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MH17 crash: first Australian victims formally identified
Family of Mary and Gerry Menke are relieved the couple have been identified and wish to thank all those who have helpedForensic experts have formally identified the first victims of the 38 Australian citizens and residents killed in the MH17 crash.Mary and Gerry Menke from the small coastal community of Mallacoota in far eastern Victoria were...
Dispatch: Inside Russia’s aid lorries bound for Ukraine
Roland Oliphant gets a glimpse inside some of the 270-strong convoy of Russian aid trucks as they prepare to enter Ukraine …read more Source: The...
Russian military vehicles enter Ukraine as aid convoy stops short of border
Column of 23 armoured personnel carriers and support vehicles cross border after dark, while 280 trucks come to halt separatelyThe white trucks of humanitarian aid rumbled through Russia in a convoy stretching for miles, moving slowly southwards on the M4 highway, amid a landscape of fertile fields and Ladas stopped at the roadside their boots...
Ukraine crisis: Russian convoy on the move as situation approaches potentially explosive endgame
There is a sense that the multiple strands of the six-month-old Ukraine conflict were fast converging in what threatened to become an explosive and highly destructive endgame. …read more Source: The...
Russians will pay heavier price in sanctions war
Ban on lending to some Russian state-owned companies is beginning to biteCrates of peaches are turning to mush on the roadside. Not just Greek stone-fruit growers but farmers across Europe, the US and Asia are feeling the pinch after Russia’s decision to impose tit-for-tat sanctions. Among the losers are German pig farmers, British fishing...
Gaza and Crimea conflicts could have been predicted by monitoring cyber attacks
A surge in cyber attacks preceeded both the conflict in Ukraine and in Gaza, new research has found – leading to suggestions that the technique could be used to predict future fighting …read more Source: The...
Bombs fall in centre of Donetsk
Rebel forces and Ukraine’s army trade accusations over bombs that landed near the centre of Donetsk, killing two and injuring five …read more Source: Financial...
Ukraine sends OWN aid convoy of trucks to crisis-hit region as Russia’s approach border
The group of 262 trucks – which the Russians say is full of food and aid like sleeping bags and generators – was this morning around 280 miles from the Ukrainian border. …read more Source: Daily...
Ukraine rebel head Strelkov ‘quits’
Igor Girkin – known as Strelkov – resigns as the military chief of pro-Russian rebels in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, reports say. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian MP punches colleague in the face in parliament – video
Oleh Lyashko, the leader of Ukraine’s populist Radical Party, is punched by a colleague after an argument over soldiers fighting in east Ukraine. Lyashko and independent deputy Oleksandr Shevchenko square-off in front of media, exchanging profanities and engaging in a brief scuffle. The pair then face-off again and Shevchenko strikes...
