Section: The News International (Pakistan)
Ukrainians accuse prosecutors of abetting corruption
KIEV: Ukrainian activists on Wednesday held a protest in central Kiev accusing the country’s powerful prosecutors of obstructing a newly formed national agency that has exposed massive official corruption. Some 100 protesters gathered outside the office of prosecutor-general Yuri Lutsenko holding posters saying: “Lutsenko, don’t...
Heady days fade for Russians who halted 1991 coup
MOSCOW: It was a desperate plea from then Russian leader Boris Yeltsin that drew Gennady Veretilny to the barricades going up around the White House in central Moscow. “I wasn’t a supporter of Yeltsin, I wasn’t a liberal or a Communist. I wasn’t a party man,” Veretilny told AFP, recalling the events of 25 years ago...
Russia can outgun UK troops, leaked report suggests
‘UK, Nato allies were ‘scrambling to catch up’ with Russia’s ability to use electronic means to hijack enemy drones and disrupt other military transmissions, which were described as a real game changer’ By Barney Henderson The Russian army can outgun British troops on the battlefield, a leaked report suggests, following military...
?Putin made Trump an unwitting agent of Russia?
WASHINGTON: A former top CIA official attacked Donald Trump on Friday as a danger to national security, saying President Vladimir Putin had made the Republican presidential candidate an “unwitting agent” of Russia. Putin had flattered Trump into supporting positions favourable to Russia, Michael Morell, a longtime CIA officer and...
Ukraine pilot Savchenko launches new hunger strike
KIEV: A Ukrainian pilot released from a Russian jail in May launched a fresh hunger strike Tuesday in protest over Kiev’s failure to secure the return of other prisoners of war in the separatist east. A Russian court sentenced the 35-year-old army helicopter navigator Nadiya Savchenko to 22 years in prison in March over the 2014 killing of...
Ukraine detains top ally of ousted president
KIEV: Ukraine said it had detained a top ally of ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych on Saturday, accusing him of causing harm to the “territorial integrity” of the crisis-hit country. Law enforcement authorities detained Oleksandr Yefremov accusing him of “infringement on the territorial integrity of Ukraine,” Prosecutor-General Yuriy...
Three Ukrainian soldiers killed in separatist east
KIEV: Three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and another three wounded in fresh clashes between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in the country’s separatist east, the military said on Monday. Two servicemen were killed by mortar fire near Avdiivka, an industrial hub 10 kilometres north of the rebels’ de-facto capital...
Hundreds pay homage to slain Ukraine reporter
KIEV: Hundreds of mourners shed tears and laid flowers on Friday at the open casket of a top reporter whose targeted car-bomb slaying sent shock waves through Ukraine’s tight-knit journalistic community. Wednesday’s death of Pavel Sheremet — a 44-year-old columnist for Ukrainska Pravda — came 16 years after the beheading...
Seven Ukraine troops die in worst clashes in two months
KIEV: Ukraine said on Tuesday seven of its soldiers had been killed and 14 wounded in “very heated” fighting that marked the bloodiest clashes with pro-Russian separatists in two months. The announcement — the highest daily death toll since Ukraine reported seven of its soldiers dying on May 24 — follows a flurry of talks...
Two years on, Ukraine villagers mourn at MH17 crash site
PETROPAVLIVKA, Ukraine: Dozens of villagers carried flowers and lit candles on Sunday at the site in rebel-held eastern Ukraine where flight MH17 crashed two years ago, killing all 298 people on board. About 60 people joined the vigil on the small square of the village of Petropavlivka where some of the remains and personal belongings of...
