Section: New Zealand
City hall in Ukraine’s Kiev cancels school amid heat wave
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” The city hall in Ukraine’s capital Kiev has scrapped classes at schools and pre-schools for Thursday and Friday amid a record-breaking heat wave and pit-bog fires.Residents of Kiev awoke on Thursday to see the… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
2 parties stay within Ukraine’s governing coalition
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Two parties in Ukraine’s governing coalition say that they won’t abandon the grouping amid intense disputes over a proposal to give more power to Ukraine’s regions, including the rebel-held east.However, the… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
2 cases of polio found in Ukraine, caused by mutated virus
LONDON (AP) ” The World Health Organization says officials have found two children stricken by polio in Ukraine, the country’s first cases of the paralytic disease in nine years.Health officials had warned Ukraine was at high risk… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
2 police dead in Ukraine clashes
Ukraine is reeling after fierce clashes in Kiev killed 2 policemen and wounded 140 people outside parliament. …read more Source:...
Officer killed as violent clashes follow heated Ukraine separatist vote
Deadly clashes broke out between police and nationalist protesters in Kiev after Ukrainian politicians gave their support for greater autonomy in the separatist regions in the east.At least two officers were killed and more than… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
In Ukraine, 141 still hospitalized after violent protests
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukrainian police say 141 people remain hospitalized after a nationalist protest in Kiev turned violent, with 10 of the injured in serious condition.This is up from the 122, mostly police officers and National Guard… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
One dead, 90 injured in Ukraine protest
A Ukrainian national guardsman was killed and nearly 90 others wounded by grenades hurled from a crowd of nationalist protesters as they were guarding parliament where lawmakers backed giving more autonomy to rebel-held areas. read more …read more Source: Otago Daily...
Ukraine guardsman killed in protest outside parliament
A Ukrainian national guardsman was killed and nearly 90 others wounded by grenades hurled from a crowd of nationalist protesters on Monday as they were guarding parliament where lawmakers backed giving more autonomy to rebel-held areas. …read more Source:...
‘Grenades lobbed’ in clash at Ukrainian parliament
One person has been killed and more than 100 injured in violent clashes between nationalists and riot police outside Ukraine’s parliament. …read more Source: Radio New...
Petro Poroshenko warning after Kiev violence
Ukraine’s president says those behind deadly Kiev clashes that erupted after a vote on autonomy for separatist eastern regions deserved severe punishment. …read more Source:...
