Section: New Zealand
Dutch to remember MH17 victims a year on
Dutch flags will fly at half-mast as families remember those killed when flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine a year ago, with all efforts now focused on catching those responsible. …read more Source:...
Canada and Ukraine sign free trade agreement
CHELSEA, Quebec (AP) ” Canada has reached a trade agreement with Ukraine that will see a near-elimination of duties on goods coming into Canada from Ukraine.Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the free trade agreement… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Barack Obama prods Ukraine on economic reforms
Barack Obama has urged Ukraine to follow through with tough economic reforms in order to meet its commitments to the International Monetary Fund. …read more Source:...
Barack Obama prods Ukraine on economic reforms
Barack Obama has urged Ukraine to follow through with tough economic reforms in order to meet its commitments to the International Monetary Fund. …read more Source:...
Ukraine PM says reforms continue despite ‘lunatic’ lawmakers
WASHINGTON (AP) ” Ukraine’s prime minister is pushing back against a pair of forces threatening to undermine his fragile government.Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is likening members of parliament who want to roll back economic… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
General: US considering training for Ukrainian army
WASHINGTON (AP) ” The commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe says the United States is considering a plan to train Ukrainian army soldiers beginning in late November.In remarks to reporters at the Pentagon, Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Lithuania to remove remaining Soviet-era statues in capital
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) ” Lithuania is removing all the Soviet statues remaining in its capital, prompted by renewed calls to take down the symbols of an oppressive Soviet occupation amid the Ukraine crisis.The spokesman of the… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Right Sector gunmen take boy hostage in western Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Two gunmen from Ukraine’s notorious nationalist militia Right Sector have briefly taken a six-year-old boy hostage in western Ukraine as a standoff between the gunmen and police entered its third day.Two people… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Dozens of Russian soldiers ‘flee unit’
Dozens of Russian soldiers are facing trial for fleeing their unit, fearing deployment to Ukraine, a news site and a lawyer for five of the men say. …read more Source:...
Ukraine says 7 wounded in armed gang attack in western city
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukraine’s Interior Minister says four civilians and three police officers have been wounded in an attack by armed men whose weapons include grenades in a western city.Arsen Avakov says that the armed group has been… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
