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Berlin knew Ukraine flight dangers before MH17 crash: Reports
Berlin knew the risks of flying over war-torn east Ukraine before Flight MH17 was shot out of the sky last year but did not inform German airlines, local media reported on Sunday (Apr 26). …read more Source: Channel...
Putin says ‘no regrets’ over Crimea annexation
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview to mark 15 years in power, said he has no regrets over Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea as it overturned “a historical injustice.” …read more Source: The Times of...
Berlin knew Ukraine flight dangers before MH17 crash
FRANKFURT: Berlin knew the risks of flying over war-torn east Ukraine before Flight MH17 was shot out of the sky last year but did not inform German airlines, local media reported on Sunday. Investigators are still trying to determine who was responsible for downing the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 in July last year, killing all 298 passengers...
Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev ‘wins fifth term by a landslide’
ASTANA (AFP) – Energy-rich Kazakhstans incumbent strongman Nursultan Nazarbayev scored a crushing victory in Sundays one-sided presidential ballot, taking 97.5 percent of the vote to win a fifth consecutive term, an exit poll showed.The exit poll carried out by the Institute for Democracy, a research company based in the authoritarian...
Ukraine marks 29 years since Chernobyl disaster
Ukrainians have marked 29 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, placing wreaths and candles near the plant where work to lay a new seal over the reactor site has been delayed. …read more Source: The Times of...
Ukraine marks 29 years since Chernobyl disaster
SLAVUTYCH: Ukrainians on Sunday marked 29 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, placing wreaths and candles near the plant where work to lay a new seal over the reactor site has been delayed. The explosion of reactor number four on April 26, 1986, spewed poisonous radiation over large parts of Europe, particularly Ukraine, Belarus and...
Embattled Ukraine fights for debt deal on financial front
KIEV – As government troops face off against pro-Russian separatists, Ukraine is also manoeuvring on the financial front, scrambling to stave off disaster by renegotiating its foreign debts. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Putin says ‘no regrets’ over Crimea annexation
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he had no regrets over Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and that it was righting a historical injustice. …read more Source: Bangkok...
‘No regrets’ on Crimea, says Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview broadcast today that he had no regrets over Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and that it was righting a historical injustice. “I think we did the right thing and I don’t regret a thing,” Putin said of his decision to take back the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine,...
Ukraine marks 29 years since Chernobyl disaster
SLAVUTYCH, Ukraine – Ukrainians on Sunday marked 29 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, laying wreaths and candles near the plant where work to lay a new seal over the reactor site has been delayed.The explosion of reactor number four on April 26, 1986, spewed poisonous radiation over large parts of Europe, particularly Ukraine,...
