Ukraine orders Crimea troop withdrawal as Russia seizes naval base

Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Interim Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov ordered the withdrawal of armed forces from Crimea Monday, citing Russian threats to the lives of military staff and their families.

Russian troops have seized most of Ukraine's bases in the peninsula, including a naval base at Feodosia on Monday. Russia annexed Crimea last week after a controversial referendum that Ukraine and the West say was illegal.

Run of bad luck for MAS continues

PETALING JAYA: Even as a multinational effort is ongoing to locate MH370 which went missing over the Gulf of Thailand on March 8 with 239 people aboard, Malaysia Airlines’ (MAS) run of bad luck continues.

While the search efforts, now concentrated south of the Indian Ocean, has turned up nothing conclusive as to what happened to the Boeing 777-200ER, another two MAS aircrafts ran into problems within the last week.

A MAS aircraft on a flight from Kuala Lumpur with 180 passengers and crew members on board had a close call while landing at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Like it or not, corruption, abuse of power, incompetency, complacency, and negligence & utter stupidity, contributed to the flight MH370 crisis. 

 

Even Mahathir’s mouthpiece Kadir Jasin agrees on this. 

It’s business as usual if you wish to enter Malaysia illegally from Indonesia using speedboats. 

Flying low? Burning object? Ground witnesses claim they saw Flight 370

By Michael Martinez, CNN

March 19, 2014 -- Updated 2314 GMT (0714 HKT)

(CNN) -- How could a commercial airliner disappear without a sign, you ask?

In fact, several people on the ground or at sea claimed they saw Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 before it went missing after its post-midnight takeoff from Kuala Lumpur on March 8.

The purported eyewitnesses include fishermen, an oil rig worker and islanders in an atoll. Some even alleged they saw it crash.

Grieving mom: Tell the truth

Krisis perkataan Allah•Hak berperlembagaan•Kebebasan beragama

Isu hangat larangan penggunaan perkataan “Allah” oleh penganut Kristian yang berlaku di negeri Sabah dan Sarawak beberapa tahun yang lalu, timbul lagi di Semenanjung Malaysia sekarang, malah kian membara ke setiap pelosok negara. Kemelut ini bermula pada November 2007 apabila akhbar mingguan Katolik, “The Herald” menerima surat arahan daripada Kementerian Dalam Negeri supaya akhbar tersebut membatalkan pengeluaran versi Bahasa Melayu sebagai syarat untuk memperbaharui lesen cetakan mereka. Alasan Kementerian Dalam Negeri adalah bahawa kandungan berita bahasa Melayu akhbar tersebut telah menggunakan perkataan “Allah”. Ketua Bishop Roman Katolik Kuala Lumpur telah membawa isu ini ke mahkamah tinggi, dan memohon kelulusan daripada pihak mahkamah untuk terus menggunakan perkataan “Allah” dalam akhbar tersebut. Ini bermakna, isu penggunaan perkataan “Allah” di Semenanjung Malaysia telah dibawa ke proses perbicaraan mahkamah.