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Visa, MasterCard pull service from Crimea
The world’s two largest credit and debit card companies, Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc, said on Friday (Saturday NZT) they could no longer support bank cards being used in Crimea, following US sanctions imposed earlier this month. …read more Source:...
Ukraine and rebels begin mass prisoner exchange
Kiev and pro-Russian separatists began an exchange of hundreds of prisoners of war on Friday (Saturday NZT), a state security service source said, part of a 12-point peace plan. …read more Source:...
No-one can intimidate Russia, says Vladimir Putin
Russia will not be intimidated over its actions in Ukraine and Crimea, President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday (Sunday NZT) as his foreign ministry warned that it was preparing to retaliate against fresh Western sanctions. …read more Source:...
Russia will react if US imposes new sanctions
Russia will take countermeasures if the US imposes new sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says. …read more Source:...
Football supporters stabbed during mass brawl in Kiev
St Etienne supporters were hurt in a mass brawl with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk fans following the Ukrainian side’s 1-0 Europa League victory in Kiev on Thursday (today NZT), local media reported. …read more Source:...
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:...
2014 a devastating year for millions of children
The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF declared 2014 a devastating year for children on Monday with as many as 15 million caught in conflicts in Central African Republic, Iraq, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and the Palestinian territories. …read more Source:...
Putin says Crimea is part of Russia historically and forever
Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended Moscow’s annexation of Crimea this year and implied that the “strategically important” peninsula will remain part of Russia “from now on and forever”. …read more Source:...
Russia admit recession likely to hit in 2015
Low oil prices and sanctions imposed on Moscow over Ukraine will send the Russian economy into recession next year, government officials said on Tuesday (Wednesday NZT), a dramatic change to an earlier forecast of 1.2 percent gross domestic product growth. …read more Source:...
Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels agree on ceasefire
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko nominated his foreign and defence ministers for new terms on Tuesday (Wednesday NZT), signalling a major change in policy is unlikely in the conflict with pro-Russian separatists in the east. …read more Source:...
