EU expands Russia sanctions over Crimea bridge
AFP, Brussels
The EU on Tuesday expanded its sanctions against Moscow to include companies that helped build a bridge from mainland Russia to Kremlin-annexed Crimea, which it says violates Ukraine’s sovereignty.
The European Union said the six firms and organisations will have their assets in the EU frozen for their role in building the Kerch Bridge, which Russian President Vladimir Putin inaugurated in May.
4 killed in New York apartment
Reuters, New York:
Two females, one male and a boy, about five years old, were found dead from gunshot wounds inside the apartment in the borough of Queens, after police and emergency crews were called to the scene a little before 9 p.m., New York City Police Department Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea told a news conference. Police are investigating if the shooting was a murder-suicide, Shea said.
“We will take the evidence where ever it leads us,” he said. “We don’t want to leave any stone unturned.”
Malaysia aviation chief quits
AFP, Kuala Lumpur
The head of Malaysia’s civil aviation regulator resigned Tuesday after an official report found failings in air traffic control when Flight MH370 disappeared. In a long-awaited report released on Monday, the official investigation team pointed to numerous lapses by air traffic controllers in both Malaysia and Vietnam.
These included failing to initiate “emergency phases” as required after the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board vanished from radar displays.
Car crash kills 6 in central Uganda
Xinhua, Kampala
At least six people were killed and six others critically injured in a road accident on Monday in central Uganda, a police spokesperson said Tuesday.
The fatal accident occurred when a taxi and a saloon car collided head-on in Mpigi district along a highway that connects the capital city of Kampala to the southwestern town of Masaka, Joseph Musana, the Katonga regional police spokesperson, told Xinhua.
