Section: Australia&NZ
EU leaders threaten more anti-Russian sanctions over Ukraine
BRUSSELS (AP) ” European Union leaders are threatening fresh sanctions against Russia because of what it sees as “growing support” of Moscow for separatists in eastern Ukraine during intensified fighting over the past days.In Tuesday’s… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
NATO blames Russia for Ukraine violence
NATO has blamed Russian-backed separatists for a sharp escalation of violence in eastern Ukraine and has called on Moscow to stop destabilising Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Auschwitz survivors ask if lessons have been learnt
Russia’s Vladimir Putin will be absent from the main event marking 70 years since Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, held against a backdrop of hostilities in?Ukraine?and warnings of a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe. …read more Source:...
Politics impinge on 70th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
Wary of political consequences and with on-going hostilities in Ukraine, Poland did not send a full diplomatic invitation to Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
UN’s political chief says deadly Ukraine rocket attacks could be war crimes
Deadly rocket attacks on the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol that “knowingly targeted civilians” violated international humanitarian law and could amount to war crimes, the UN political chief says.Jeffrey Feltman told an emergency… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
UN: deadly attack on Ukraine city could be war crime
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ” Deadly rocket attacks on the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol this weekend that “knowingly targeted civilians” violated international humanitarian law and could amount to war crimes, the U.N. political chief said… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Miners briefly trapped after Ukraine shelling
Nearly 500 coal miners in Ukraine were briefly trapped after their pit lost power when a shell hit an electricity substation. …read more Source:...
Russian riot police raid Crimean Tatar TV channel (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Masked Russian riot police on Monday raided the office of a television channel serving Crimean Tatars, a minority ethnic group in Crimea that opposed Moscow’s seizure of the peninsula from Ukraine last year. …read more Source: The West...
Attack on Ukraine’s Mariupol targeted civilians: UN (AFP)
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – A rocket attack on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol that killed 30 people at the weekend deliberately targeted civilians and the perpetrators must be brought to justice, a senior UN official said Monday. …read more Source: The West...
Vladimir Putin: Ukraine’s army is really just NATO’s ‘foreign legion’
NATO head dismisses the claim as ‘nonsense’ as 12 more are killed during a surge in fighting. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
