Section: Australia&NZ
Ukraine could be heading to polls
TWO political parties have cut ties with Ukraine’s majority coalition in order to force an early election which some hope will rid the parliament of ‘Moscow agents’. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian government moves to ban Communist Party
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) A court in Kiev is holding a hearing on the government’s request to ban the Communist Party of Ukraine.The Justice Ministry says the party should be banned because it has supported pro-Russian rebels fighting… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Fighting rages near MH17 crash site in Ukraine (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Fighting between Ukrainian troops and rebels raged Thursday near the crash site of Malaysian flight MH17, as experts in Britain begin analysing crucial data from the downed airliner’s black boxes. …read more Source: The West...
Aussie investigators to see MH17 site
THREE Australian officials including Angus Houston will visit the MH17 crash site for the first time today after Tony Abbott said 50 AFP officers were on stand-by to go to Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Australia readies 50 police to send to Ukraine
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) Australia has sent 50 police to London in anticipation of deploying them to Ukraine to secure the Malaysian plane crash site as part of a proposed U.N. team, the Australian prime minister said Thursday.Prime… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
MH17 evokes both sorrow and trepidation among flight attendants
The flight attendants stand out. They come in groups of one and two, sometimes larger, like cabin crews arriving straight from a just-landed plane. They come to place flowers outside Terminal 3 at Schiphol Amsterdam Airport, where Malaysia Airlines flight 17 departed for a final time last Thursday before it was shot down over eastern Ukraine....
Fighters downed ‘from Russian soil’
TWO Ukrainian fighter jets have been shot down in the rebel-held area where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed. …read more Source: THE...
Victim’s phones ‘being answered’
MOBILE phones belonging to MH17 victims are being answered by ‘eastern-European voices’ as their bodies arrive in the Netherlands and fighting in Ukraine intensifies. …read more Source:...
Ukraine rebel commander acknowledges fighters had Buk missile
A powerful pro-Russian separatist leader has confirmed that rebels had an anti-aircraft missile of the type Washington says was used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, and it could have originated in Russia. …read more Source: ABC...
Rebels claim to have downed fighters
TWO Ukrainian fighter jets have been shot down in the rebel-held area where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed. …read more Source: THE...
