Section: Australia&NZ
No call for EU sanctions aginst Russia on Syria: Mogherini (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – The EU has no plans to impose sanctions on Russia over the conflict in Syria, foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Monday ahead of a leaders’ summit this week. …read more Source: The West...
“THANK YOU AUSTRALIA”
Bogdan Rudnytski interviewed Dr .Mykola Kulinich, Ambassador of Ukraine to Australia. (Богдан Рудницький веде розмову іх Надзвичайним і Повноважним Песлом України в Австралії д-ром Миколою Кулінічем – до підсумків року 2016-го, що минає…) …read more Source:...
Swiss extend freeze of Ben Ali, Mubarak, Yanukovych assets
BERLIN (AP) ” Switzerland has decided to keep assets of the former presidents of Tunisia, Egypt and Ukraine and their associates frozen for another year, a move meant to support investigators’ efforts.Assets belonging to and related… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Mkhitaryan sparkles as United reach Europa last 32
124229486-soccer-europa-zlh-mnu.jpg Manchester United’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan scores their first goal. Photo: Reuters Manchester United are warming to the task in the Europa League as they booked a spot in the last 32 with a 2-0 win over Zorya Luhansk on a freezing night in Ukraine on Thursday. …read more Source: Otago Daily...
Inside Ukraine’s house of horrors
THESE are the heartbreaking images from inside the flat where two tots were left to die after their mum apparently went off with her lover for nine days. …read more Source:...
Journalist in Crimea charged with extremism
MOSCOW (AP) ” The lawyer for a Crimean journalist says his client has been charged with extremism for allegedly undermining Russia’s territorial integrity, which could put him in prison for five years.Emil Kurbedinov said late on… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukrainian aircraft maker tweets Air Force One offer to Trump
The Ukrainian producer of the world’s largest aircraft offers to build a plane for Donald Trump, after the US President-elect said an order with Boeing for a new Air Force One should be scrapped. …read more Source: ABC...
NATO urges continued sanctions on Russia over Ukraine (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – Damaging EU economic sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine crisis must be kept in place to force Moscow to meet its Minsk ceasefire commitments, NATO head Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday. …read more Source: The West...
Wounded in east Ukraine struggle for artificial limbs (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Yulia Mikhailova considers herself lucky after surviving a shell strike on a trolley last year that killed 15 people in war-scarred east Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebel-held territory. …read more Source: The West...
NATO chief laments ‘serious’ security problems in Ukraine
BRUSSELS (AP) ” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says security problems are undermining peace efforts in eastern Ukraine, as a routinely violated cease-fire barely holds in the separatist Donbass region.Opening talks between… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
