Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Bishop may return to Kiev to finalise deal (AAP)
Dutch and Australian military planes are transporting the final 38 coffins containing MH17 remains from eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Dutch, Australians ready MH17 forces amid Ukraine fighting (AFP)
Grabove (Ukraine) (AFP) – Dutch and Australian forces were being readied on Saturday for deployment to secure the rebel-held crash site of Malaysian flight MH17 in east Ukraine where remains of victims still lie more than a week after the disaster. …read more Source: The West...
Human remains still at MH17 crash site: Australia PM (AFP)
Sydney (AFP) – More than a week after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 came down in rebel-held eastern Ukraine human remains are still at the crash site, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Saturday. …read more Source: The West...
EU hits Russian intelligence chiefs with sanctions (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – The European Union announced Saturday it had widened its sanctions against Russia over its role in conflict-torn Ukraine to include the heads of intelligence services. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine could ratify AFP deal next week (AAP)
A deal authorising Australian police and soldiers to help secure the MH17 crash site could be ratified next week when the Ukrainian parliament is recalled. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine rebels go to the museum — for WWII tanks and cannons (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Visiting a museum may be the last thing on the minds of hardened insurgents in east Ukraine, but a group of them turned up at one in Donetsk — only to make off with a World War II tank and two howitzers. …read more Source: The West...
Securing MH17 site a ‘dangerous tightrope act’: experts (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Sending Western forces to secure the MH17 crash site in rebel-held Ukraine and protect investigators will be a perilous balancing act involving unpredictable separatists and Russian pride, experts said Friday. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine could ratify Aust deal next week (AAP)
A deal authorising Australian police and soldiers to help secure the MH17 crash site could be ratified next week if the Ukrainian parliament is recalled. …read more Source: The West...
Confusion after Ukraine’s PM quits (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s political circus made an unwelcome return to centre stage as bickering lawmakers struggled Friday to avert a crisis of their own making after Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk resigned in a huff. …read more Source: The West...
Russia accuses US of ‘smear campaign’ over Ukraine (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia on Friday called the latest US accusations of Moscow’s involvement in the Ukrainian conflict a baseless “smear campaign” and said Washington bears responsibility for the bloodshed. …read more Source: The West...
