Section: The Straits Times (Singapore)
Facebook removes ‘inauthentic’ networks spanning 8 nations
November 06, 2020 5:02 PMSINGAPORE (REUTERS) – Facebook on Friday (Nov 6) said it has dismantled seven separate networks of fake accounts and pages on its platform that were active in Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, Myanmar, Georgia, and Ukraine due to “coordinated inauthentic behaviour”. …read more Source:: The...
US charges Russian intelligence officers in major cyber attacks
October 20, 2020 11:30 AMThe hacking campaign targeted a French presidential election, the electricity grid in Ukraine and the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics. …read more Source:: The Straits...
Four killed, 10 hospitalised in forest fires in eastern Ukraine
October 01, 2020 2:41 PMKYIV (REUTERS) – Four people died and ten were hospitalised as a series of forest fires swept a large area in the eastern Ukrainian Luhansk region, Ukraine’s emergency service said on Thursday (Oct 1). …read more Source:: The Straits...
US embassy employee in Ukraine found dead by railway tracks
October 01, 2020 12:53 AMKYIV (REUTERS) – Ukrainian authorities are investigating the death of an employee of the US embassy in Kyiv who was found by railway tracks in a park on Wednesday (Sept 30), and are searching for a man suspected of assaulting her. …read more Source:: The Straits...
Suspect in downing of flight Malaysia Airlines’ MH17 in Ukraine denies any involvement at trial
September 28, 2020 5:16 PMTHE HAGUE (REUTERS) – One of four suspects being tried in absentia for the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 has denied any involvement with firing or supplying the missile used in its destruction, a lawyer said in court on Monday (Sept 28). …read more Source:: The Straits...
26 killed in Ukraine military plane crash
September 27, 2020 5:00 AMKIEV • A military plane crash in Ukraine killed 26 people, a tragedy which President Volodymyr Zelensky said would be investigated promptly and impartially. …read more Source:: The Straits...
20 dead in Ukraine military plane crash
September 26, 2020 3:38 AMKIEV (AFP) – Ukraine’s interior ministry on Friday (Sept 25) said at least 20 people were killed when a military plane crash landed in the Kharkiv region in the east of the country. …read more Source:: The Straits...
Ukraine-US military exercises begin as Russia holds drills in Belarus
September 17, 2020 10:45 PMKYIV (REUTERS) – Ukraine and the United States launched joint military exercises on Thursday (Sept 17), two days after Russia began joint military drills with forces in neighbouring Belarus. …read more Source:: The Straits...
American diplomat demands release of husband held in Belarus
September 16, 2020 9:16 AMKYIV (BLOOMBERG) – An American diplomat in Ukraine is demanding that Belarus release her husband, a dual US-Belarusian citizen whom she argues was detained for writing articles critical of President Alexander Lukashenko. …read more Source:: The Straits...
Ukraine airline bans woman who used plane’s emergency exit to get on wing because it was ‘too hot’ inside
September 05, 2020 4:02 PMKIEV (PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – An airline banned a woman from future flights after she opened a plane’s emergency exit and climbed onto its wing on Aug 31. …read more Source:: The Straits...
