Section: Australia&NZ
Lithuania blacklists 46 Russians for prosecuting Ukrainians
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) ” The Lithuanian government says it has blacklisted 46 Russian citizens involved in the criminal prosecution of several Ukrainians, including the imprisoned pilot Nadezhda Savchenko.Foreign Minister Linas… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
UN employee ‘captured’ by Ukraine rebels (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – The United Nations said Wednesday that one of its staff members had been captured by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine’s separatist east. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine eyes Thursday vote on new pro-EU government (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Strife-torn Ukraine appeared to move a step closer Wednesday to agreeing a new pro-EU government headed by parliament speaker Volodymyr Groysman that could be voted on the following day. …read more Source: The West...
Foreign Affairs Scope: US in range of North Korean rockets and Panama Papers fallout
Foreign Affairs Scope discusses Ukraine’s PM resigning, the Panama Papers and North Korea’s rocket engine test . With special feature audio. …read more Source: The National Business...
Dutch vote against EU-Ukraine treaty – final result (Reuters)
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch voters rejected the Ukraine-EU treaty by a large margin in a nonbinding referendum held last week, according to the final results published by the country’s Election Commis… …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian who faked age, name for school denied lower bail
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ” A 23-year-old Ukrainian man accused of faking his name and age while attending a Pennsylvania high school and having sex with an underage girl has been denied lower bail.Prosecutors on Tuesday also dropped… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
NATO says will hold Russia council meeting on April 20 (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – NATO will hold its first formal talks in nearly two years with Russia on April 20 to discuss the Ukraine crisis and other security issues, the US-led miltary alliance said Tuesday. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine parliament weighs PM resignation, government overhaul (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s parliament was weighing Tuesday whether to approve the resignation of embattled Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk as backroom talks raged about the make-up of a new pro-EU government. …read more Source: The West...
France seeks G20 tax haven blacklist, EU sanctions on evaders (Reuters)
PARIS (Reuters) – France will seek tougher EU sanctions on people who help to facilitate tax evasion and a G20 blacklist of uncooperative tax havens, the Finance Ministry said on Monday following the … …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine pilot Savchenko ‘risks developing fatal blood clot’ (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Medical tests on a jailed Ukrainian pilot on hunger strike show her blood is thickening, putting her at risk of developing a blood clot which could kill her, her lawyers said Monday. …read more Source: The West...
