Section: AsiaOne (Singapore)
MH17 wreckage arrives at Dutch base for reconstruction
Netherlands – A convoy carrying wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived at a Dutch airbase on Tuesday where it will be reconstructed as part of a probe into the shooting down of the doomed plane.Around 50 relatives of some of the 298 people killed when the plane was blown out of the sky over war-torn Ukraine in July were allowed...
2014 devastating year for children: UN
UNITED NATIONS, United States – 2014 has been a devastating year for children with up to 15 million swept up in wars in the Central African Republic, Iraq, South Sudan, the Palestinian territories, Syria and Ukraine, the UN children’s agency said Monday.”Never in recent memory have so many children been subjected to such...
US, UK join major nuclear weapons conference
VIENNA – The United States and Britain on Monday for the first time attended a global conference discussing the risks posed by nuclear weapons, reversing their snubbing of previous rounds.The two countries are permanent UN Security Council members and among the nine states confirmed or believed to possess nuclear weapns, but shunned...
MH17 wreckage due in Netherlands on Tuesday
THE HAGUE – Wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 will arrive from Ukraine at a Dutch air force base on Tuesday where the plane will be reconstructed as part of probe into the crash.The convoy of lorries carrying pieces of wreckage from Ukraine is due to arrive at the Gilze-Rijen airbase in the south of the country at around 2 pm...
MH17: Dutch authorities to allow victims’ next-of-kin to view arrival of wreckage
PETALING JAYA – Dutch authorities will allow family members of MH17 victims to observe the arrival of the first batch of plane debris in the Netherlands.The Dutch Safety Board, in a statement on its website Saturday, said the first shipment of wreckage from the plane was set to arrive next week, before its components were unloaded,...
Merkel says Russia punishing countries for leaning towards EU
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel accused Russia on Sunday of interfering in the domestic affairs of numerous countries that are seeking closer ties to the European Union.”Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine are three countries in our eastern neighbourhood that have taken sovereign decisions to sign an association agreement with the...
Putin, Hollande in surprise Ukraine talks amid warship controversy
ALMATY, Kazakhstan – French President Francois Hollande will make an unscheduled stop in Moscow on Saturday to discuss the Ukraine crisis with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin amid a bitter dispute over France’s refusal to deliver a warship.Controversy over France’s decision to delay delivery of the warship to Russia under...
Russia’s Gazprom receives prepayment from Ukraine for gas supplies
MOSCOW – Russian natural gas producer Gazprom said on Saturday it had received a prepayment of US$378.22 million from Ukraine for natural gas supplies, paving the way for the first shipments to Kiev since Moscow cut supplies in June.Ukraine’s state energy firm, Naftogaz, said on Friday it had transferred the sum to Gazprom for...
Britain lends headless god to Russia provoking Greek fury
LONDON/ATHENS – A British museum spirited one of the world’s most hotly disputed artistic masterpieces to Russia for a loan on Friday, causing an outcry in Greece, which says the priceless 2,500-year-old statue was looted from Athens and must be returned.The marble statues from the facade of the Parthenon, among the greatest works of...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko tells army not to give up Donetsk airport
KIEV/DONETSK, Ukraine – The whole of Ukraine will be within reach of the “enemy” if its armed forces lose control of the international airport in the eastern city of Donetsk to separatists, President Petro Poroshenko said on Friday.Poroshenko issued the warning after another night of intense fighting with Russian-backed rebels...
