Section: Australia
- ABC News (Australia) (310)
- NEWS.com.au (Australia) (203)
- SBS (Australia) (245)
- The West Australian (Australia) (2,557)
BBC reporters ‘badly beaten’ in southern Russia (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – A team of BBC journalists was assaulted in southern Russia while researching a story about soldiers “being killed at the Ukraine border,” the company said Thursday after lodging a protest with Russian authorities. …read more Source: The West...
Moscow hails Ukraine self-rule olive branch for east (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia hailed Wednesday Ukraine’s offer of self-rule for separatist rebels in the east under a peace plan seen as the best chance yet of halting five months of bloody warfare. …read more Source: The West...
Russia praises Ukraine law on self-rule for Donbass region (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Moscow on Wednesday praised Kiev’s law on self-rule for the war-torn eastern Ukraine as a “step in the right direction” and expressed the hope the rebel-held regions would develop cross-border cooperation with Russia. …read more Source: The West...
Deadly gunbattles in east Ukraine despite autonomy offer (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Fierce gunbattles erupted around the Ukrainian rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Wednesday, with two civilians killed just a day after lawmakers in Kiev held out an offer of self-rule to the pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: The West...
Rouble plunges to new lows, authorities tell Russians not to panic
Russian authorities told people not to panic as the battered rouble plunged to record lows, floored by tensions with the West over Ukraine, new sanctions and falling oil prices. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Politician thrown in rubbish bin
TRASHING politicians has taken on a literal meaning in Ukraine, where angry protesters threw an MP into a skip and pelted him with rubbish. …read more Source:...
How far is Putin prepared to go in Ukraine? (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – Russia could go even further in Ukraine with the “frozen conflict” strategy it has tried and tested in other countries, and may even end up annexing around half of Ukrainian territory, analysts say. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine and EU ratify landmark pact
THE Ukrainian and European parliaments last night simultaneously ratified a landmark pact. …read more Source: THE...
Russia threatens to send more troops to Crimea over NATO military exercise near its border
Russia has threatened to send more troops to its newly-annexed territory of Crimea after NATO began exercises in western Ukraine. …read more Source: ABC...
Ukraine’s self-rule offer slows rebel independence drive (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s push for peace with pro-Russian insurgents appeared to pass its first test Tuesday when most agreed to study his limited self-rule offer while defending their demands for full independence. …read more Source: The West...
