Section: Dunya TV (Pakistan)
Record numbers trying and dying to reach Europe: UN
Geneva (AFP) – More than 3,400 people have died in the Mediterranean this year trying to reach Europe, the UN refugee agency said Wednesday, urging governments to take more action to save lives.More than 207,000 people have made the risky sea crossing since January, almost three times the previous high of 70,000 during the Libyan civil war...
Netherlands gets wreckage from Ukraine plane crash
AMSTERDAM (AP) — A convoy of eight trucks carrying wreckage from the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster arrived at a Dutch military base Tuesday, as the official investigation into the cause of the crash continues nearly five months after the plane went down in eastern Ukraine.Flight 17 was shot down on July 17 over territory held by...
Merkel blasts Russia as bloody Ukraine clashes rage
KIEV, (AFP) – Ukraine on Sunday reported the death of eight more civilians and two soldiers in fighting with pro-Russian insurgents as German Chancellor Angela Merkel accused the Kremlin of interfering in Kievs pro-European drive.The latest casualties across the Russian-speaking Donetsk and Lugansk regions came two days ahead of the planned...
Five civilians killed in fresh east Ukraine violence
KIEV, (AFP) – Five civilians have been killed in fresh violence in eastern Ukraine, where more explosions and gunfire rang out on Sunday, two days before the start of a planned truce, officials said.Three civilians were killed and 10 were wounded overnight in the rebel bastion of Donetsk, where further explosions and gunfire were heard...
Putin, Hollande attempt to defuse Ukraine tensions
MOSCOW (AFP) – French President Francois Hollande on Saturday became the first European leader to travel to Russia in an attempt to defuse the standoff with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine, as Kiev announced a fresh round of peace talks next week.Hollandes meeting with Putin in the diplomatic terminal of an airport outside the capital came as...
IMF announces Ukraine rescue visit
KIEV: (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund said on Saturday it would dispatch a team to Ukraine to determine just how much extra aid the war-wrecked and energy-starved nation will need to make it through winter.The nine-day visit due to start on Tuesday comes as Ukraine suffers rolling blackouts and resentment grows over a severe...
Greek PM outraged by British Museum sculpture loan
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum has loaned one of the Parthenon Marbles to Russias Hermitage Museum the first time in 200 years that any of the ancient sculptures has left Britain. The move outraged Greece, which has demanded that the marbles be permanently returned.The marble sculpture of the river god Ilissos a reclining male figure from...
Domracheva wins women’s 15k biathlon
OSTERSUND, Sweden (AP) – Olympic champion Darya Domracheva of Belarus won the womens 15-kilometer individual race at the biathlon World Cup on Thursday.Domracheva took an early lead and claimed her 20th World Cup victory in 46 minutes, 43.6 seconds, with two penalties.She came in 27.9 seconds ahead of Kaisa Makarainen of Finland, who missed...
Online freedom suffered this year; declined in 36 of 65
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Internet freedom suffered this year as a growing number of countries stepped up efforts to spy on users and censor online postings, a global survey showed Thursday.The report by the non-government watchdog group Freedom House said online freedom declined in 36 of 65 countries surveyed.In some cases, governments use...
Kerry says any Iran strikes against IS ‘positive’
Brussels (AFP) – US Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed any Iranian military action against Islamic State jihadists in Iraq as positive after the Pentagon said Tehran had carried out air strikes against the group.Kerry, hosting a meeting of an anti-IS coalition in Brussels, said international air strikes were finally stopping the advance...
