Section: The United Kingdom
Qantas should be forced to stop flying over war zones, says union leader
Transport Workers Union national secretary says Abbott government should insist on planes being reroutedThe Abbott government must step in to reroute Qantas and other Australian flights away from conflict zones after the MH17 tragedy, a union leader says.The national secretary of the Transport Workers Union (TWU), Tony Sheldon, said travellers...
MH17: Abbott says Australia is unlikely to follow tougher US and EU sanctions
Prime minister says his priority is recovering bodies from the crash site as the US and EU increase sanctions against Russia Australia is unlikely to follow the US and European Union in pursuing new sanctions against Russia as its focus remains on recovering the bodies of victims of the downed flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine.Tony Abbott played...
Ukraine crisis: Sanctions will make Russia’s ‘weak economy even weaker’, says President Obama
A new wave of sanctions against Russian banks and companies will be imposed within days by the European Union, supported by fresh action against President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies. …read more Source: The...
US follows EU in setting new sanctions targeting Russian economy
US decision comes soon after the European Union punished Moscow over continued backing of Ukrainian separatists Barack Obama announced a new set of economic sanctions against sectors of the Russian economy on Tuesday, soon after the European Union punished Moscow for its continued backing for Ukrainian separatists with its most punitive measures...
‘Human Barbie’ Valeria Lukyanova shows support for Putin by posing on Crimean beach
Model Valeria Lukyanova, 28, from Ukraine, proudly posed in the Black Sea peninsula which has been boycotted by millions of tourists since the Kremlin’s annexation of the region from Ukraine. …read more Source: Daily...
‘Vladimir Putin is a thug and a liar’ says British diplomat Sir Peter Westmacott
Sir Peter Westmacott, UK ambassador to the US, condemned Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine ahead of a meeting in Brussels to impose tougher economic sanctions. …read more Source: Daily...
Ukraine’s civilian casualties
Thousands living in eastern Ukraine are caught in the escalating conflict between government forces and Russian-backed separatists …read more Source: Financial...
EU sanctions on Russia agreed putting City of London in front line
The City of London will be in the front-line of economic sanctions against Russia after the European Union pulled back from measures that would hit a French defence deal or harm Germany’s engineering exports …read more Source: The...
Ukraine: fighting closes in on rebel-held Donetsk
Chances of Dutch and Australian forensic scientists reaching MH17 crash site recede further as separatists accuse their escorts of working for US and Ukrainan interests …read more Source: The...
Ukraine would accept mutual ceasefire, says John Kerry – video
John Kerry issues a statement after meeting with Ukraine’s foreign minister, Pavlo Klimkin, to discuss the conflict between Ukrainian armed forces and pro-Russian separatists, as well as access to the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. Klimkin met with the US secretary of state John Kerry at the state department in Washington on...
