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MH370: Families of missing MH370 passengers sue airline as deadline nears
KUALA LUMPUR: The families of 12 passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 filed suits against the airline on Friday before a two-year deadline for legal action expires. MH370 disappeared en route to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew on board. Multiple suits have been filed in the United States, Australian,...
Politics of protest
Useless It seems there is a global rise in street protests from causes ranging from fare increase for students to corruption by status quo politicians. No country is immune from these protests whether it is streets of Sao Palo, Istanbul, Hong Kong and Islamabad just to name few. The major reason for this growing reliance on street protest is the...
U.S. urges Russia to pressure Ukraine rebels over attacks
PARIS (Reuters) – Russia needs to use its influence on separatists in eastern Ukraine to halt attacks by pro-Russian rebels, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Reuters on Friday. …read more Source: The...
US urges Russia to pressure Ukraine rebels over attacks
Russia needs to use its influence on separatists in eastern Ukraine to halt attacks by pro-Russian rebels, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Reuters on Friday. …read more Source: Channel...
Pakistan, China set for near-record wheat harvest in 2016: UN
Pakistan and China are expected to have near-record wheat harvests in 2016, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in its first global forecast for the commodity in the current year on Friday. The FAO forecast for the world’s 2016 wheat harvest projected 723 million tonnes of total production, about 10 million tonnes below last...
How China is transforming military in air, at sea
Chinese 155mm self-propelled howitzers take part in a parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender during World War II held in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, September 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Even though China said its military is growing at a relatively modest pace of about 7 percent this year, it is clear...
Ukrainian pilot to tell Russian court – Free me or watch me starve to death
A Ukrainian woman pilot on trial in Russia over the killing of two Russian journalists plans to tell a court to release her within 10 days of pronouncing its verdict or she will starve herself to death. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukrainian pilot to tell Russian court – Free me or watch me starve to death
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Ukrainian woman pilot on trial in Russia over the killing of two Russian journalists plans to tell a court to release her within 10 days of pronouncing its verdict or she will starve herself to death. …read more Source: The...
Talks in Paris fail to make progress on implementing a peace deal in eastern Ukraine
Talks in Paris aimed at getting the fragile Minsk peace agreement back on track in eastern Ukraine failed to make progress on Thursday ahead of a planned election in the rebel-held Donbass region, according to Euronews. Germany and France, the two main countries behind the accord, had hoped that after months …read more Source: Azerbaijan...
US refuses to reveal details shared with Dutch investigators over MH-17
WASHINGTON – The US State Department has declined to answer questions about what information Washington may have shared with the Dutch authorities in the MH-17 probe, the Russia Today channel reported on Friday. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 on board, most of them...
