Section: Australia&NZ
Dutch report on Flight MH17 fires up Russian objections
The final official report is due out later today on the Malaysia Airlines B777 shot down over Ukraine. …read more Source: The National Business...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko says vote needed in pro-Russia strongholds (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko on Sunday stressed the need for legitimate elections in the country’s separatist regions in order to eventually re-integrate the pro-Moscow strongholds. …read more Source: The West...
Final MH17 report to be released
International investigators will tomorrow release their final report into the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 over war-torn Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Families brace for final MH17 report
INTERNATIONAL investigators are set to release their final report into the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 over war-torn Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Families brace for final MH17 air crash report
INTERNATIONAL investigators will release their final report into the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 over war-torn Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Ukraine needs IMF bailout to avoid default
Ukraine is confident the international community won’t let Russia hold “hostage” an IMF bailout package that Kiev needs to avoid default. …read more Source:...
One killed in east Ukraine despite shaky truce (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – One person was killed and three others wounded Saturday as fresh clashes erupted in eastern Ukraine’s rebel bastion of Donetsk, violating a ceasefire that had been holding for several weeks, separatist and loyalist sources said. …read more Source: The West...
Syria, migrant crisis coverage wins war correspondents prizes (AFP)
Bayeux (France) (AFP) – France’s prestigious Bayeux-Calvados award for war correspondents on Saturday honoured journalists covering conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, as well as Europe’s worst migrant crisis since World War II. …read more Source: The West...
‘One killed’ in eastern Ukraine clashes despite truce (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – One person was killed and another three wounded Saturday in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, a pro-Moscow rebel bastion, as clashes broke a ceasefire that had held for several weeks, separatist and loyalist sources said. …read more Source: The West...
Egypt signs deal for two French warships (AFP)
Cairo (AFP) – Egypt signed a contract Saturday to buy two Mistral warships, whose sale to Russia Paris cancelled because of the Ukraine crisis, a delegation member with the visiting French prime minister said. …read more Source: The West...
