Section: Australia&NZ
Outraging Russia, Ukraine takes big step toward NATO (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine took a historic step toward NATO on Tuesday in a parliamentary vote that stoked Russia’s anger ahead of talks on ending the ex-Soviet state’s separatist war. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine takes historic step toward NATO (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine took a historic step toward NATO on Tuesday in a parliamentary vote certain to stoke Russia’s anger ahead of talks on ending the ex-Soviet state’s separatist war. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine abandons nonaligned status
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukraine’s parliament has voted to abandon the country’s nonaligned status, a move that could be a step toward seeking membership in NATO.Although Ukraine had pursued NATO membership several years ago, it declared… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine’s rebel university goes Russian
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) ” In eastern Ukraine, where the country’s pro-Russian insurgency has claimed thousands of lives, the region’s top university is a major victim of the bitterness and rifts the fighting has caused.The conflict… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko to hold peace talks with rebels ‘this week’ (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Monday a fresh round of peace talks with pro-Russian rebels would take place this week following an international push to revive the stalled negotiations. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine peace talks to resume Wednesday in Minsk: Poroshenko (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – A fresh round of peace talks with Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebels will take place in the Belarussian capital on Wednesday and Friday, President Petro Poroshenko said after speaking by phone with his French, Russian and German counterparts. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine peace talks in Minsk on Wednesday and Friday: Poroshenko (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – A fresh round of peace talks with Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebels will take place in the Belarussian capital on Wednesday and Friday, President Petro Poroshenko said after speaking by phone with his French, Russian and German counterparts. …read more Source: The West...
Crisis-hit Russia’s top allies forge ties with Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev followed his Belarussian counterpart to Ukraine on Monday as Moscow’s old allies reassessed their reliance on Russia in the heat of its financial malaise. …read more Source: The West...
Turkey-based AFP photographer wins Time laurel (AFP)
Washington (AFP) – Time magazine named AFP’s Bulent Kilic as its Best Wire Photographer for 2014 on Monday for his powerful images from the Syrian border, Ukraine and his native Turkey. …read more Source: The West...
Nazarbayev: Ukraine conflict is ‘nonsense’
MOSCOW (AP) ” Kazakhstan’s president says the conflict in eastern Ukraine is “nonsense” and is calling on Russia and Ukraine to find a way to resolve it.Nursultan Nazarbayev’s comments Monday, after a meeting with Ukrainian President… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
