Section: Australia&NZ
Ukraine reaches ‘win-win’ deal with creditors on $18 billion debt – 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, involving a 20 percent reduction in total… …read more Source: The West...
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...
