Section: Australia&NZ
Conditions ‘still not right’ for Mistral sale to Russia: Hollande (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – French President Francois Hollande said Thursday the conditions were “still not right” to go ahead with the sale of two Mistral warships to sanctions-hit Russia despite Moscow having backed a new Ukraine peace plan. …read more Source: The West...
EU ready for ‘necessary steps’ if Ukraine pact breached: Tusk (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – The EU warned Russia Thursday it was ready to take further measures in addition to the sanctions it has already imposed if a new Ukraine peace pact is breached, the bloc’s president Donald Tusk said. …read more Source: The West...
EU will ‘take necessary steps’ if Ukraine pact breached: Tusk (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – The EU is ready to take further measures in addition to the Russia sanctions it has already imposed if a new Ukraine peace pact agreed on Thursday is breached, the bloc’s president Donald Tusk said. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine MPs in bloody brawl as peacefire deal is signed (watch)
Perhaps the pressure of the impending ceasefire in Ukraine is getting to parliamentarians. …read more Source: Television New...
Ukraine MPs in bloody brawl as peacefire deal is signed
Perhaps the pressure of the impending ceasefire in Ukraine is getting to parliamentarians. …read more Source: Television New...
Chronology of marathon negotiations on a Ukraine accord (AFP)
Minsk (AFP) – The marathon talks in Minsk that led to Thursday’s Ukraine peace plan were punctuated with rumours, leaks, quips and arresting gazes by alternatively weary and incensed officials rotating in and out of negotiations. …read more Source: The West...
Explainer: who gets what in Ukraine peace deal
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Peace deal no solution to Russia-Ukraine conflict: analysts (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – The Ukraine ceasefire deal agreed Thursday appears little more than a sticking plaster that will allow Kiev and Ukraine rebels to wind down the fighting but leaves thorny questions on resolving the conflict unanswered, analysts said. …read more Source: The West...
Merkel, the woman in the middle of European crises (AFP)
Berlin (AFP) – Germany’s Angela Merkel was the first to concede after a Ukraine peace plan was reached in Minsk that “big hurdles” remain to silence the guns, but many are already hailing her as Europe’s peacemaker-in-chief. …read more Source: The West...
While you were sleeping: Cisco jumps
Wall Street climbed, bolstered by gains in shares of Cisco and a ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine, and optimism about Greek debt talks. …read more Source: The National Business...
