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Thai radar might have tracked missing plane

Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 07:39 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

New radar data from Thailand gave Malaysian investigators more potential clues Wednesday for how to retrace the course of the missing Malaysian airliner, while a massive multinational search unfolded...

Plane search spreads through Australia-sized zone

Tuesday, 18 March 2014, 18:12 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Investigators trying to solve the mystery of a missing Malaysian jetliner received some belated help Tuesday from Thailand, whose military said it took 10 days to report radar blips that might have...

Retired Pope Benedict critiqued Francis' interview

Tuesday, 18 March 2014, 14:11 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The man who serves two popes has revealed that retired Pope Benedict XVI wrote four pages of critique and commentary on Pope Francis's landmark interview in which he blasted the church's...

Putin approves draft bill for annexation of Crimea

Tuesday, 18 March 2014, 09:36 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday approved a draft bill for the annexation of Crimea, one of a flurry of steps to formally take over the Black Sea peninsula.   Crimea on...

Putin recognizes Crimean independence

Tuesday, 18 March 2014, 06:12 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Ignoring the toughest sanctions against Moscow since the end of the Cold War, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula as an "independent and sovereign...

Crimea declares independence; West hits back

Monday, 17 March 2014, 18:19 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Crimea's declaration of independence Monday from Ukraine triggered the toughest Western sanctions against Russia since the Cold War — with Washington and the European Union retaliating with...

EU, US sanctions people linked to Ukraine unrest

Monday, 17 March 2014, 13:59 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

European Union foreign ministers slapped travel bans and asset freezes Monday on 21 people from Russia and Crimea who they linked to the push for the secession of Ukraine's strategic...

Putin’s Kampf

Monday, 17 March 2014, 07:56 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Russia’s seizure of Crimea is the most naked example of peacetime aggression that Europe has witnessed since Nazi Germany invaded the Sudetenland in 1938. It may be fashionable to belittle the...

US rejects Crimea vote, cites Russian intimidation

Monday, 17 March 2014, 06:29 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

President Barack Obama told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday that Crimea's vote to secede from Ukraine and join Russia "would never be recognized" by the United States, as he...

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