Section: Australia&NZ
Ukraine battles fire near Chernobyl
Emergency services are battling to prevent Ukraine’s largest forest fire in 23 years spreading towards the abandoned nuclear plant. …read more Source: Radio New...
Fire breaks out near Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, poses no danger: officials
A forest fire breaks out near the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, the scene of the world’s worst civil nuclear disaster in 1986, but poses no danger to the site, officials say. …read more Source: ABC...
Forest fire rages near Chernobyl nuclear site (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – A forest fire broke out Tuesday near the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, scene of the world’s worst civil nuclear disaster in 1986, but posed no danger to the site, officials said. …read more Source: The West...
Biden implores Ukraine to do more to fight corruption
WASHINGTON (AP) ” Vice President Joe Biden is imploring Ukraine’s leaders to investigate and prosecute corruption that is rampant throughout the government.Biden says in a video message to a global aid conference for Ukraine that… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Forest fire blazes in Chernobyl off-limits zone
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Fire has engulfed a large sector of woods in the exclusion zone around the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says the fire is being brought under control.It… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine says rebels using rocket launchers
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukrainian military officials say separatist rebels in the east have resumed the use of rocket launchers that should have been withdrawn under a February peace deal.The army said in a statement Tuesday that rebels… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine’s rebels mete out rough justice in authority vacuum
KRASNYI PARTYZAN, Ukraine (AP) ” A bruised rebel fighter in battle fatigues is tied to a traffic pole, avoiding glances as a crude message hung about his neck flutters in the wind: “I am a marauder. I beat up and robbed my countrymen.”The… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Hunger strike Ukraine pilot ‘being transferred’ to Russian hospital (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Jailed Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko has resumed her hunger strike and is withering away, her lawyer said on Monday, adding that authorities planned to transfer her to a Russian civilian hospital. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine leader sees country ready for EU entrance in 5 years
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukraine’s president says his country will be able meet conditions to apply for European Union membership within five years.Speaking at an EU-Ukraine summit in Kiev, Petro Poroshenko said Ukraine deserves to… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Putin: ‘I don’t regret a thing’
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin said he has no regrets over his decision to take over Crimea from the Ukraine, because it righted a ‘historical injustice’. …read more Source:...
