Section: Australia&NZ
30 years after blast, labor to clean Chernobyl’s traces
CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine (AP) ” Thirty years after the world’s worst nuclear accident, the Chernobyl power plant is surrounded by both desolation and clangorous activity, the sense of a ruined past and a difficult… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Lessons of Chernobyl disaster, 30 years on (AFP)
Vienna (AFP) – Ukraine will next week mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, when human error and flawed Soviet reactor technology led to the world’s worst nuclear accident. …read more Source: The West...
NATO, Russia to hold highest-level talks since Crimea annexation (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – NATO and Russia begin their highest level talks for nearly two years on Wednesday, in a bid to ease military tensions over the Baltic Sea and the simmering violence still gripping eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Dutch govt narrowly beats call to scrap EU-Kiev deal (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s ruling coalition Tuesday narrowly defeated a motion calling for the country to immediately pull out of an EU-Ukraine deal rejected by voters in a referendum this month. …read more Source: The West...
MH17 families mulling lawsuit against Malaysia Airlines (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Dozens of families of those killed when a missile shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine two years ago are considering suing the carrier for compensation, their lawyer told AFP Tuesday. …read more Source: The West...
Russia opens ‘extremism’ probe into US-funded Crimea news site (AFP)
Simferopol (AFP) – Russian security forces in annexed Crimea on Tuesday opened a criminal probe into a US-funded news site for allegedly condoning extremism, searching three journalists’ homes and hauling them in for questioning. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine President edges closer to prisoner swap deal with Putin (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday said he had made progress towards agreeing a deal with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to swap jailed pilot Nadiya Savchenko for two alleged Russian soldiers. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko hints at deal with Russia to swap pilot Savchenko (Reuters)
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday he had agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin a framework for a deal to secure the release of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savch… …read more Source: The West...
Deal reached on Ukraine pilot: Poroshenko (AP)
Ukraine claims a deal has been reached with Russia to release its pilot Nadezhda Savchenko who was sentenced to 22 years in prison by a Russian court. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine’s president says he has reached a deal with Russia to free a Ukrainian pilot
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukraine’s president says he has reached a deal with Russia to free a Ukrainian pilot. …read more Source: The New Zealand...
