Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Putin to leave G20 summit early: Russian delegate (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Vladimir Putin intends to cut short his attendance at the Group of 20 summit in Brisbane on Sunday, a Russian source said as the strongman faces intense pressure from the West over Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Putin to quit G20 summit after rebukes over Ukraine (AFP)
Brisbane (Australia) (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin is to walk out of a G20 summit in Australia, an aide said Saturday, after he faced scorn and scepticism from Western leaders over Ukraine despite venturing to paper over Europe’s deepest chill in relations since the Cold War. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine orders closure of state services in rebel-held east (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on Saturday issued a decree ordering the withdrawal of all state services from the rebel-held east of the country. …read more Source: The West...
Tense G20 vows action on Ebola as climate returns to fore (AFP)
Brisbane (Australia) (AFP) – Feuding G20 leaders found common ground on Saturday in vowing to “extinguish” the Ebola outbreak as they worked to revamp the global economy at a summit marked by discord over Ukraine and climate change. …read more Source: The West...
Five civilians including two children die in east Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Five civilians, including two children, and three government soldiers have been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine, officials said Saturday. …read more Source: The West...
Russian TV says fighter jet shot down MH17 (AAP)
Russia’s state-owned television has broadcast satellite images it says show a fighter jet shooting down MH17 over eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Deal for more access to MH17: Dutch govt (AAP)
Dutch experts will be able to search for more pieces of MH17 under a reported deal between separatists in eastern Ukraine and Dutch representatives. …read more Source: The West...
Young girl among six killed in east Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – A five-year-old girl, a mine company worker and four government soldiers were killed Friday during fighting in war-torn east Ukraine, officials said. …read more Source: The West...
Georgia’s flamboyant reformer Kakha Bendukidze dies (AFP)
Tbilisi (AFP) – Georgian statesman Kakha Bendukidze — a top aide to Ukraine’s president and a respected champion of economic reforms in his own ex-Soviet republic — has died in London aged 58, supporters said on Friday. …read more Source: The West...
Georgia’s key reformer Kakha Bendukidze dies (AFP)
Tbilisi (AFP) – Georgian statesman Kakha Bendukidze, the architect of the ex-Soviet republic’s liberal economic reforms who was advising Ukraine’s new president, has died aged 58, officials said Friday. …read more Source: The West...
