Section: Australia
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- SBS (Australia) (245)
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Waiting game in Ukraine as ceasefire holds (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said he’d spent more enjoyable evenings. …read more Source: The West...
Beleaguered Ukraine receives first $5bn tranche of IMF loan (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Cash-strapped Ukraine on Friday received the first $5 billion tranche of an International Monetary Fund bailout as it began talks with foreign creditors on restructuring its debt. …read more Source: The West...
EU unlikely to extend Russia sanctions next week: official (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – EU leaders are unlikely to decide at a summit next week to extend economic sanctions against Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, which expire in July, a European official said Friday. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine receives first $5 bn tranche of IMF loan (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Friday received the first $5 billion tranche of the International Monetary Fund’s bailout for its troubled economy, the finance ministry said. …read more Source: The West...
Residents return to ‘hellish’ ruins in Ukraine town (AFP)
Nikishyne (Ukraine) (AFP) – Not a single building in Nikishyne escaped undamaged after months of intense bombardment, which helped shrink the village of 700 to a handful residents as fighting raged in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Russia drops treason charges against mother of seven: lawyer (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia on Friday dropped treason charges against a mother of seven, whose arrest for allegedly informing Ukraine about Russian troop movements sparked an outcry in the country, her lawyer said. …read more Source: The West...
MH17: New evidence on downing of passenger plane over Ukraine
Villagers in eastern Ukraine have told Reuters they saw a missile flying directly overhead just before Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot out of the sky. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukraine crisis: Inside the Mariupol base of the controversial Azov battalion
The Azov battalion is a highly controversial paramilitary group that fights alongside regular Ukrainian forces, but the group itself says its soldiers have a much higher purpose than “winning the war”. …read more Source: ABC...
Cash-strapped Ukraine launches crucial debt talks (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Thursday said it would begin negotiations with creditors on restructuring the conflict-torn country’s debt, a move called for in its high-stakes multibillion-dollar bailout from the International Monetary Fund. …read more Source: The West...
OSCE doubles Ukraine observer mission to 1,000 (AFP)
Vienna (AFP) – The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is to double the potential size of its observer mission in war-torn eastern Ukraine to up to 1,000 personnel, a spokeswoman for the security body told AFP Thursday. …read more Source: The West...
