Section: Australia
- ABC News (Australia) (311)
- NEWS.com.au (Australia) (203)
- SBS (Australia) (245)
- The West Australian (Australia) (2,557)
Moonshine kills at least 23 in eastern Ukraine
Three grocery store owners are detained after at least 23 people die from drinking a lethal brew of vodka in impoverished rural regions of eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: ABC...
Kiev’s last survivor of Nazi ‘path to death’ at Babi Yar (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – “We were gathered here, and sent along ‘the path to death’,” says Raisa Maistrenko, pointing to a Kiev ravine that 75 years ago witnessed one of the worst atrocities of World War II. …read more Source: The West...
Russia says Ukraine complicit in MH17 downing
Russia accuses Ukraine of complicity in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, just days before official investigators are due to release their criminal report. …read more Source: ABC...
Russia accuses Kiev over MH17 ahead of Dutch probe release (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia on Monday sought to deflect blame over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, accusing Kiev just days before the results of a Dutch criminal probe into the mass-killing are released. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine leader rails against Russia at UN (AFP)
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko railed against Russia at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, urging Moscow to give peace a chance in a more than two-year conflict in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine, rebels agree troop pullbacks in three areas: OSCE (AFP)
Minsk (AFP) – Negotiators sent by Kiev and pro-Russian rebels on Wednesday for the first time agreed to pull back troops from three areas along the battered frontline in east Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Pride and pressure as Crimea holds first Russia parliament vote (AFP)
Simferopol (AFP) – Crimea went to the polls Sunday to elect deputies to Russia’s parliament for the first time since the region was annexed by Moscow — stirring pride in some, but pushing others to protest. …read more Source: The West...
US condemns Russian elections in Crimea (AFP)
Washington (AFP) – The United States “does not recognize the legitimacy” of upcoming Russian parliamentary elections planned for Crimea, the State Department said. …read more Source: The West...
Kosovo expels Russian, Ukrainian journalists (AFP)
Pristina (AFP) – Kosovo police said Friday they had expelled two journalists, a Russian and a Ukranian, who did not have entry visas. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine hands back stolen Dutch masterpieces (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Five stolen 17th and 18th-century masterpieces were handed back to the Netherlands on Friday, foreign ministry officials said, and will soon return to a Dutch museum from where they disappeared 11 years ago. …read more Source: The West...
