Section: theSun (Malaysia)
Ukraine film director goes on trial in Russia
ROSTOV-ON-DON: A Ukrainian film director went on trial on terror charges in southern Russia on Tuesday, after Moscow held him for more than a year in a case decried by Kiev, rights groups and prominent film directors across the globe. Oleg Sentsov flicked a victory sign at several dozen supporters and reporters as he filed into the defendant cage...
Russia submits alternative UN resolution on MH17
UNITED NATIONS: Russia on Monday introduced an alternative draft resolution at the UN Security Council in a bid to thwart the creation of a tribunal that would prosecute those responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over rebel-held east Ukraine. The Netherlands, whose citizens made up the majority of the 298 people killed in...
Russian cheese smuggler was up to no gouda
MOSCOW: Russian customs officials said Monday they had foiled a bid to smuggle nearly half a tonne of cheese into the country from the European Union, whose food is subject to retaliatory sanctions. A man attempted to drive from Poland into the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad with 460kg of cheese stuffed in the trunk and backseat of his car, the...
8,000 HIV patients at risk in Eastern Ukraine
VANCOUVER: Some 8,000 people with HIV in war-torn eastern Ukraine face a critical shortage of medicine and their supply will run out in mid-August unless a blockade is lifted, a UN AIDS envoy has warned. Speaking to AFP ahead of the International AIDS Society (IAS) conference, which opened Sunday, Michel Kazatchkine called on key nations to...
Three killed, hospital shelled in east Ukraine
DONETSK, Ukraine: Two civilians and a soldier have been killed in the latest fighting in eastern Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels and the government said Sunday, with Kiev warning of a “deteriorating” situation in the rebel-held city of Donetsk. A man was killed during shelling Saturday night in Donetsk and a female doctor was injured when...
Memorials for MH17 victims as calls grow for justice
NIEUWEGEIN: Relatives of those killed when flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine exactly a year ago joined emotional memorials on Friday as calls mounted for a UN-backed tribunal to prosecute those responsible for the tragedy. All 298 passengers and crew – the majority of them Dutch – died on July 17 last year when the Malaysia Airlines Boeing...
MH17: Australia ‘sickened’ by new footage on anniversary
SYDNEY: Australia Friday said it was ‘sickened’ after new footage emerged allegedly of Russian-backed rebels ransacking the luggage of passengers killed after Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, as a ceremony marked the disaster’s one-year anniversary. The video was obtained by Sydney’s Daily Telegraph and published...
Putin tells Dutch PM MH17 tribunal would be counterproductive: Kremlin
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday told Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte that establishing an international tribunal to prosecute those behind the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine would be counterproductive. “Vladimir Putin in detail explained the Russian position regarding the premature and...
Eight Ukraine soldiers killed in past 24 hours: Kiev
KIEV: Eight Ukrainian troops have been killed and 16 wounded in the war-torn east as pro-Russian rebels launched one of their fiercest attacks since the signing of a shaky ceasefire deal, Kiev security officials said on Wednesday. “Over the past day there was one of the most intense bombardments of Ukrainian territory since the signing of...
MH17: Dutch remember victims, hunt those responsible
THE HAGUE: Dutch flags will fly at half-mast Friday as families remember those killed when flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine a year ago, with all efforts now focused on catching those responsible. Around 2,000 grieving relatives are expected at a private ceremony in the central Netherlands, with Prime Minister Mark Rutte and other...
