Section: Australia&NZ
Seventeen killed in Ukraine rest home fire
Seventeen people have been killed after a fire broke out in a residential building housing elderly people in a village near Kiev, Ukraine’s state emergency service said in a statement on Sunday. …read more Source:...
Seventeen die in fire at Ukraine home for elderly: official
Seventeen people are dead after a makeshift home for elderly people outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev caught fire in the early hours of Sunday, local emergency services say. …read more Source: ABC...
Sixteen killed in Ukraine rest home fire
Sixteen people have been killed and one is missing after a fire broke out in a residential building housing elderly people in a village near Kiev, Ukraine’s state emergency service said in a statement on Sunday. …read more Source:...
Ex-NATO chief, PM named as adviser to Ukraine’ president
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ” A former NATO Secretary-General and Danish prime minister has been named an adviser to Ukraine’s president.Anders said on Twitter Saturday that he will do his “utmost to promote security, economic reforms… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Crimea question closed forever: Putin (AAP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin says the subject of Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, “is closed forever”. …read more Source: The West...
German FM floats possible ‘step by step’ easing of Russia sanctions (AFP)
Tallinn (AFP) – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday floated the possibility of a “step by step” reduction of EU sanctions against Russia if there is headway on ending the conflict in Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Putin in Greek trip as EU sanctions talks loom (AFP)
Athens (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Greece on Friday aiming to reinforce a relationship with one of his few friends in the EU amid continuing diplomatic tensions with the West. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine pilot Savchenko ‘ready to negotiate with pro-Moscow separatists’ (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, freed from a Russian jail this week, on Friday said she is ready to negotiate with pro-Russian separatists on releasing prisoners. …read more Source: The West...
Savchenko: I could run for president if Ukrainians want it
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko who came home on Wednesday after two years in Russian custody says she would run for president if that’s what Ukrainians desire.Savchenko was pardoned by President Vladimir Putin… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
EU faces ‘difficult’ talks on Russia sanctions: Germany (AFP)
Riga (AFP) – Germany said Thursday the EU was facing difficult talks on extending sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine due to the increased resistance of some member states, and denied that a new Cold War was afoot. …read more Source: The West...
