Section: New Zealand
Germany: No plans to add US to group solving Ukraine crisis
MUNICH (AP) ” Germany’s foreign minister says there are no plans to add the U.S. to the group of countries that have been meeting in efforts to help reduce tensions in eastern Ukraine.Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel met his French,… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Pence: US will ‘hold Russia accountable,’ demand it honor deal in eastern Ukraine even as Trump seeks common ground
MUNICH (AP) ” Pence: US will ‘hold Russia accountable,’ demand it honor deal in eastern Ukraine even as Trump seeks common ground. …read more Source: The New Zealand...
UN: 1 million children in eastern Ukraine urgently need aid
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ” United Nations officials say 1 million children urgently need humanitarian aid in eastern Ukraine, and the number has nearly doubled in a year.The U.N.’s children’s agency, UNICEF, reported the statistic Friday.More… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Rebel leader in eastern Ukraine issues military threat
MOSCOW (AP) ” The leader of pro-Russia separatist rebels has warned that they may use force to drive out Ukrainian troops from positions in eastern Ukraine.Alexander Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukrainian hacker gets prison for leading online theft ring
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ” A Ukrainian hacker who admitted using thousands of infected computers to steal user names and passwords for bank accounts and other online services has been sentenced to 41 months in prison.Sergey Vovnenko was… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine’s president vows to resume coal supply from east
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukraine’s president has pledged to resume coal supplies from separatist-controlled parts of the country.Fighting in Ukraine’s industrial east between government troops and Russia-backed rebels has killed more than… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Donetsk residents say OSCE monitors inffectual
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) ” About 1,000 residents of Ukraine’s largest rebel-held city have demonstrated outside the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s office there to complain that the monitoring mission in the conflict… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Sharp rise in Russian disinformation: Nato
moscow_kremlin.jpg Russian state-funded media deny acting as the propaganda arm of the Kremlin.. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. NATO accused Russia of escalating a disinformation campaign since the Kremlin’s 2014 seizure of Ukraine’s Crimea region, saying Russian websites such as Sputnik and RT had posted false stories, the...
Ukrainian author seized in Belarus, ordered to leave
MINSK, Belarus (AP) ” A noted Ukrainian poet and novelist says he was seized by security agents in the middle of the night while visiting the capital of Belarus and ordered to leave the country.In a posting on a social media website,… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Kremlin: no Ukraine ‘deal’ with US possible
MOSCOW (AP) ” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman is rejecting suggestions that the Kremlin and the Trump Administration may try to negotiate a deal over the war in eastern Ukraine.Last week saw a surge in fighting between… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
