Section: Australia
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Ukraine’s Parliament approves Poroshenko ally Volodymyr Groysman as new prime minister
In Ukraine’s most sweeping political reshuffle since its revolution two years ago, Parliament has voted to seat a close ally of the president as prime minister and handed critical ministerial posts to presidential staff members. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukraine parliament appoints pro-EU Groysman as PM (AFP)
Kiev (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine’s parliament on Thursday appointed pro-Western speaker Volodymyr Groysman as prime minister in a bid to end months of political gridlock and unlock vital aid to the war torn-state. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine parliament approves pro-EU PM
Ukraine’s parliament approves presidential ally Volodymyr Groysman for the post of Prime Minister, in the country’s biggest political shakeup since a 2014 uprising brought in a pro-Western leadership. …read more Source: ABC...
Groysman: Poroshenko protege and Ukraine’s crisis PM (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Volodymr Groysman has catapulted from being a small city mayor to Ukraine’s premier over a remarkable two-year span during which he stuck close by President Petro Poroshenko’s side. …read more Source: The West...
UN employee ‘captured’ by Ukraine rebels (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – The United Nations said Wednesday that one of its staff members had been captured by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine’s separatist east. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine eyes Thursday vote on new pro-EU government (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Strife-torn Ukraine appeared to move a step closer Wednesday to agreeing a new pro-EU government headed by parliament speaker Volodymyr Groysman that could be voted on the following day. …read more Source: The West...
Dutch vote against EU-Ukraine treaty – final result (Reuters)
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch voters rejected the Ukraine-EU treaty by a large margin in a nonbinding referendum held last week, according to the final results published by the country’s Election Commis… …read more Source: The West...
NATO says will hold Russia council meeting on April 20 (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – NATO will hold its first formal talks in nearly two years with Russia on April 20 to discuss the Ukraine crisis and other security issues, the US-led miltary alliance said Tuesday. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine parliament weighs PM resignation, government overhaul (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s parliament was weighing Tuesday whether to approve the resignation of embattled Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk as backroom talks raged about the make-up of a new pro-EU government. …read more Source: The West...
France seeks G20 tax haven blacklist, EU sanctions on evaders (Reuters)
PARIS (Reuters) – France will seek tougher EU sanctions on people who help to facilitate tax evasion and a G20 blacklist of uncooperative tax havens, the Finance Ministry said on Monday following the … …read more Source: The West...
