Section: Australia
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- SBS (Australia) (245)
- The West Australian (Australia) (2,557)
Russia launches major military drills set to rattle Kiev (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia on Monday launched large-scale military drills on Ukraine’s eastern border and around the Crimean peninsula, in the latest exercises set to rattle Kiev and the West. …read more Source: The West...
Beatings and a lost kidney: life in Ukraine’s ‘secret prisons’ (AFP)
Ukrainsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Secretly detained by Ukrainian authorities for almost 600 days, Mykola Vakaruk suffered repeated beatings, battled the freezing cold and lost a kidney in an ordeal he described as pure hell. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine, pro-Russia rebels say new ceasefire holding (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels on Thursday said their forces were respecting a ceasefire aimed at halting a recent spike in fighting in time for the start of the new school year. …read more Source: The West...
G20 offers Putin one more stab at Obama on Syria, Ukraine (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – The G20 summit starting in China on Sunday gives Russian President Vladimir Putin one more chance to try to strongarm US leader Barack Obama over Syria and Ukraine as their fraught relationship nears an end. …read more Source: The West...
MH17 families in desperate appeal for help (AP)
Frustrated relatives of those killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot out of the sky over eastern Ukraine are appealing to the EU’s top diplomat to put pressure on Russia, Ukraine and the United States to hand over intelligence and radar data to investigators. …read more Source: The West...
UN aid contracts ‘going to Assad-linked companies’ (AFP)
London (AFP) – United Nations aid contracts worth tens of millions of dollars have gone to people closely associated with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad despite US and EU sanctions, the Guardian reported on Tuesday. …read more Source: The West...
Calls to end Ukraine crisis from Europe (AAP)
Western officials are talking with Russia and Ukraine to encourage them to implement measures already agreed in the Minsk process. …read more Source: The West...
Russia holding Crimean Tatar activist in psychiatric ward (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – International rights groups and Ukrainian officials protested Friday against the incarceration in a psychiatric hospital of a prominent Crimean Tatar activist charged with extremism in the Russian-annexed peninsula. …read more Source: The West...
Russia launches large snap military drills (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia on Thursday launched large-scale snap military drills, putting its troops on full combat readiness in districts bordering Ukraine and the Baltic states, the defence minister said. …read more Source: The West...
Kerry to meet Russia’s Lavrov in Geneva on Friday (AFP)
Abuja (AFP) – US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Geneva on Friday for talks on Syria and Ukraine, his spokesman said Wednesday. …read more Source: The West...
