Section: Australia&NZ
Ukraine probes ‘sniper attack’ on top prosecutor (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Tuesday launched a criminal probe into an alleged sniper attack on a top prosecutor who had been probing President Petro Poroshenko’s main political and business foes. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian accused of plotting attack against Russian Embassy
LONDON (AP) ” A prosecutor has accused a Ukrainian man of plotting a terror attack against the Russian Embassy in London after returning from a visit to eastern Ukraine at the height of the conflict there.Prosecutor Robin Sellars… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine reports sniper attack on top prosecutor
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukrainian authorities say a sniper shot at the country’s top prosecutor as he sat in his office, but that bulletproof glass prevented any casualties.Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin was in his office late Monday with… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Gov’t forces, rebels in eastern Ukraine report fighting
MOSCOW (AP) ” Government and separatist forces in eastern Ukraine are both reporting renewed fighting.The press office of the Ukrainian government operation there said on Tuesday that Russia-backed rebels shelled its positions outside… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
VISION 2020: FROM IVANO-FRANKIVSK TO AUSTRALIA AND AROUND THE WORLD
Bogdan Rudnytski interviewed Mаrusia Jarocky from Тhe Pastoral Council of UGCC in Australia and New Zealand. A delegation of nine Australians attended the Sixth Patriarchal Sobor of the UGCC in Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine… (Богдан Рудницький веде розмову із п-і Марусею Яроцькою з Пасторальної Ради УГКЦ в Австралії та Новій Зеландії....
Russian police raid Crimea Tatar TV channel, journalist homes (AFP)
Simferopol (AFP) – Russian police searched the offices of a Tatar TV channel in Crimea early Monday as well as homes of its employees as part of a new probe, the latest actions against the once popular network which was forced to go off air in April. …read more Source: The West...
Austria: 11 injured in Ukrainian tourist bus crash
VIENNA (AP) ” Austrian officials say a bus carrying Ukrainian tourists crashed through a guardrail while approaching a highway and flipped, injuring 11 people, two of them seriously.Firefighter spokesman Franz Resperger said the… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine leader says arrest of oligarch ally just ‘the start’ (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warned Sunday that the arrest of a millionaire associate of one of the country’s most powerful oligarchs was only “the start” of a fight against the corruption plaguing the ex-Soviet country. …read more Source: The West...
‘Exchanges of fire’ at east Ukraine airport flashpoint (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Kiev and pro-Russian separatists Sunday accused each other of firing on their positions around the ruins of Donetsk airport, a flashpoint in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Russian plane crash: Islamic State claims put Vladimir Putin in a bind
Will Vladimir Putin insist the plane crash be subject to a transparent investigation – of the kind he obstructed in the case of MH17 in Ukraine? …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
