Section: New Zealand
Barack Obama agrees to meeting with Vladimir Putin over Syria
President Barack Obama has not met one-on-one with President Vladimir Putin for more than 15 months but agreed Thursday to sit down with the Russian leader in New York on Monday as part of a broader effort to resolve the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. …read more Source:...
UN: Agencies, major NGOs ordered out of Ukraine’s Luhansk
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ” The United Nations humanitarian chief says he is “alarmed” that U.N. agencies have been ordered out of the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine by the “de facto authorities” there.Stephen O’Brien’s statement Thursday… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
EU: Russia-Ukraine talks on gas supplies to resume
BRUSSELS (AP) ” Russia and Ukraine will resume talks aimed at trying to clinch a deal guaranteeing that Ukraine will receive shipments of Russian natural gas this winter.The European Union, which is hosting the negotiations, announced… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
OSCE envoy regrets lack of progress in Ukraine talks
MINSK, Belarus (AP) ” An envoy from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has voiced regret over the intransigence of Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine, who have insisted on holding local elections in defiance… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
High-profile trial of Ukrainian officer begins in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) ” A Russian court has begun hearing the high-profile case against Ukrainian officer Nadezhda Savchenko, who is charged in the deaths of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine.Russian investigators allege that Savchenko,… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine leader expresses wish to join NATO
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told the country’s security council that staying out of the NATO alliance was a “criminal” policy that his government is ready to reverse.Ukraine has been fighting with… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine’s richest man plays both sides of war’s frontline
KRASNODON, Ukraine (AP) ” In this town deep in eastern Ukraine’s rebel heartland, about a quarter of the population works in the coal mines owned by billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man. Here and elsewhere in territory… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
NATO’s Stoltenberg begins first visit to Ukraine
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) ” NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg began his first visit to Ukraine Monday, meeting with President Petro Poroshenko and helping inaugurate a joint disaster response drill that Poroshenko hailed as more evidence… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Putin and Berlusconi caught up in wine scandal
Ukraine has launched a criminal probe into wine-tasting by Russian President Vladimir Putin and ex-Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi. …read more Source:...
OSCE warns of breakdown of central heating in east Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) ” The Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe is raising the alarm about a potential breakdown of central heating systems across war-torn eastern Ukraine.A military conflict there has killed over 8,000 people… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
