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MH17: Russia promises all out effort to facilitate probe, says Najib
BEIJING: Russia has pledged that it would do everything in its power to facilitate the investigation into the Malaysia Airlines’ flight MH17 crash over eastern Ukraine in July, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said. …read more Source: New Straits...
Amid currency gyrations, Russia floats ruble
As an acrobat in one of Moscow’s circuses, Yuri Friyuk is an expert at gyrating without falling on his face. Lately, he’s worried about whether the rubles he’s paid with can be as deft.Plagued by the Western sanctions imposed over the Ukraine crisis and by falling oil prices, Russia’s economy is struggling and the ruble is...
World › Putin blames Ukraine for obstructing MH17 inquiry
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ukraine’s government of interfering with the investigation into the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jet in July that killed 298 people. Independent investigators have had little access to the wreckage of flight MH17 in territory in eastern Ukraine in the hands of pro-Russian… …read...
UK Doesn’t Want New Cold War With Russia But Can’t Ignore Ukraine: David Cameron
Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday Britain didn’t want a new Cold War with Russia, but signalled he was ready to back tougher sanctions against Moscow if it continued to destabilise Ukraine. …read more Source:...
UK doesn't want new Cold War with Russia but can't ignore Ukraine – Cameron
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday Britain didn’t want a new Cold War with Russia, but signalled he was ready to back tougher sanctions against Moscow if it continued to destabilise Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine's currency plunges as ceasefire fears grow
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine’s currency lost nearly 5 percent of its value on Monday after a weekend that saw the heaviest shelling in a month hit the main rebel stronghold in the east and signs that Moscow had dispatched troops and tanks to reinforce separatists. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine blocking MH17 probe, Putin tells Najib
BEIJING: Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday accused the Ukraine government of interfering in the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in July. …read more Source: New Straits...
‘Wagah a crystalline, horrible symbol of what’s wrong with Pak’
Strobe Talbott, former US deputy secretary of state who now heads the Brookings Institution think tank, tells Rakesh Sinha why China’s assertiveness in the region is worrisome, and why no sensible American is thinking about an India-US alliance. As someone who has engaged and tracked India very closely, what are your first impressions of...
Fears grow of all-out fight in Ukraine as MH17 families mourn
A pro-Russian gunman stands ensure on Nov 10, 2014 subsequent to tools of a Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 during a pile-up site nearby a encampment of Hrabove (Grabovo), some 80 kms easterly of Donetsk. PHOTO: AFP UKARINE: New unclear armoured columns rumbled toward a pro-Moscow insurgent building of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Monday as fears...
Netherlands holds sombre memorial for MH17 victims
AMSTERDAM: The Netherlands yesterday held a sombre and emotional memorial for the 298 people who died when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over war-torn eastern Ukraine in July.“What if the holiday had started a day later? What if the plane had been late? What if I wake up and realise it was all just a dream?” Prime Minister Mark...
