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The United States warned Moscow it was on a “dark path” to isolation on Wednesday after Russian troops stormed Ukraine’s naval headquarters in the Crimean port of Sevastopol and raised their flag.
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Malaysian officials have confirmed they received ‘some radar data’ from other countries about the missing Flight MH370 today – but claimed they were ‘not at liberty’ to release the information.
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MOSCOW/HARARE – Russia and Crimea have signed treaty of accession of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol in the Russian Federation following President Putin’s address to the Parliament.
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MAPUTO. — Armoured vehicles bearing a UN logo have entered the Mozambican capital Maputo amid tensions between the ruling party and the opposition, according to the news bulletin released by Mozambique’s official television station yesterday. The official TVM counted six armoured
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MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of Crimea signed a treaty yesterday reunifying the Ukrainian breakaway region with Russia after 60 years as part of Ukraine. Putin signed the treaty with Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov and other Crimean leaders after
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WARSAW. — US Vice President Joe Biden yesterday warned Russia it faced the prospect of more sanctions over its move to absorb Crimea, calling it “nothing more than a land grab”. “Russia’s political and economic isolation will only increase if it continues down this path and it will in
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PRETORIA. — Oscar Pistorius’s defence team yesterday picked through the testimony of a police photographer who took images of the bloodied crime scene where the Paralympian shot dead his girlfriend. Defence lawyer Barry Roux accused police photographer Bennie van Staden of “great
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KUALA LUMPUR. — Malaysia yesterday said the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet now encompassed an area slightly larger than the entire land mass of Australia. “The entire search area is now 2,24 million square nautical miles (7,7 million square kilometres),” acting
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MOGADISHU. — Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shebaab attacked a hotel crowded with army officers in a southern town days after African Union troops celebrated its capture from the Islamists, security officials said yesterday. A suicide bomber rammed a car packed full of explosives into the
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GABORONE. — Botswana and Namibia are working to kick-start the long awaited Trans Kalahari railway project to connect the coal-rich but landlocked Botswana to a port in Namibia. A statement from the Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources said yesterday that Minister
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JERUSALEM. — Israel’s chief peace negotiator said yesterday that the last group of Palestinian prisoners will not be freed unless a peace framework agreement was found. “The prison keys are in the hands of (Palestinian President) Mahmoud Abbas and the decisions he makes over the next few
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SINGAPORE. — Cyber-criminals are exploiting the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines plane by luring users to websites purporting to offer the latest news in order to steal their personal information, an Internet security firm warned Tuesday. Trend Micro urged Internet users to exercise
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Australia’s military is remaining tight-lipped over suggestions that the last-known position of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was around 1600km west of Perth, reports The New Zealander Herald.
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Asian military officials may be staging a mass cover-up over missing flight MH370, because they do not want to expose gaping holes within their countries’ air defences, a leading aviation expert has suggested.
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President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of Crimea have signed a bill to absorb the peninsula into Russia.