Section: Australia&NZ
Truce reached for Ukraine airport
UKRAINE and pro-Russian separatists have agreed to a temporary ceasefire at rebel-held Donetsk airport where fierce fighting has raged since May. …read more Source:...
Ukraine names US national Jaresko as finance minister (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday confirmed US national Natalia Jaresko as finance minister while handing the economy portfolio to Lithuanian investment banker Aivaras Abromavicius in a new government designed to sweep out graft. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine lawmakers reappoint defence, foreign ministers to new government (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine lawmakers on Tuesday reappointed the current defence and foreign ministers to a new government formed after an October election put a new pro-Western coalition in charge of parliament. …read more Source: The West...
Russia admit recession likely to hit in 2015
Low oil prices and sanctions imposed on Moscow over Ukraine will send the Russian economy into recession next year, government officials said on Tuesday (Wednesday NZT), a dramatic change to an earlier forecast of 1.2 percent gross domestic product growth. …read more Source:...
Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels agree on ceasefire
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko nominated his foreign and defence ministers for new terms on Tuesday (Wednesday NZT), signalling a major change in policy is unlikely in the conflict with pro-Russian separatists in the east. …read more Source:...
NATO ministers condemn Russia, support Ukraine
BRUSSELS (AP) ” NATO foreign ministers are condemning what they call Russia’s “continued and deliberate destabilization” in Ukraine, and announcing new assistance for Ukraine’s military.The ministers, meeting in Brussels, spoke… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
The final journey for MH17
UNDETERRED by the winter freeze, authorities are moving pieces of the MH17 wreckage from Ukraine to the Netherlands … hoping to put the missing pieces of the puzzle together. …read more Source:...
Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels agree new truce (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels “agreed in principle” on a ceasefire in one separatist province and were working to conclude a broader truce on Tuesday that would end nearly eight months of bloodshed. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine, rebels agree ‘in principle’ to Lugansk ceasefire
Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels “agree in principle” to a ceasefire in the eastern war-torn region of Lugansk, one of the country’s two separatist provinces, Europe’s security agency says. …read more Source: ABC...
Change of leadership in Crimea means property grab
YALTA, Crimea (AP) ” One day in October, a dozen armed men in masks drove up to the gates of Yalta Film Studios. They weren’t actors, and this was no make-believe. It was a hostile takeover.”They forced all the employees onto the… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
