Section: Australia&NZ
EU weighs Ukraine policy, Russia sanctions
MILAN (AP) European Union foreign ministers are weighing the 28-nation bloc’s stance in the Ukraine crisis amid increasing calls to beef up economic sanctions against Russia.The ministers’ meeting Friday in Milan comes a day after… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
UN: Pro-Russian rebels, Ukraine target civilians
GENEVA (AP) The U.N. human rights office says around three dozen people a day are being killed in eastern Ukraine where the death toll has risen to at least 2,220.It says both sides are committing a range of abuses targeting civilians… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
West in a quandary as Russia opens new front in Ukraine ‘hybrid warfare’
Ukraine just got uglier. The problem is that for all its huffing and puffing, the West is not quite sure about how to respond. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Putin urges escape route for troops
UPDATE: Vladimir Putin calls on pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine to open a “humanitarian corridor” to allow Ukrainian troops to escape rebel-held region. …read more Source:...
Russia’s Putin calls for release of Ukrainian POWs
MOSCOW (AP) Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has called on pro-Russian separatists fighting government troops in eastern Ukraine to release Ukrainian soldiers they took prisoner and allow them to return home.Putin said in a statement… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Obama cautions against using force to solve crises
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama, faced with deepening crises in the Middle East and Ukraine, is putting the brakes on the notion that American military power can solve either conflict.While that stance is in keeping with… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russian fund with US advisers eludes sanctions
WASHINGTON (AP) As President Barack Obama warns of stepped-up economic punishments against Russia for its military incursions inside Ukraine, U.S. sanctions have so far avoided one prominent financial institution: the $10 billion… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Tan-suited Obama a victim of his own honesty
Perhaps it was sign of America’s war-weariness, or at least that of its pundit class, a group that has clearly tired of discussing the nation’s seemingly intractable crises in Ukraine, Iraq and Syria. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Banks lose $US23 million on average from cybercrime: survey
Cyber attackes on US banks linked to US sanctions on Russia over Ukraine. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Yes we tan!
He may have been addressing issues in Ukraine and Iraq but it was Obama’s tan suit that took centre stage — and not in a good way. …read more Source: THE...
