Section: Australia&NZ
Ukraine reaches debt relief deal with creditors
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukraine has reached a crucial deal with its international bondholders that will help prop up its government finances and keep the struggling country from defaulting on its debt.Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukrainian prime minister says government has reached debt restructuring deal with creditors
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukrainian prime minister says government has reached debt restructuring deal with creditors . …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine has reached ‘win-win’ debt deal with creditor group – Finance Minister (Reuters)
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s finance minister said a “win-win” deal for restructuring $18 billion of debt had been agreed with a group of its largest creditors. The minister, Natalia Yare… …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine PM announces ‘good financial news’, calls special government meeting (Reuters)
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said that Ukraine had received “good financial news” and he called a special government meeting for later on Thursday. His ann… …read more Source: The West...
Obama and German leader discuss violence in Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) ” President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany have discussed the recent rise in violence in eastern Ukraine from increased attacks by combined Russian-separatist forces.The White House says they… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine negotiators call for school-start truce
MINSK, Belarus (AP) ” The warring sides in the eastern Ukraine conflict have called for a cease-fire on Sept. 1, the day that the new school year is to begin.Speaking after a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in the Belarusian… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
EU-Russia ties at new low ahead of Ukraine talks (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – Ties between the EU and Russia remain at their lowest ebb over the conflict in Ukraine, ahead of a series of key talks including a visit by President Petro Poroshenko to Brussels on Thursday. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine says EU ready to toughen stance against Russia (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine said Tuesday that the leaders of Germany and France had agreed to back “firm” steps against Russia should pro-Moscow rebels hold disputed elections in the ex-Soviet state’s separatist east. …read more Source: The West...
Russian court sentences Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov to 20 years in jail
A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov to 20 years in a high-security penal colony for “terrorist attacks” in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in April 2014, RIA news agency said. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Raptors sent to contain Russia
The US will deploy F-22 Raptors in Europe to reassure allies worried by Russia’s actions in Ukraine. …read more Source: THE...
