North Korea fires ballistic missile as South hosts democracy conference
Seoul, South Korea Reuters North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea on Monday for the first time in two months, at a time when US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was visiting Seoul to attend a conference hosted by President Yoon Suk Yeol on advancing democracy. South Korea’s military said the missile was […]
Dutch court hands life sentences to three men convicted of MH17 downing; Russia rejects verdict
Updated: 3:30pm (AEST)Amsterdam, The NetherlandsReuters Dutch judges convicted two Russian men and a Ukrainian man in absentia of murder for their role in the shooting down of Flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014 with the loss of 298 passengers and crew, and handed them life sentences. Ukraine welcomed the ruling, which will have implications for other court […]
Fears of war spillover ease after NATO says missile on Poland was Ukrainian stray
Warsaw/Przewodow, Poland/Brussels, BelgiumReuters A missile that crashed inside Poland was probably a stray fired by Ukraine’s air defences and not a Russian strike, Poland and military alliance NATO said on Wednesday, easing international fears that the war could spill across the border. Nevertheless, NATO’s chief said that Moscow, not Kyiv, was still to blame for […]
Names of victims read aloud at murder trial over doomed flight MH17
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsReuters Relatives sat listening with bowed heads and eyes closed as the names of all 298 victims of a missile strike on a Malaysian airliner were read out in a Dutch court on Monday as the murder trial of four fugitive defendants began. Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was hit by a surface-to-air missile […]