Section: Australia&NZ
Bereaved to view MH17 wreckage at Dutch base (AFP)
GILZE-RIJEN AIRBASE (Netherlands) (AFP) – The first of around 500 relatives of those killed in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine visited the wreckage at a Dutch airbase on Tuesday, investigators said. …read more Source: The West...
Three dead as Kiev accuses Ukraine rebels of shelling
Three Ukrainian servicemen were killed and nine wounded as pro-Russian rebels shelled government positions despite a ceasefire deal, the military said, announcing Kiev’s highest casualty toll in several days. read more …read more Source: Otago Daily...
Malaysia Airlines MH17: Bereaved relatives view aircraft wreckage at Dutch airbase
The first of around 500 relatives of those killed in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine have visited the wreckage at a Dutch airbase. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Nadia Savchenko hunger strike: female Ukrainian pilot could starve to death in Russia ‘within days’
A Ukrainian air force pilot who has been on hunger strike in a Russian jail for 81 days after she says she was kidnapped and taken to the country may ‘die within days’. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Nadia Savchenko hunger strike: female Ukrainian pilot could starve to death in Russia
A Ukrainian air force pilot who has been on hunger strike in a Russian jail for 81 days after she says she was kidnapped and taken to the country may ‘die within days’. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot’s health stable, Russia says
MOSCOW (AP) ” A top Russian prison official says the jailed Ukrainian military pilot who has been on a hunger strike for nearly three months is in a stable condition.Anatoly Rudy told the Tass news agency Tuesday that if Nadezhda… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
MH17 next of kin allowed to view wreckage of downed flight
GILZE-RIJEN AIR BASE, Netherlands (AP) ” Relatives of people killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed over eastern Ukraine last year have visited a Dutch air base to view wreckage of the plane.For almost all the relatives,… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine hikes benchmark interest rate to 30 percent
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukraine’s central bank has sharply hiked its benchmark rate to 30 percent, from 19.5 percent, as financial authorities seek to reverse the rapid devaluation of the national currency.National Bank chairwoman… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Jailed Ukrainian pilot ‘may be transferred to hospital’ (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – A Ukrainian airforce pilot who has been on hunger strike in a Russian jail for 81 days will be transferred to a civilian hospital if her health deteriorates, the prison service said Tuesday. …read more Source: The West...
OSCE to monitor truce violation areas: Kiev (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany have agreed to send observers to flashpoint sites in eastern Ukraine as sporadic deadly attacks continue to rattle a shaky truce, Kiev said Tuesday. …read more Source: The West...
