Section: Australia&NZ
Dutch to begin assembling MH17 wreckage for investigation
Crash investigators will try to reconstruct the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July from wreckage that was brought by truck to a Dutch air force hangar. read more …read more Source: Otago Daily...
Energy-starved Ukraine gets first Russian gas since June (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Energy-starved Ukraine said on Tuesday it had received the first Russian natural gas shipments since a politically charged price dispute saw Moscow cut off its Westward-leaning neighbour in June. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine peace talks delayed but ceasefire largely holds (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Planned peace talks between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels were postponed on Tuesday but a ceasefire appeared to be largely holding along the frontline in the ex-Soviet republic’s war-shattered east. …read more Source: The West...
AP PHOTOS: Top pictures from Europe and Africa
LONDON (AP) ” Fighting between government forces and Russian-backed rebels remained intense in eastern Ukraine last week, prompting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to announce plans for a one-day test truce to help build a more… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Anti-graft squad targets corruption in Ukraine’s army (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – It must rank as one of the world’s most daunting jobs: …read more Source: The West...
Austria unhappy over diva’s outreach to Donetsk
VIENNA (AP) ” Opera star Anna Netrebko says she does not want to get involved in Ukraine’s politics. But her appearance with a separatist spokesman is being interpreted as taking sides by the government of Austria, her adopted home.Netrebko… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Wreckage from Ukraine plane crash in Netherlands
AMSTERDAM (AP) ” A convoy of eight trucks carrying wreckage from the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster has arrived at a Dutch military base, as the official investigation into the cause of the plane’s destruction continues.Flight… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine ceasefire holds as peace talks delayed
Planned peace talks between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels have been postponed but a ceasefire appears to be holding. …read more Source:...
Ukraine ceasefire holding, says President Poroshenko (AFP)
Singapore (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday a ceasefire along the front line in the east of his country appeared to be holding after Kiev declared a “day of silence” in the war with pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine receives first Russian gas since June cut (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine said on Tuesday it had received the first deliveries of Russian natural gas since a politically charged price dispute saw Moscow cut off shipments to its Westward-leaning neighbour in June. …read more Source: The West...
