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MH17 crash wreckage removal starts in eastern Ukraine video
After months of delay work starts in eastern Ukraine to recovery of the remaining wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which crashed in July. The Dutch Safety Board is overseeing the 10 day operation in Donetsk, which has been delayed by heavy fighting. The debris is being loaded onto trucks and taken to a railway depot before being taken...
Russia and Poland expel diplomats in tit-for-tat measures
Russia calls Polish action unfriendly and unfounded and says Polish diplomats left for activities incompatible with their statusRussia said on Monday several of its diplomats had been expelled from Poland and that a number of Polish diplomats had left Russia after Moscow took adequate measures in return.The Russian foreign ministry did not say...
Angela Merkel pressures Australia to reveal its greenhouse gas targets
German chancellor tells Sydney audience climate change knows no borders and will not stop before the Pacific islandsThe German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has intensified pressure on Australia to say how deeply it will cut carbon emissions, telling a Sydney audience all countries should reveal their targets in the first quarter [of 2015] at the...
Workers recover debris from MH17 crash site in rebel-held eastern Ukraine
Dutch investigators and OSCE officials supervise operation of loading fragments onto trains for examination in KharkivWorkers in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine began to collect debris from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on Sunday, four months after the plane was brought down.The operation is being carried out under the...
Brisbane G20: Vladimir Putin makes early exit amid mounting international pressure over Ukraine – video
Russian President Vladimir Putin departs Brisbane, Australia, on Sunday before the formal end of the two-day G20 summit. Putin said he was leaving before the release of the official communiqué because of the long flight to Russia and he wanted to get some sleep. Putin came under intense pressure from G20 leaders over his government’s...
Vladimir Putin leaves G20 after leaders line up to browbeat him over Ukraine
Russian president says hes leaving early to get some sleep after long meetings in which he refused to give groundVladimir Putin quit the G20 summit in Brisbane early saying he needed to get back to work in Moscow on Monday after enduring hours of browbeating by a succession of Western leaders urging him to drop his support for secessionists in...
G20 Brisbane: final communique lists 800 measures for economic growth
G20 leaders approve a package estimated to increase global growth by at least 2.1% by 2018 after two-day summit Read the G20 communique G20 Brisbane: follow our live coverageG20 leaders have approved a package of 800 measures estimated to increase their economic output by at least 2.1% by 2018 if fully implemented.At the end of the two-day summit...
Vladimir Putin first to leave G20 summit, pleading lack of sleep
Russian president says the atmosphere was constructive and media reports of conflict with Western leaders were exaggeratedA tired Vladimir Putin has left Brisbanes G20 praising the summits constructive atmosphere and saying the reported fallout between him and leaders of Western countries were exaggerated by the media.Putin was the first world...
The Observers view on Putins Russia | Observer editorial
World leaders must stand up to Putin to bring him to heelThe steady advance of Russian tanks, artillery and troops into the rebel-held Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, documented last week by Nato and independent international observers, is an alarming reminder that the crisis that followed last Marchs annexation of Crimea is far from over. As...
G20: western leaders increase pressure on Vladimir Putin over Ukraine
The Russian president appears isolated as leaders of Britain, Germany, the US, Canada and Australia raise concerns over hostilities in eastern UkraineVladimir Putin appeared increasingly isolated at the G20, as a group of heads of government attending the Brisbane summit came together in their opposition to Russias aggression against Ukraine.The...
