Section: AsiaOne (Singapore)
Ukraine rebel city residents live underground for months
DONETSK, Ukraine – Ever since fierce shelling in east Ukraine’s rebel stronghold Donetsk forced her to flee her home four months ago, Svetlana, a grandmother, has been living underground.”I’ve spent four months in this bomb shelter,” she said, cradling her 19-month-old grandson.”Whenever I go out, I risk being...
Houston makes it his mission to help find MH370
KUALA LUMPUR – For Air Chief Marshal (Rtd) Angus Houston, the most recognised Australian involved in the search for missing aircraft MH370, helping Malaysia means a lot to him.The former Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) head said he was shocked and very sad when he heard about MH370.RELATED STORIESMalaysia ‘99.9 per cent...
Ukraine voters embrace West and peace with rebels
KIEV – Ukraine’s pro-Western and moderately nationalist parties were on course Monday to score a crushing election win that boosted President Petro Poroshenko’s bid to merge his ex-Soviet country with Europe and end a pro-Russian revolt.A partial vote count and exit polls showed overwhelming support for Poroshenko’s drive...
Divided Ukraine votes for pro-Western future
KIEV – Ukrainians voted Sunday for a new parliament in elections meant to complete a historic shift from Russia’s sphere of influence, but which will sharpen the war-torn country’s internal divisions.The snap election, eight months after a street revolt overthrew Moscow-backed president Viktor Yanukovych, is expected to result...
Malaysia to push for better flight tracking
PETALING JAYA, Malaysia – Malaysia will push for an improvement on real-time tracking of airline flights and a better sharing of aviation risks at an International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) meeting next week, said Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.Liow said the international community needed to collaborate more closely...
Swedish military calls off hunt for suspected submarine
STOCKHOLM – The Swedish military said on Friday that it had called of its search for a suspected foreign submarine in waters off Stockholm after a week-long hunt, ending the country’s biggest military mobilisation since the Cold War.More than 200 troops, stealth ships and helicopters have scoured waters off Stockholm since last Friday...
EU leaders seek climate deal, but are divided over costs
BRUSSELS – European leaders aim to agree a new decade of energy policy to cut climate-warming gas emissions out to 2030 at an EU summit on Thursday, though sharp differences over sharing the cost means a deal could elude them.The 28 member states want to set the pace for a global pact to be hammered out in Paris next year with industrial...
Ukraine vote candidate survives gun and grenade attack: Party
KIEV – A Ukrainian election candidate allied to the prime minister was shot at and came under a grenade attack as he left his home late on Monday, and only survived because he was wearing body armour, his party said.Volodymyr Borysenko, from Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk’s People’s Front party, was being treated in hospital...
Polish ex-minister quoted saying Putin offered to divide Ukraine with Poland
Poland’s parliamentary speaker, Radoslaw Sikorski, has been quoted as saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to Poland’s then leader in 2008 that they divide Ukraine between themselves.Sikorski, who until September served as Poland’s foreign minister, was quoted telling US website Politico that Putin made the...
Total CEO de Margerie killed in Moscow business jet accident
RUSSIA – The chief executive of French oil major Total, Christophe de Margerie, was killed when a business jet collided with a snow plough during takeoff at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport, the company and airport officials said.The collision occurred late on Monday, just minutes before midnight Moscow time, the airport said in...
