Section: Ireland
Crimea without electricity after pylons blown up
Crimea has been left without electricity supplies from Ukraine after pylons carrying power lines to the Russia-annexed peninsula were blown up overnight. …read more Source: RTÉ...
State of emergency declared in Crimea after electricity pylons ‘blown up’
Almost two million people without power after attack thought to be by Ukrainian nationalists …read more Source: The Irish...
Crashed South Sudan plane in ‘no state to fly’
The decades-old Antonov plane that crashed in South Sudan, killing at least 36 people, “was is no state to fly”, the Ukraine-based aircraft company said. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Dutch PM demands that Russia co-operate with MH17 inquiry
Dutch report finds missile fired from land held by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine …read more Source: The Irish...
Euro 2016: Ireland to face Ukraine, Bosnia, Sweden or Hungary in play-offs
Draw for the play-offs, in which Republic of Ireland will be unseeded, will be made on Sunday …read more Source: The Irish...
Flight MH17 ‘shot down by Russian-made missile’
Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board has said. …read more Source: RTÉ...
MH17: Dutch report to say Russian-made missile hit plane
Malaysian passenger airplane was shot down over eastern Ukraine in September 2014 …read more Source: The Irish...
Pro-Russia rebels in Ukraine postpone elections
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine today postponed local elections that the government had said were illegitimate and which, if they went ahead, could have derailed Ukraine’s fragile peace process. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Obama and Putin discuss Ukraine and Syria
US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin shook hands today at United Nations headquarters and went into their first substantial bilateral talks in two years. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Rebels order UN agencies to leave Ukraine
Pro-Russian rebels have ordered UN agencies working in the separatist stronghold of Lugansk in east Ukraine to leave the area by today, the UN aid chief said. …read more Source: RTÉ...
