Section: Dunya TV (Pakistan)
World losing capacity to prevent conflict: UN refugee chief
ANKARA (AFP) – The world is losing its ability to prevent conflicts and the lack of effective leadership has led to the worst displacement situation since World War II, the UN refugee chief warned Tuesday.Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said in Ankara that the twin crises in Iraq and Syria had created a serious...
Hollande urges Greece to stick to EU pledges after ‘Grexit’ fears
Paris (AFP) – French President Francois Hollande on Monday urged Greece to abide by its European commitments, as the spectre of a Greek exit from the eurozone rears its head again.The Greeks are free to choose their own destiny. But, having said that, there are certain engagements that have been made and all those must be of course...
Ukraine TV lands in hot water over Russian pop songs
KIEV (AFP) – One of Ukraines biggest TV networks faced the threat Friday of being taken off air for filling its highly-rated New Years Eve show with Russian pop songs beamed live from Moscow.The culture minister called the festive if at-times gaudy programme anti-Ukrainian. The national security and defence council chief saw it as part of a...
Recovery teams narrow AirAsia search
PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AFP) – Indonesian recovery teams narrowed the search area for AirAsia Flight 8501 Friday, hopeful they were closing in on the planes crash site, with a total of 30 bodies and more debris recovered from the sea.French and Singaporean investigators joined the hunt for the Airbus A320-200, which disappeared from radar...
Searchers hopeful in AirAsia search
PANGKALAN BUN (AFP) – Indonesian recovery teams narrowed the search area for AirAsia Flight 8501 Friday, hopeful they were closing in on the planes crash site, with a total of 16 bodies and more debris recovered from the sea.French and Singaporean investigators with equipment for detecting the signal from the planes black boxes were set to...
Kerry, Lavrov discuss Ukraine and Middle East crises
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Top US diplomat John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov spoke Thursday to discuss the crises in the Middle East and Ukraine, officials said.Secretary Kerry and Foreign Minister Lavrov spoke by phone today. They discussed the situation in the Middle East and Ukraine, according to a senior State Department...
Thousands of Ukraine nationalists march in Kiev
KIEV (AFP) – Thousands of Ukrainian nationalists held a torchlight procession across Kiev on Thursday in honour of a World War II anti-Soviet insurgent dismissed by Moscow as a Nazi collaborator.The march on what would have been Stepan Banderas 106th birthday moved along the same streets on which masses rallied for three months last winter...
118 journalists killed in 2014: IFJ
BRUSSELS (AFP) – One hundred and eighteen journalists and media staff were killed around the world in 2014, with Pakistan and Syria the deadliest countries, the International Federation of Journalists said Wednesday.The IFJ said those killed, 13 more than in 2013, were either targeted for their work or caught in the cross-fire while another...
Indonesia vows ‘all-out effort’ in search for AirAsia victims
Pangkalan Bun (Indonesia) (AFP) – Indonesian searchers promised an all-out effort Thursday to locate bodies from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 as international investigators joined the hunt for the ill-fated plane.Seven bodies have so far been retrieved in the search for the Airbus A320-200, which crashed into the Java Sea with 162 people on board...
Lithuania joins eurozone to seal ties with West
Vilnius (AFP) – Lithuania switched over to the euro on Thursday, becoming the last Baltic nation to adopt Europes single currency in a bid to boost stability despite fears of inflation and eurozone debt woes.Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius withdrew his first 10-euro bill ($12) from a Vilnius cash machine after midnight, as the euro...
