Section: New Zealand
MH17: Families of cabin crew sue Malaysia Airlines
The families of six crew members on a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet shot down over Ukraine nearly two years ago have filed lawsuits against the airline, accusing it of negligence and breach of contract. …read more Source:...
Ukraine says IS sympathizers tried to get to Europe
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukraine’s security service says it has uncovered a plot to smuggle Islamic State sympathizers to Western Europe.The SBU said in a statement Wednesday that it has sent an undercover agent posing as an IS sympathizer… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine’s own Joan of Arc
He probably didn’t know it at the time, but Russia President Vladimir Putin may have unleashed his own worst nightmare.Former helicopter pilot Nadia Savchenko, 35, was released by Russia last week in a prisoner swap after serving… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Freed pilot Savchenko sworn in as Ukrainian lawmaker
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who spent two years in Russian custody before she was released last week, has been sworn in as a lawmaker in the national parliament.Savchenko was elected as a lawmaker in 2014 while… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
EU leader Juncker to visit Russia in sign of diplomatic thaw
MOSCOW (AP) ” A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin says the European Commission’s president is coming to Russia next month in what would be the most high-profile EU visit since Russia annexed Crimea two years ago.Dmitry… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Pro-Russian rebels kill 5 Ukrainian soldiers
Five Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and four wounded in the past 24 hours as a result of attacks by pro-Russian rebels in separatist eastern regions. …read more Source:...
Fire at Ukrainian home for the elderly kills 17, injures 5
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukraine’s emergency services say a pre-dawn fire has swept through a private home for the elderly, killing 17 people and injuring five others.No cause has yet been determined for the fire that broke out Sunday at the… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
At least 16 dead in Ukraine fire
At least 16 people died when a makeshift home for elderly people outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev caught fire in the early hours of Sunday, the emergencies ministry said.”The bodies of 16 people have been found at the site of… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Seventeen killed in Ukraine rest home fire
Seventeen people have been killed after a fire broke out in a residential building housing elderly people in a village near Kiev, Ukraine’s state emergency service said in a statement on Sunday. …read more Source:...
Sixteen killed in Ukraine rest home fire
Sixteen people have been killed and one is missing after a fire broke out in a residential building housing elderly people in a village near Kiev, Ukraine’s state emergency service said in a statement on Sunday. …read more Source:...
