Section: Australia
- ABC News (Australia) (310)
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- SBS (Australia) (245)
- The West Australian (Australia) (2,557)
Kremlin says too early to speak of Ukraine peacekeeping mission (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia said on Friday that it was premature to discuss the deployment of a peacekeeping mission in war-torn eastern Ukraine before a peace deal agreed in February is implemented in full. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian tycoon Firtash escapes extradition to US
An Austrian court has refused to extradite Ukrainian industrialist Dmytro Firtash to the US, accepting his argument that US efforts to try him on corruption charges were politically motivated. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukraine rebels expel Western NGO members for ‘spying’ (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Pro-Russian rebels said Thursday they had expelled seven US and European members of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) NGO for “spying” in the eastern Ukrainian territory under their control. …read more Source: The West...
Austria rejects US extradition of Ukrainian oligarch (AFP)
Vienna (AFP) – An Austrian court on Thursday rejected a request to extradite to the United States Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash on bribery charges. …read more Source: The West...
Kiev says Putin open to peacekeeping mission in east Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – The Ukrainian presidency on Thursday said Russian President Vladimir Putin was open to the deployment of a peacekeeping mission in war-torn eastern Ukraine, after the leaders of both countries spoke by phone with their French and German counterparts. …read more Source: The West...
Search of Ukraine MH17 crash site over: Dutch team (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Dutch and international investigators have finished recovering human remains and wreckage from the MH17 plane crash site in eastern Ukraine, the mission’s head said on Thursday. …read more Source: The West...
Search of MH17 crash site over: investigators
Dutch investigators announce that they have finished recovering human remains and wreckage from the MH17 plane crash site in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: ABC...
Chernobyl wildfire controlled: Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Firefighters have brought under control a forest fire near Ukraine’s Chernobyl plant, scene of the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986, the emergency services said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The West...
‘Fascists’ or heroes? How WWII history divides Ukraine (AFP)
Lviv (Ukraine) (AFP) – He fought alongside the Nazis, then against them. …read more Source: The West...
Fire breaks out near Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, poses no danger: officials
A forest fire breaks out near the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, the scene of the world’s worst civil nuclear disaster in 1986, but poses no danger to the site, officials say. …read more Source: ABC...
