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MH17 investigation team in Malaysia to discuss legal options
KUALA LUMPUR – A joint team investigating the downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine in 2014 is in Malaysia to discuss options with authorities to set up a tribunal to hold those responsible to account, the Malaysian transport minister said on Thursday. …read more Source: GMA News...
Russia accuses Ukraine of ignoring peace deal
MOSCOW — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused Ukrainian’s government of dragging its feet on implementing last year’s cease-fire agreement. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, welcomes Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier prior a meeting in Moscow, Russia Wednesday, March 23, 2016. (AP...
Ukrainian president’s wife asks US first lady to help Savchenko
KIEV, Ukraine: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s wife appealed to US first lady Michelle Obama on Monday to join the international campaign to secure the release and return of Nadiya Savchenko from Russia. Ukrainian army helicopter pilot Savchenko is accused in the June 2014 killing of two Russian journalists in her war-torn...
Ukraine pilot faces verdict in Russian murder trial decried by Kiev
DONETSK, Russia: Ukrainian helicopter pilot Nadiya Savchenko is set Monday to hear the verdict in her high-profile murder trial in southern Russia, which Kiev and the West have slammed as a political sham. Prosecutors are demanding 23 years in jail for Savchenko’s alleged involvement in killing two Russian state TV journalists in war-torn...
Nadiya Savchenko: Ukraine’s lionized and demonized fighter
KIEV: Nadiya Savchenko is both lionized as a fearless Ukrainian freedom fighter — and demonized as the alleged accomplice in the murder of two Russian reporters in her country’s separatist east. The 34-year-old Ukrainian army pilot has most recently featured on global TV screens wearing patriotic T-shirts inside the glass cage of a Russian...
Ukraine pilot verdict set to drive fresh wedge between Russia and Ukraine
MOSCOW, Russia – Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko awaits the verdict in her controversial trial over the murder of two Russian journalists with few doubting she will be found guilty in a ruling that will fuel the feud between Kiev and Moscow. A court in the southern Russian town of Donetsk … …read more Source:...
Putin visits Crimea to mark 2 years since annexation
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin visited Crimea on Friday as Russia marked two years since annexing the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine in a move that dramatically damaged its ties with the West. The Kremlin strongman stopped over on the island of Tuzla to oversee progress on a $3-billion (2.66-billion-euro) bridge project connecting Russia to...
Russian spacecraft with US grandpa on board docks at space station
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan: A Russian spacecraft carrying three crew to the International Space Station, including a US grandfather who is poised to enter the record books, has successfully docked with the orbital outpost, NASA said. The crew docked at 0309 GMT Saturday some 407 kilometers (253 miles) above the Pacific Ocean, off the western coast of...
Putin visits Crimea to mark 2 years since annexation
MOSCOW, Russia – President Vladimir Putin heads to Crimea on Friday, March 18, as Russia marks two years since annexing the peninsula from Ukraine in a move that dramatically impacted its ties with the West. The Kremlin strongman is to check up on the progress of a $3-billion (2.66-billion-euro) bridge … …read more Source:...
Trump victory a major global risk – EIU
LONDON: The prospect of Donald Trump winning the US presidency represents a global threat on a par with jihadist militancy destabilizing the world economy, according to British research group EIU. In the latest version of its Global Risk assessment, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked victory for the Republican front-runner at 12 on an index...
