Section: Dunya TV (Pakistan)
32 feared dead in east Ukraine mine blast
DONETSK (AFP) – Thirty-two miners in eastern Ukraine were missing and feared dead Wednesday following an explosion at a coal mine in the rebel-held city of Donetsk.The blast took place at Zasyadko mine in the separatist hub of Donetsk, near the citys war-wrecked airport.The chairman of Ukraines parliament, Volodymyr Groysman, announced 32...
Malaysia still top choice for Muslim travellers: report
SINGAPORE (AFP) – Malaysia is the most preferred global destination in the fast-growing Muslim travel market, despite two catastrophic air disasters that hit the countrys flag-carrier in 2014, a survey showed Wednesday.Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Indonesia followed Malaysia in the ranking of choice holiday...
Over 30 miners killed in east Ukraine mine blast
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – At least 32 miners were killed Wednesday in a blast at a coal mine in a rebel-held area of eastern Ukraine, a senior politician and a mining union spokemsan saidThe blast took place near the bombed-out shell of Donetsk airport. The city has been the focus of a nearly year-long conflict between government forces and...
Lavillenie set to shine at indoor Euro
PRAGUE (AFP) – French pole vault star Renaud Lavillenie owns a world record that long seemed impossible to reach, but he will be hungry for more as the European Athletics Indoor Championships start in Prague on Thursday.The 28-year-old won three consecutive European indoor titles from 2009-2013, then went on to vault 6.16 metres a year ago...
Greeks bearing grudges rip up Brussels diplomatic rulebook
Athens (AFP) – Strapped for cash and under pressure to deliver on reforms, Greeces new radical government has ruffled feathers in Brussels by not respecting the diplomatic niceties of the negotiating table.From 40-year-old Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras downwards, Greek officials have gone into EU meetings in fighting mood, their hard talk...
Netanyahu denounces Obama push for Iran nuclear deal
Washington (AFP) – Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced President Barack Obamas drive for a nuclear accord with Iran, warning Washington is paving Tehrans path to a bomb.After Netanyahu delivered an impassioned address to the US Congress, an exasperated Obama retorted that the Israeli leader had no plan of his own to contain...
Football: Bayern’s Guardiola dimisses Man City rumours
BERLIN (AFP) – Pep Guardiola said Tuesday he will only decide his Bayern Munich future at the end of the season and dismissed rumours of a move to Manchester City.Guardiola has been tipped as a possible candidate to replace City coach Manuel Pellegrini, but the Spaniard poured cold water on any speculation.I have had no offers and I am not...
MH17 next of kin finally view wreckage of downed flight
GILZE-RIJEN AIR BASE, Netherlands: (AP) – The relatives of those killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed over eastern Ukraine visited a Dutch air base Tuesday to view the wreckage of the plane.For almost all of them, it was the first chance to see the twisted and charred wreckage that lay for months in the fields of war-torn...
EU condemns ‘arbitrary’ Nemtsov funeral bans
BRUSSELS (AFP) – The EU on Tuesday condemned Russias arbitrary refusal to allow several prominent European figures to attend the funeral of assassinated opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.Latvian MEP Sandra Kalniete and Polish Senate speaker Bogdan Borusewicz were both denied entry by Moscow, which faces EU sanctions over the crisis in...
OSCE to monitor truce violation areas: Kiev
KIEV (AFP) – The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany have agreed to send observers to flashpoint sites in eastern Ukraine as sporadic deadly attacks continue to rattle a shaky truce, Kiev said Tuesday.Ukraines Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin described the situation on the ground as very difficult and tense, three weeks after a...
