Section: Philippines
Malaysia shuts down first sharia-compliant airline
KUALA LUMPUR: Rayani Air, Malaysia’s first Islamic-compliant airline, has been shut down, regulators said Monday, months after it was suspended from flying for breaching aviation regulations. The carrier launched only in December with Muslim flight crew wearing the hijab while non-Muslim members were forbidden from wearing revealing...
Schweinsteiger is back as Germany starts Euro 2016 with win
LILLE, France – Bastian Schweinsteiger had time for 3 touches of the ball and scored with one as world champions Germany started their European Championship campaign with a 2-0 win over Ukraine. The 31-year-old Manchester United midfielder came on in the 90th minute and quickly put away a perfect pass from … …read more Source:...
Hundreds attend tightly-policed gay pride march in central Kiev
KIEV: More than 700 gay-rights activists held a peaceful march through central Kiev on Sunday amid an unprecedented security operation in the ex-Soviet country where homophobia remains widespread. Sunday’s march was the third such gay pride rally in Ukraine but the first ever to be held in the center of the capital Kiev. Several thousand...
Hundreds attend tightly-policed gay pride march in central Kiev
KIEV, Ukraine – More than 700 gay rights activists marched through central Kiev on Sunday, June 12, prompting an unprecedented security operation in the ex-Soviet country where homophobia remains widespread. Sunday’s march was the third such gay pride rally in Ukraine but the first ever to be held in the … …read more Source:...
Boxing: Lomachenko knocks out Martinez for historic 2nd title
NEW YORK: Ukraine’s Vasyl Lomachenko knocked out Roman Martinez on Saturday to grab the World Boxing Organization super featherweight world title — his second world belt in just his seventh pro bout. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Lomachenko sent Puerto Rico’s Martinez sprawling on his back with a devastating left uppercut-right hook...
Brexit ‘disastrous’ for EU global role — analysts
BRUSSELS: Britain leaving the European Union would strip the bloc of a nuclear-armed global player and prove “disastrous” for its presence on the world stage, analysts say. The timing could hardly be worse, as the EU struggles with its biggest migration crisis since World War II and the continent facing a growing threat from terrorism fueled by...
Lomachenko knocks out Martinez for historic second world title
NEW YORK, USA – Ukraine’s Vasyl Lomachenko knocked out Roman Martinez on Saturday to grab the World Boxing Organization super featherweight world title – his second world belt in just his seventh pro bout. Two-time Olympic gold medallist Lomachenko sent Puerto Rico’s Martinez sprawling on … …read more Source:...
Crimea unveils gun-toting statue to celebrate Russian annexation
SIMFEROPOL: The authorities in Crimea on Saturday unveiled a bronze statue of a heavily armed Russian soldier to celebrate the peninsula’s 2014 annexation from Ukraine. The slightly larger-than-life sculpture in Crimea’s main city of Simferopol shows a soldier carrying a Kalashnikov and wearing rounds of ammunition on his chest. A...
Thousands protest OSCE presence in rebel-held Ukraine
DONETSK, Ukraine: More than 5,000 people rallied Friday in Donetsk, the main base of pro-Russian insurgents in east Ukraine, to protest the presence of OSCE monitors in the war-ravaged region. The demonstration was the latest in a series of rallies organized by pro-Moscow rebels against the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe—a...
OSCE says staff member missing in rebel-held Ukraine
KIEV: Foreign monitors observing Ukraine’s separatist conflict said on Wednesday that one of their local staff has gone missing in the pro-Russian east. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said a member of its Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) did not return from a planned vacation on Tuesday and was reportedly...
