Section: Australia&NZ
FIFA rejects calls for Russia to lose WC18
FIFA has dismissed calls to strip the 2018 World Cup from Russia in the wake of the Malaysia Airlines tragedy over Ukraine …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
MH17 bodies still en route to Holland
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has visited Kharkiv in Ukraine as MH17 victims continue to be flown to the Netherlands for forensic identification. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
MH17 bodies still en route to Holland (AAP)
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has visited Kharkiv in Ukraine as MH17 victims continue to be flown to the Netherlands for forensic identification. …read more Source: The West...
Russia bans dairy imports from Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) Russia has announced a ban on all dairy imports from Ukraine starting next week, a move Kiev has dismissed as politically motivated.The Russian agency in charge of agricultural products said Friday it is banning imports… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russia ‘to give rebels deadlier missiles’
RUSSIA has been lobbing artillery shells into Ukraine and is planning to give the rebels even deadlier missiles, the US State Department said. …read more Source:...
MH17: Headway, but hurdles ahead
ONE week on, control of the MH17 investigation has been handed to the Dutch. But as Ukraine descends into further political instability, how will safe access to the crash site be maintained? …read more Source:...
Russian execs fear lasting damage from plane crash
MOSCOW (AP) Having for months dismissed Western sanctions on Russia as toothless, business leaders here are now afraid that the crash of the Malaysian jetliner will bring about an international isolation that will cause serious and… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Face to face with the Russian rebels
WHAT drives ordinary people to take up arms in their own country? Charles Miranda spent a morning with the separatist rebels in Ukraine’s east to find out. …read more Source:...
Russia raises key rate amid Ukraine concerns
MOSCOW (AP) Russia’s central bank has unexpectedly raised its key interest rate in a bid to stem inflation and support the currency as the country faces increasing economic pressure over its policies in Ukraine.The bank said Friday… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Australia to send troops to Ukraine crash site: PM (AFP)
Sydney (AFP) – Australian troops plan to join a police contingent in helping secure the Flight MH17 crash site in Ukraine, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Friday, while stressing the mission would be humanitarian in nature. …read more Source: The West...
