Section: The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
Biden to meet with Ukraine government leaders next month
WASHINGTON (AP) ” Vice President Joe Biden will visit Ukraine early next month for meetings with the country’s president, prime minister and members of parliament.The White House says Biden also plans meetings with civic leaders… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukrainian cleared of planning to bomb Russia’s UK embassy
LONDON (AP) ” A jury has cleared a Ukrainian man accused of plotting to blow up the Russian embassy in London after being radicalized by the conflict in eastern Ukraine.Prosecutors said 35-year-old Vadim Bezkorovainiy searched the… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Helicopter crashes in Slovakia, killing 6
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) ” Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak says a Ukrainian helicopter has crashed in eastern Slovakia, killing six people.Kalinak says the helicopter crashed Friday in Slovak territory, on the border with… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukrainian lawmakers approve gay rights bill
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukrainian lawmakers have approved a bill that bans discrimination of gays, key legislation intended to help pave the way for visa-free travel between Ukraine and the European Union.The 450-seat parliament on… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Bubka: IAAF should not punish innocent Russian athletes
LONDON (AP) ” Thirty years later, Sergei Bubka still feels the pain of missing out on a chance of a gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics because of the Soviet boycott.”It’s even more painful now,” the Ukrainian pole vault… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine says 1 solider killed, 5 wounded in separatist raids
MINSK, Belarus (AP) ” Ukraine says a soldier has been killed and five others wounded in separatist attacks in eastern Ukraine and that a rise in violence is threatening the region’s delicate truce.Col. Andriy Lysenko, presidential… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Carter says Russia, China potentially threaten global order
SIMI VALLEY, California (AP) ” U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Saturday accused Russia of endangering world order, citing its incursions in Ukraine and loose talk about nuclear weapons, and said the U.S. defense establishment… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Rebels accuse Ukrainian government of using heavy weaponry
MOSCOW (AP) ” Separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine have accused government forces of shelling residential areas under their control with heavy artillery.The uptick in fighting, reported by both side in the past few days, comes as… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine’s rebel center in limbo as fighting dies down
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) ” The fighting has subsided, but Donetsk is quickly sinking into the past ” a shabby Soviet-like state of empty streets and deprivation. Huge portraits of Josef Stalin hanging in the city center only reinforce… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Weapons pullback in eastern Ukraine in jeopardy
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed rebels in the east of the country are threatening to stop the ongoing weapons withdrawal if their positions continue to come under attack.Olexander Turchynov, chairman… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
