Section: Today (Singapore)
Ukraine and separatists swap prisoners as peace talks falter
MOSCOW – The Ukrainian government and separatists from the country’s southeast yesterday (Dec 26) began swapping hundreds of prisoners of war in a rare sign of cooperation between the two sides. The prisoner exchange, which was reported by the Interfax news… …read more Source:...
Dutch to begin assembling MH17 wreckage for investigation
AMSTERDAM – Crash investigators will try to reconstruct the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July from wreckage that was brought by truck to a Dutch air force hangar on Tuesday. Members of the national Safety Board will… …read more Source:...
MH17 wreckage to be reassembled in Netherlands for investigation
AMSTERDAM – Wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 recovered from its crash site in eastern Ukraine will be reassembled for an investigation at a military base in the Netherlands, Dutch authorities said on Monday. The wreckage, collected by local emergency… …read more Source:...
Who’s behind Christmas tree at Paris’ Notre Dame?
PARIS – Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has a Christmas tree this year thanks to an unusual patron: the Russian government. Amid high tension between Russia and the West over violence in Ukraine, Russia’s ambassador to France says the “tree is a message of… …read more Source:...
Neither side abiding by peace deal in Ukraine: Putin
MOSCOW – Russia’s President has said he believes peace in Ukraine is possible but that neither side is fully holding up a truce struck in September. In an interview with German television broadcast on Sunday, Mr Vladimir Putin said he was convinced that it… …read more Source:...
Putin berated at summit, but unrepentant
BRISBANE – President Vladimir Putin weathered a barrage of criticism from world leaders at a summit in Australia, repeatedly facing them down with the same line – Russian troops are not operating in Ukraine. Leaving the Group of Twenty (G20) summit in… …read more Source:...
Fears rise as Russian military units pour into Ukraine
KIEV – Tanks and other military vehicles pouring over the border from Russia into eastern Ukraine. Nightly artillery battles in the region’s biggest city Donetsk and reports of fighting around another regional capital. And now, sightings of the “green men” -… …read more Source:...
Pro-West parties score big win in Ukraine election
KIEV – Pro-Western parties will dominate Ukraine’s Parliament after an election handed President Petro Poroshenko a mandate to end a separatist conflict and steer the country further out of Russia’s orbit into Europe’s mainstream. Mr Poroshenko planned to… …read more Source:...
At Berlin Wall, Kerry warns against Cold War redux
BERLIN – Surrounded by relics of the Cold War, United States Secretary of State John Kerry and his German counterpart yesterday warned against a return to the bitter divide between East and West over the current crisis in Ukraine. Under gloomy skies and… …read more Source:...
