Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Ukraine, Russia leaders to meet in a bid to rescue truce (AFP)
Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on Saturday said he will meet with Russia’s Vladimir Putin next week as Kiev reported rebel attacks have subsided, signalling the possibility of rescuing a truce in the six-month conflict. …read more Source: The West...
Five killed in eastern Ukraine clashes: authorities (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Shelling in eastern Ukraine’s rebel-held eastern regions killed five people over the past 24 hours, local authorities said Saturday, in the latest deadly violations of a ceasefire. …read more Source: The West...
Australia’s Stosur into Osaka final (AFP)
Osaka (Japan) (AFP) – Former US Open winner Samantha Stosur beat Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina on Saturday to reach the Japan Women’s Open final as she seeks the first successful title defence of her career. …read more Source: The West...
Three civilians killed in Ukraine’s Donetsk: city hall (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Shelling in eastern Ukraine’s rebel-held city of Donetsk killed three people over the past 24 hours, local authorities said Saturday, in the latest deadly violations of a ceasefire. …read more Source: The West...
Netherlands says 10 more MH17 passengers identified (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Medical experts have now identified 272 of the 298 people aboard the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 shot down in Ukraine in July, the Dutch justice ministry said Friday. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine could sack up to million officials with ties to Russian past (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s president approved a disputed anti-graft measure on Thursday that could see up to a million civil servants with alleged links to past Soviet or pro-Russian governments immediately sacked. …read more Source: The West...
Red Cross mulls Ukraine operations after worker killed (AFP)
Geneva (AFP) – The Red Cross said Thursday it was analysing how to resume its Ukraine operations a week after halting work in the conflict-torn country following the death of a Swiss staffer. …read more Source: The West...
Staff numb the horror as bodies pile up in Ukraine morgue (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Like most staff at this east Ukrainian morgue, Olga Georgiyevna takes sedatives to numb the horror of seeing the bodies pile up. The ceasefire deal has done nothing to make her job easier. …read more Source: The West...
MH17 victim found with oxygen mask: Dutch FM (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – One of the people on the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 shot down in Ukraine in July was found wearing an oxygen mask, the Dutch foreign minister and prosecutors said, raising the possibility that some passengers might have known their plane was doomed. …read more Source: The West...
UK student confirmed as MH17 victim (AAP)
A British student flying to Perth to study has been identified as one of those killed when a Malaysia Airlines plane was shot down over Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
