Section: Australia&NZ
UN holds emergency meeting over fresh Ukraine fighting (AFP)
New York (AFP) – The UN Security Council on Friday urged all sides in Ukraine to respect a Europe-brokered ceasefire, as the warring parties accused each other of endangering the truce. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine requests UN emergency meeting over fresh fighting (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – The UN Security Council will on Friday discuss an upsurge in fighting in east Ukraine that rattled the official truce. …read more Source: The West...
G7 will discuss extending sanctions on Russia – EU official (Reuters)
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The G7 summit in Germany starting on Sunday will discuss extending European Union sanctions on Russia, probably for six months, a senior EU official said on Friday. … …read more Source: The West...
G7 summit to discuss wars, jihadists, Grexit fears (AFP)
Berlin (AFP) – The Bavarian Alps venue may look tranquil, but global turmoil — from Ukraine to Islamist militants and the Greek crisis — dominates the agenda of the G7 summit, which is being held without Russia. …read more Source: The West...
MH17 ‘key witness’ revealed
“IT WAS in the wrong place at the wrong time.” A mechanic in the Ukrainian Air Force has come forward to provide his version of events. …read more Source:...
Prominent Soviet dissident Leonid Plyushch dies (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Communist-era Ukrainian dissident Leonid Plyushch, who was detained for almost three years in a psychiatric ward by the Soviet authorities, died Thursday aged 76 close to Paris, a friend told AFP. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine truce ‘very fragile’: NATO chief (AFP)
Oslo (AFP) – Fresh fighting between Ukraine government forces and pro-Russian rebels is proof that a February truce is “very fragile”, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday, citing Moscow’s “special responsibility”. …read more Source: The West...
Blame exchanged in Ukraine
At least 24 people have died in renewed fighting in eastern Ukraine, threatening a tenuous peace deal. …read more Source: THE...
Defense secretary convenes meeting on Russia, Ukraine
STUTTGART, Germany (AP) ” Defense Secretary Ash Carter is summoning top American defense and diplomatic leaders to Germany Friday to map out a counterstrategy to Russia’s military operations in Ukraine and reassure allies worried… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko warns of threat of ‘full-scale invasion’ from Russia
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday there were 9000 Russian servicemen on Ukrainian territory and warned of the threat of a “full-scale invasion” by Russia along the whole joint border. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
