Section: The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
Russian missile-maker contradicts Dutch MH17 crash report
MOSCOW (AP) ” A Russian state-controlled missile-maker says its own investigation of last year’s crash of the MH17 airliner over rebel eastern Ukraine contradicts conclusions from a Dutch probe.Results of the Dutch investigation… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Things to know about the report into cause of MH17 disaster
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ” The Dutch Safety Board is publishing its final report Tuesday into what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to break up high over Eastern Ukraine last year, killing all 298 people on board.A preliminary… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russia resumes gas supply to Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) ” Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom resumed supplies to Ukraine Monday, in a development that will help the country meet its energy needs through the harsh winter months.Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said supplies, which were… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Families brace for final MH17 air crash report
International investigators will tomorrow release their final report into the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over war-torn Ukraine, but the burning question of who was to blame will remain unresolved.The Dutch Safety… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Official: Moscow could hand over imprisoned Ukrainian
MOSCOW (AP) ” Russia’s justice minister says Moscow is open to discussing handing over to Kiev a Ukrainian pilot charged with the murder of two journalists.Nadezhda Savchenko, a Ukrainian pilot who served in a volunteer battalion… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
UN: Polio vaccines in Ukraine safe despite local concerns
LONDON (AP) ” The World Health Organization says it’s worried that millions of doses of polio vaccine might be wasted in the Ukraine after concerns were raised by a patient group that the doses are unsafe.The oral polio vaccine… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Missile fragments ‘found in MH17 bodies’
Fragments of a Buk anti-aircraft missile have been found in the bodies of victims of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 disaster in eastern Ukraine, an investigator has said.Vasyl Vovk, a senior officer of the Ukrainian Security Service… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine: separatist leaders can get only temporary immunity
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has indicated that Kiev would be willing to offer only temporary immunity for any separatist leaders running in the upcoming elections in the east.Klimkin said in comments carried… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine rebels to delay elections
MOSCOW (AP) ” Officials of the eastern Ukraine regions under the control of Russia-backed separatists say they will postpone local elections that were to be held in the next several weeks, an issue that had impeded progress toward… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine moves toward allowing foreigners in military
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukraine’s parliament has passed a measure that would allow foreigners to serve in its armed forces.The legislation, which cleared a final reading on Tuesday, comes as tensions persist with Russia over the separatist… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
