Section: New Zealand
Russia marks 2 year anniversary of Crimea annexation
MOSCOW (AP) ” Russian President Vladimir Putin is traveling to Crimea to mark the second anniversary of the peninsula’s annexation and inspect construction of a bridge meant to link it to mainland Russia.Russia’s annexation of Crimea,… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
France pushes for EU sanctions against Libyan officials
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) ” French foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault says Libyan officials who are blocking the country’s unity government will face sanctions.Ayrault is to meet Friday with the head of Libya’s unity government, Fayez… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine tears down giant Lenin statue
Exhaustive efforts to tear down Ukraine’s largest remaining monument to Vladimir Lenin have finally borne fruit as workers prised the late Soviet leader’s statue from its plinth in the city of Zaporizhzhya. …read more Source:...
Kremlin: Putin resists Obama’s call for Savchenko release
MOSCOW (AP) ” A Kremlin spokesman says Vladimir Putin is resisting President Barack Obama’s call for Russia to release a Ukrainian pilot who is on trial over the death of two Russian journalists.Nadezhda Savchenko was fighting with… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Obama urges Putin to release Ukrainian pilot Savchenko
WASHINGTON (AP) ” President Barack Obama has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to release Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko from Russian prison.That’s according to a senior Obama administration official who wasn’t authorized… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Slovakia’s president demands release of Ukrainian pilot
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) ” Slovakian President Andrej Kiska is calling for the immediate release of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko from prison in Russia.Kiska says Savchenko was abducted from Ukraine and her trial violates… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukrainian president mulling candidates for prime minister
MINSK, Belarus (AP) ” Ukraine’s president is considering the country’s finance minister as a possible replacement for embattled Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk amid talks to end a drawn-out political crisis.President Petro Poroshenko’s… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
France urges EU sanctions against Libya ‘spoilers’
BRUSSELS (AP) ” France is urging the European Union to impose sanctions against officials in Libya accused of blocking the unity government there.French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault called Monday for “sanctions against those… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukrainian pilot on trial in Russia ends hunger strike
MOSCOW (AP) ” A Ukrainian pilot on trial in Russia says she has agreed to take water but will continue a hunger strike following an appeal by Ukraine’s president.Nadezhda Savchenko, who served in a volunteer battalion against Russia-backed… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukrainian pilot denounces her trial in Russia as a farce
DONETSK, Russia (AP) ” Defiant in her closing statement Wednesday to a Russian court, Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko brandished her middle finger, burst into the Ukrainian national anthem and declared her trial in the death of… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
