Section: Australia
- ABC News (Australia) (310)
- NEWS.com.au (Australia) (203)
- SBS (Australia) (245)
- The West Australian (Australia) (2,557)
Ukraine snubs free travel to Europe over anti-gay law (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s parliament Thursday scuppered the ex-Soviet country’s chances of visa-free travel to most EU nations by blocking legislation that would have banned discrimination against gays in the workplace. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine rebels complete small arms withdrawal (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine’s pro-Russian insurgents said Thursday they had withdrawn all of their smaller weapons from a deadly buffer zone in the ex-Soviet state’s separatist east. …read more Source: The West...
Sniper tries to kill prosecutor
A sniper has tried to assassinate Ukraine’s state prosecutor, days after he ordered the arrest of an oligarch’s deputy. …read more Source: THE...
Top diplomats to meet Friday on Ukraine crisis (AFP)
Berlin (AFP) – Top diplomats from Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France will meet Friday in Berlin for fresh talks on the conflict plaguing eastern Ukraine, a German foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine probes ‘sniper attack’ on top prosecutor (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Tuesday launched a criminal probe into an alleged sniper attack on a top prosecutor who had been probing President Petro Poroshenko’s main political and business foes. …read more Source: The West...
VISION 2020: FROM IVANO-FRANKIVSK TO AUSTRALIA AND AROUND THE WORLD
Bogdan Rudnytski interviewed Mаrusia Jarocky from Тhe Pastoral Council of UGCC in Australia and New Zealand. A delegation of nine Australians attended the Sixth Patriarchal Sobor of the UGCC in Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine… (Богдан Рудницький веде розмову із п-і Марусею Яроцькою з Пасторальної Ради УГКЦ в Австралії та Новій Зеландії....
Russian police raid Crimea Tatar TV channel, journalist homes (AFP)
Simferopol (AFP) – Russian police searched the offices of a Tatar TV channel in Crimea early Monday as well as homes of its employees as part of a new probe, the latest actions against the once popular network which was forced to go off air in April. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine leader says arrest of oligarch ally just ‘the start’ (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warned Sunday that the arrest of a millionaire associate of one of the country’s most powerful oligarchs was only “the start” of a fight against the corruption plaguing the ex-Soviet country. …read more Source: The West...
‘Exchanges of fire’ at east Ukraine airport flashpoint (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Kiev and pro-Russian separatists Sunday accused each other of firing on their positions around the ruins of Donetsk airport, a flashpoint in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Russian plane crash: Islamic State claims put Vladimir Putin in a bind
Will Vladimir Putin insist the plane crash be subject to a transparent investigation – of the kind he obstructed in the case of MH17 in Ukraine? …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
