Section: Channel NewsAsia (Singapore)
Interpol seeks arrest of ousted Ukraine president
Interpol on Monday (Jan 12) put Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovych on its global wanted list for alleged embezzlement that drained the ex-Soviet republic’s budget in his four years of pro-Russian rule. …read more Source: Channel...
Interpol issues global wanted notice for ex-Ukraine leader Yanukovych
Yanukovych, 64, is wanted for misappropriation of funds and embezzlement in Ukraine, which he fled in February after a pro-Western revolution toppled his government. …read more Source: Channel...
Intense Ukraine shelling traps hundreds of miners
Intense fighting erupted around east Ukraine’s main rebel-held city on Sunday (Jan 11) that wrecked a power station and briefly trapped more than 300 coal miners in one of Europe’s largest pits. …read more Source: Channel...
Eight killed in Ukraine as peace talk prospects dim
Four Ukrainian soldiers and at least as many civilians died in an upsurge of rocket attacks that came just as prospects for international peace talks on the nine-month crisis dimmed. …read more Source: Channel...
Pro-Russian hackers claim attack on Merkel’s website
Hackers blocked the website of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday (Jan 7) in an online attack claimed by a pro-Russian group opposed to the Ukrainian government. …read more Source: Channel...
Thousands of Ukraine nationalists march in Kiev
Thousands of Ukrainian nationalists held a torchlight procession across Kiev on Thursday (Jan 1) in honour of a 1940s anti-Soviet insurgent branded by Moscow as a Nazi collaborator whom Europe must reject. …read more Source: Channel...
Poroshenko tells Ukrainians ‘we will win this war’
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, in a traditional New Year’s message on Wednesday (Dec 31), promised to defeat the “cruel-hearted foe” trying to break his former Soviet republic apart. …read more Source: Channel...
Canadian frigate to join NATO forces off Ukraine
A Canadian frigate with 250 marines on board set off from Halifax on the Atlantic coast to join NATO forces in the Mediterranean Sea monitoring the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: Channel...
2014: The year of loggerheads for United Nations
Violence in Syria, Ukraine and Gaza and the Ebola virus were some of the of the problems a squabbling United Nations had to deal with in 2014. …read more Source: Channel...
Poroshenko announces Putin meeting in new peace push
Ukraine’s leader Petro Poroshenko promised to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin and involve US President Barack Obama in his stalled push for peace. …read more Source: Channel...
