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Drunk passenger forces Malaysia Airlines flight to turn back
KUALA LAMPUR: A Malaysia Airlines flight to Colombo had to turn back to Kuala Lumpur due to a drunk passenger, the national carrier said on Sunday. Flight MH179 had taken off from Kuala Lumpur late on Saturday. “The intoxicated passenger started harassing Malaysia Airlines’ crew shortly after the flight was airborne,” the company said in a...
Russia stages huge military parade
MOSCOW – Thousands of Russian troops marched across Red Square, tanks rumbled through the streets and jets screamed overhead on Saturday in a huge military parade marking the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany. Western leaders boycotted the parade over Russia’s role in the Ukraine crisis but President Vladimir Putin was...
Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov says talks will focus on Ukrainian internal conflict settlement issues.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is holding a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Sunday. Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said the talks will focus on Ukrainian internal conflict settlement issues. …read more Source: Radio...
Poles vote for president, incumbent Komorowski tipped to win
WARSAW (AFP) – Poles vote Sunday in the first round of a presidential election after a lacklustre campaign focused on national security and social issues, with incumbent Bronislaw Komorowski expected to win, but not without a struggle.The 62-year-old historian, who was elected in 2010 and is close to the governing centrist Civic Platform...
Ukraine rebels release two US aid workers
DONETSK – Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko said Saturday that insurgents had released two US aid workers detained for alleged spying. ‘We have freed two Americans that we arrested earlier. One of the two is a CIA agent, the other was enlisted,’ Zakharchenko told journalists, without giving further...
Russia fuels tanks and helicopters on Victory Day
MOSCOW- Thousands of troops marched across Moscow’s Red Square today and tanks rumbled through streets to mark the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany, an event boycotted by Western leaders over Russia’s role in the Ukraine crisis. Russia’s Vladimir Putin has used the anniversary to whip up patriotism and fuel...
Russia fetes WWII victory with huge military parade
Moscow (AFP) – Russia readied for a grandiose Red Square military parade Saturday to mark 70 years since the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, but Western leaders were going to stay away due to the Ukraine crisis.New tanks, mammoth nuclear missile systems and some 16,000 troops were set to sweep past the Kremlin under the gaze of...
Ukraine breaks with Russia as it marks WWII anniversary amid fighting
KIEV (AFP) – A new symbol, date and even name: Ukraine is distancing itself from Russia as it marks 70 years since victory over Nazi Germany in World War II while locked in a brutal conflict with pro-Moscow rebels.For the first time the ex-Soviet country that lost millions of soldiers and civilians in fighting on both sides of the frontline...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko slams ‘appeasement’ of Moscow
GDANSK (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday criticised what he termed a policy of appeasement towards Russia in the context of the separatist conflict in Ukraines east.Crimes are committed today in the 21st century amid the aggression against my country Ukraine, despite the cruelest lessons of the past, Poroshenko said...
Football: Vidal leads Sevilla rout, Napoli held
PARIS (AFP) – A brace of stunning goals from Aleix Vidal helped defending champions Sevilla to a commanding 3-0 victory over Fiorentina in the first leg of the Europa League semi-finals on Thursday.In Italy, Napoli dominated large parts of their first leg match against Dnipro, but the Ukrainian underdogs scrapped it out for an unlikely 1-1...
