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Dutch team at MH17 crash site to collect more remains
THE HAGUE: A Dutch team is at the MH17 crash site in war-torn Ukraine to collect more remains of the 298 people killed when the Malaysia Airlines jetliner crashed in July, officials said on Monday. “At the moment there’s a small team at the crash site,” Dutch defence ministry spokeswoman Marloes Visser told AFP....
Australia, Britain slam IS hostage killing at defence talks
SYDNEY: The Australian and British foreign ministers Sunday slammed the killing of a Japanese journalist by the Islamic State (IS) group as they vowed to tackle the jihadist threat at defence talks in Sydney. British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond is in Australia for the annual meeting with his counterpart Julie Bishop, with efforts to counter...
Opposition blogger may have ‘outed’ Putin’s daughter
MOSCOW: One of Vladimir Putin’s main opponents may have broken a taboo by publishing what he says is the pseudonym used by one the Russian president’s daughters to stay out of the spotlight. Putin has made his and his family’s private life little less than a state secret, keeping his rarely-photographed daughters Yekaterina, 28,...
Gorbachev warns of risk of armed conflict in new Cold War
MOSCOW: The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev last week accused the US of drawing Russia into a new Cold War and said he feared hostilities could escalate into armed conflict. The US “has already drawn us into a new Cold War, trying openly to achieve its main idea of triumphalism,” Gorbachev said in an interview with the Interfax news agency....
HRW: Rights abuses fuelled rise of Islamic militants
WASHINGTON: Governments increasingly view human rights as “a luxury” they can ill afford, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, warning that abuses fuel crises in world trouble spots like Syria and Ukraine. Western powers, including the United States, are far from blameless and in some cases their wrongdoing has fed the very climate in...
Court: Dutch can extradite Russian ‘megahacker’ to US
THE HAGUE: A Dutch court ruled Tuesday that a Russian accused of one of the largest US corporate hacks of more than 160 million credit card details can be extradited to the US. “The Dutch state may extradite Russian hacker Vladimir Drinkman to the United States,” The Hague district court said in a statement. The ruling comes after...
FBI arrests alleged Russian spy in New York
NEW YORK: Federal agents on Monday arrested an alleged Russian spy in New York accused of trying to recruit sources and collect economic intelligence while working as a Manhattan banker, officials said. US prosecutors named the alleged covert intelligence agent as Evgeny Buryakov, 39. He appeared before Judge Sarah Netburn in a Manhattan federal...
Australia PM in ‘time warp’ as British royal knighted
SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (pix) marked his country’s national day Monday by honouring Britain’s Prince Philip with a knighthood, sparking criticism from the opposition of being in a “time warp”. Abbott said Queen Elizabeth II had accepted his recommendation that her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, be...
Colombia’s Paulina Vega wins Miss Universe title
DORAL, United States: Colombia’s Paulina Vega (pix) was crowned Miss Universe Sunday, beating out contenders from the United States, Ukraine, Jamaica and The Netherlands at the world’s top beauty pageant in Florida. The 22-year-old model and business student triumphed over 87 other women from around the world, and is only the second...
World leaders converge on Saudi after king’s death
RIYADH: World leaders converged on Saudi Arabia on Saturday to offer condolences following the death of King Abdullah, with US President Barack Obama cutting short a trip to India to pay respects. One after another, foreign aircraft landed at a Riyadh military base where leaders from Africa, Europe and Asia descended a red-carpeted ramp to be...
