AirAsia, a regional airline serving Malaysia and Southeast Asia, is pulling its inflight magazine after a column boasted that its well-trained pilots would never lose a plane — drawing controversy on social media.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Anja Niedringhaus, a courageous and immensely talented Associated Press photographer who has covered everything from sports to war, was killed while covering elections in Afghanistan on Friday.
Cuba has vented fury over the US government’s secretly-funded social media network program meant to instigate political unrest in the Caribbean country.
Russia has denied any links to snipers who killed people in Ukraine’s capital Kiev back in February, blaming pro-EU forces instead.
Senior Congress leader and Union Shipping Minister G.K. Vasan asserted that his party was the only political organisation that has been working for the welfare of the Sri Lankan Tamils. Other parties have only been talking about their suffering, but have hardly done anything for their welfare, he said here on Friday.
“India considers early progress on devolution and a political settlement as being crucial to Sri Lanka to tackle mounting international pressure,” High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Y.K. Sinha, said, a week after India abstained from voting on the U.S.-backed resolution in Geneva.
India’s decision to abstain from voting on the U.S.-sponsored resolution on alleged war crimes by Sri Lanka at the UNHRC was taken at the “political” level for the welfare of the Tamils in that country, the External Affairs Ministry said on Friday.
A U.S. grand jury this week handed down an indictment to six persons including K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao (65), MP and a close adviser to the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, in a $18.5-million titanium mining scam.
More than 100,000 of Crimean residents have requested Russian passports from the Federal Migration Service divisions, Moscow says.
Leaders of the two countries heading multinational efforts to solve the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 pledged Thursday that no effort would be spared to give the families of those on board the answers they need.
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