Section: Sunday Times (South Africa)
Ukraine’s crucial debt talks hit new hurdle
Ukraine and its creditors hit a new stumbling block after a new debt restructuring offer from Kiev and call for a “decisive” final meeting drew only a lukewarm response. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Australia says will continue push for MH17 prosecution
Australia vowed Saturday no let up in its quest to prosecute those who shot down flight MH17 over Ukraine, saying Russia’s veto of a UN resolution raised further questions about its involvement. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Ukraine faces ‘hidden crisis’ as displacement soars
Ukraine is facing a “hidden emergency” because of the government’s failure to plan for nearly 1.4 million people uprooted by the war in the east, which has left many struggling to find shelter, charities say. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Australia ‘sickened’ at MH17 footage of rebels rummaging through luggage of dead passengers
Australia said Friday it was “sickened” after new footage emerged purportedly of Russian-backed rebels rummaging through the luggage of passengers killed after Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, as a ceremony marked the disaster’s one-year anniversary. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Malaysia asks UN to set up MH17 tribunal
Malaysia on Wednesday circulated a draft UN resolution on establishing an international tribunal that it said would guarantee an independent trial for those behind the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Russia cuts off power supplies to Ukraine rebels: Kiev
Kiev said Tuesday that Russia had cut off electricity to Ukraine’s rebel-run regions in what appears to be another sign that Moscow is losing interest in plans to splinter its neighbour. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Life in the bomb shelter: Ukrainian coking plant trapped between the fronts
Every working day, Dmitry passes out through the massive iron doors of a Soviet-built nuclear bomb shelter, mounts three flights of stairs and strides across the compound to put in an eight-hour shift keeping one of Europe’s biggest coking plants on line. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Russia says sanctions unfounded, sticks to policy of reciprocity
Russia believes that Western sanctions are unfounded, the Kremlin spokesman said after the European Union decided to extend sanctions to January 31, 2016, over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: The Sunday...
East Ukrainians in rare protest against Russian-backed rebels
Several hundred Ukrainians in the country’s war-torn east demanded Monday that pro-Russian insurgents remove scores of rocket launchers from crowded city neighbourhoods and stop provoking government fire on their homes. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Firemen missing after explosion at fuel depot fire in Ukraine
Two Ukrainian firemen were missing after a fire they had been battling through the night at a fuel depot outside Kiev triggered a powerful explosion, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said. …read more Source: The Sunday...
