Section: The West Australian (Australia)
MH17 families in desperate appeal for help (AP)
Frustrated relatives of those killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot out of the sky over eastern Ukraine are appealing to the EU’s top diplomat to put pressure on Russia, Ukraine and the United States to hand over intelligence and radar data to investigators. …read more Source: The West...
UN aid contracts ‘going to Assad-linked companies’ (AFP)
London (AFP) – United Nations aid contracts worth tens of millions of dollars have gone to people closely associated with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad despite US and EU sanctions, the Guardian reported on Tuesday. …read more Source: The West...
Calls to end Ukraine crisis from Europe (AAP)
Western officials are talking with Russia and Ukraine to encourage them to implement measures already agreed in the Minsk process. …read more Source: The West...
Russia holding Crimean Tatar activist in psychiatric ward (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – International rights groups and Ukrainian officials protested Friday against the incarceration in a psychiatric hospital of a prominent Crimean Tatar activist charged with extremism in the Russian-annexed peninsula. …read more Source: The West...
Russia launches large snap military drills (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia on Thursday launched large-scale snap military drills, putting its troops on full combat readiness in districts bordering Ukraine and the Baltic states, the defence minister said. …read more Source: The West...
Kerry to meet Russia’s Lavrov in Geneva on Friday (AFP)
Abuja (AFP) – US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Geneva on Friday for talks on Syria and Ukraine, his spokesman said Wednesday. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine marks 25th independence day with show of force (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Tanks rumbled across Kiev on Tuesday as Ukraine marked 25 years of independence with a show of force against an increasingly assertive Russia and a war simmering in the pro-Kremlin separatist east. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine sheds Soviet past on 25th year of independence (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine marks the 25th anniversary of its freedom from Kremlin rule Wednesday with moves to sweep away its totalitarian past and embrace a European future while grappling with its tense relations with Russia. …read more Source: The West...
French president voices ‘concern’ to Putin over Ukraine tension (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – French President Francois Hollande voiced his “concern” over a spike in tensions in Ukraine, in a telephone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, his office said Tuesday. …read more Source: The West...
‘Putin-mask’ protester seeks asylum in Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – A Russian man who was repeatedly arrested for donning masks of President Vladimir Putin in anti-Kremlin pickets has crossed into Ukraine and is seeking political asylum. …read more Source: The West...
