Section: New Zealand
Portugal, Romania to return to Eurovision contest in 2017
GENEVA (AP) ” Organizers of the Eurovision song contest say Portugal and Romania will return as the glitzy, popular show heads to Ukraine’s capital of Kiev next year.The European Broadcasting Union said Monday the May 11-15, 2017… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukrainian man renames himself iPhone 7 to win the phone
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” A Ukrainian man has officially changed his name to iPhone 7 after an electronics store offered the latest Apple product to the first five people who do that.The 20-year old iPhone Sim (Seven) got the coveted… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Hackers: emails show ties between Kremlin, Ukraine rebels
MOSCOW (AP) ” A group of Ukrainian hackers has released thousands of emails from an account used by a senior Kremlin official that appear to show close financial and political ties between Moscow and separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine.The… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Jailed Ukrainian filmmaker ‘staying’ in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukraine says Russia is refusing to hand over jailed Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit terror attacks by a Russian military court in 2015 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.Ukraine’s… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russia agrees to armed OSCE monitors in Ukraine’s east
MOSCOW (AP) ” The Kremlin says President Vladimir Putin has welcomed the deployment of armed OSCE observers in eastern Ukraine.Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov spoke after the Russian leader attended the four-way talks in Berlin… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
The Latest: Ukraine says agreement reached on police mission
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukraine’s president says an agreement has been reached at a summit with the leaders of Russia, France and Germany on deploying an armed police mission in separatist eastern Ukraine.Petro Poroshenko’s comments were… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Thousands attend warlord’s funeral in Ukraine’s rebel east
MOSCOW (AP) ” Thousands have turned out for the funeral of a senior commander of pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine, who was killed in a bomb blast.Arsen Pavlov, 33, known under his nom de guerre Motorola, was killed Sunday… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Germany hosts Ukraine summit, also expected to discuss Syria
BERLIN (AP) ” The leaders of Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France will hold a summit in Berlin for talks on the stagnant peace process in eastern Ukraine ” a meeting that also is expected to touch on Syria’s civil war.Prospects of… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
German, Russian, Ukrainian, French leaders to meet in Berlin
BERLIN (AP) ” Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office says she will host a meeting with the Russian, Ukrainian and French presidents on Wednesday to discuss efforts toward peace in eastern Ukraine.A German government statement Tuesday… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Merkel’s office: German, French, Russian, Ukrainian leaders to meet in Berlin Wednesday evening
BERLIN (AP) ” Merkel’s office: German, French, Russian, Ukrainian leaders to meet in Berlin Wednesday evening. …read more Source: The New Zealand...
