Section: Australia&NZ
Russia vetoes UN resolution on MH17 tribunal (AFP)
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Wednesday that sought to set up a special tribunal to try those responsible for shooting down flight MH17 over Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Poroshenko honours Ukraine Church leader derided by Russia (AFP)
Lviv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday unveiled a monument to a Catholic Church leader derided by Moscow for initially welcoming Nazi soldiers during World War II. …read more Source: The West...
Monitors face more fire in Ukraine
Monitors of Ukraine’s tattered truce are rethinking their operations after coming under “targeted” fire. …read more Source: THE...
Dutch PM appeals to Putin not to veto MH17 vote at UN (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Wednesday made an “urgent” appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin not to veto a UN Security Council resolution to try those who shot down flight MH17 over Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Dutch PM appeals to Putin ahead of MH17 tribunal vote at UN (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Wednesday made an “urgent” appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin not to veto a UN Security Council resolution to try those who shot down flight MH17 over Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Special Report – Ukraine struggles to control maverick battalions (Reuters)
By Elizabeth Piper and Sergiy Karazy KIEV (Reuters) – From a basement billiard club in central Kiev, Dmytro Korchynsky commands a volunteer battalion helping Ukraine’s government fight … …read more Source: The West...
UN Security Council to vote on MH17 tribunal
The UN Security Council is set to vote on whether an independent criminal tribunal should prosecute those responsible for shooting down MH17 over Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio New...
‘More civilian planes could be shot down like MH17’
UPDATE: More civilian planes could be shot out of the sky if the perpetrators of the MH17 atrocity go unpunished, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister says. …read more Source:...
Russian veto expected as Security Council votes on MH17
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ” Russia on Wednesday is expected to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution to set up an international criminal court to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine a year… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Girl ‘without a face’ finds new sister across the world (Yahoo7)
A girl born ‘without a face’ has a new sister after her parents adopted a Ukrainian orphan with the same condition. …read more Source: The West...



