Section: The West Australian (Australia)
More airline deaths in 2014, fewer crashes (AP)
The International Air Transport Association says 641 people died in airline crashes in 2014, not including 298 killed when MH17 was downed over Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Putin describes secret operation to seize Crimea (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – President Vladimir Putin has revealed the moment he says he gave the secret order for Russia’s annexation of Crimea and described how Russian troops were ready to fight to rescue Ukraine’s deposed, pro-Moscow president. …read more Source: The West...
Swiss firm sells camouflage nets to sanctions-hit Russia (AFP)
Geneva (AFP) – Russia has acquired high-tech camouflage netting from Switzerland for a record 85 million euros, having placed the order before Bern imposed sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine conflict, reports said Sunday. …read more Source: The West...
Boom in journalist drone use flies into legal obstacles (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – Flying over the flaming barricades of the Maidan protests in Kiev, the camps of Auschwitz or hurtling down a ski slope — drones have become a vital tool for cameramen, but they are increasingly running into legal and practical obstacles. …read more Source: The West...
East Ukraine rebels say heavy weapons pullback complete (AFP)
Snizhne (Ukraine) (AFP) – Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine claimed Saturday to have completed their withdrawal of heavy weapons, in line with a February ceasefire deal. …read more Source: The West...
Tears and accusations as Ukraine buries mine blast victims (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Emotions ran high as mourners in east Ukraine on Friday laid to rest some of the 33 miners killed in an apparent gas blast at a notoriously dangerous coal mine in rebel-led Donetsk. …read more Source: The West...
‘On the brink’: Ukrainian pilot ends hunger strike in Russia jail (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko has ended a more than 80 days hunger strike in protest at her detention in Russia after her health came near to collapse, her lawyer said on Friday. …read more Source: The West...
Russia, Germany urge OSCE to boost Ukraine observers to 1,000 (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia and Germany on Friday urged the OSCE to more than double the number of its observers in Ukraine to 1,000, to monitor a sputtering ceasefire as the EU downplayed the threat of new sanctions against Moscow. …read more Source: The West...
Russia, Germany urge OSCE to double Ukraine observers to 1,000 (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia and Germany on Friday urged the OSCE, which is charged with monitoring a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, to double the number of observers in the country to 1,000, Moscow said. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian pilot ends hunger strike in Russian jail: lawyer (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko has decided to end a hunger strike after going more than 80 days without food to protest her detention in a Russian jail, one of her lawyers said on Friday. …read more Source: The West...
