediate release, according to a copy of the opinion released Monday by his family. Anwar, 68, was jailed in February for five years after being convicted for sodomising a male aide. He...
Bodies of Egypt crash victims arrive in Russia
SAINT PETERSBURG: A plane carrying the remains of 144 people killed when a Russian airliner crashed in Egypt landed in Saint Petersburg early on Monday, hours after investigators probing the doomed flight said it had broken up in the air. The emergency Russian plane, the first to bring back the bodies of those who died when the A-321 plummeted...
Russian plane broke up ‘in the air’ says expert probing crash
WADI AL-ZOLOMAT, Egypt: A Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt broke up “in the air” strewing fragments across a wide area, an expert said Sunday as investigators probed the disaster that killed 224 people. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged patience to determine the cause of Saturday’s crash, after the Islamic State...
Egypt rescuers widen search for Russian plane crash victims
EL-HASANA, Egypt: Egyptian rescue teams were looking Sunday for more victims of a Russian passenger plane crash in Sinai, widening the search after finding bodies scattered for kilometres a day after the incident. A military officer helping with the search told AFP that rescuers had found 163 bodies out of a total of 224 people who were on board...
Moscow fury as Swiss jet comes ‘dangerously’ close to official plane
MOSCOW: Russia on Monday lashed out after a Swiss warplane flew “dangerously close” to one of its passenger jets carrying a senior parliamentary delegation, although Switzerland defended it as a routine check. The incident, which took place on Monday morning, initially sparked a diplomatic spat between Moscow and Paris after the...
12 killed in Ukraine boat capsize near Odessa
KIEV: At least 12 people drowned Saturday when an overloaded passenger boat capsized in the Black Sea near Odessa in southern Ukraine, officials said. “The reason for this tragedy were storms and an absence of life jackets. Twelve people drowned and one is missing,” said Volodymyr Jmak, a deputy of the governor of Odessa region. He...
MH17 prosecutors face tricky task of catching culprits
THE HAGUE: A Dutch-led criminal probe to find those responsible for shooting down flight MH17 has now become the top priority after the cause of the crash was unveiled, but doubts remain whether the culprits will ever be caught. Analysts said Wednesday that Russia’s cooperation in the investigation to identify those behind the downing of...
