Section: New Zealand
Ukraine president urges Russia to withdraw troops
SYDNEY (AP) ” Australia has pledged its support for Ukraine during a visit by the nation’s president and urged Russia to honor a little-respected cease-fire agreement signed in September.Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott met… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Gorbachev calls for US-Russia summit to defrost ties
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called on Wednesday for a US-Russia summit to be convened to prevent a deep freeze in Moscow’s relations with the West over the Ukraine crisis. read more …read more Source: Otago Daily...
Ukraine to extend truce with separatists
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukraine says it will continue upholding a truce with Russian-backed separatists following a day largely free of exchanges of fire between the warring sides.Military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said Wednesday there… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Crimea annexation upends lives of Tatar minority
SARY-SU, Crimea (AP) ” Since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, armed men have shown up frequently to search the cinder-block houses, mosque and school in this settlement of Crimean Tatars, a Muslim ethnic minority that has long… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Crimea annexation upends lives of Tatar minority
SARY-SU, Crimea (AP) ” Since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, armed men have shown up frequently and at odd hours to search the cinder-block houses, mosque and school in this settlement of Crimean Tatars, a Muslim ethnic minority… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Dutch to begin reassembling MH17 wreckage
Crash investigators will try to reconstruct the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July from wreckage that was brought by truck to a Dutch air force hangar. …read more Source:...
Dutch to begin assembling MH17 wreckage for investigation
Crash investigators will try to reconstruct the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July from wreckage that was brought by truck to a Dutch air force hangar. read more …read more Source: Otago Daily...
AP PHOTOS: Top pictures from Europe and Africa
LONDON (AP) ” Fighting between government forces and Russian-backed rebels remained intense in eastern Ukraine last week, prompting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to announce plans for a one-day test truce to help build a more… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Austria unhappy over diva’s outreach to Donetsk
VIENNA (AP) ” Opera star Anna Netrebko says she does not want to get involved in Ukraine’s politics. But her appearance with a separatist spokesman is being interpreted as taking sides by the government of Austria, her adopted home.Netrebko… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Wreckage from Ukraine plane crash in Netherlands
AMSTERDAM (AP) ” A convoy of eight trucks carrying wreckage from the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster has arrived at a Dutch military base, as the official investigation into the cause of the plane’s destruction continues.Flight… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
