Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
Australia sends 100 more police for MH17 mission, as rhetoric softens
Police may be armed and backed up by defence personnel, but Tony Abbott stresses their only brief is to bring bodies homeAustralia is sending 100 more federal police officers to Europe in the hope they will be able to join a Dutch-led mission to secure the site of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.Tony Abbott said some of the police could...
More journalists detained in Ukraine while reporting on MH17 tragedy
Further to my posting yesterday about the pressures placed on journalists in Ukraine, there have been more abductions. Both sides in the conflict were responsible for detaining reporters.CNN reports that a Ukrainian journalist working as a fixer for the broadcaster, Anton Skiba, is being held by pro-Russian separatists. … …read more...
MH17: Australia ready to send police to secure crash site
Tony Abbott says 90 police officers are ready to be deployed to eastern Ukraine site where Malaysia Airlines plane was downedAustralia’s prime minister has said his country is close to finalising a deal with Ukraine to send police and a small number of troops to secure the Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane crash site as part of a multinational...
MH17 site: Obama and Abbott agree on push for access as more wreckage found
US president promises to work closely with Australia set up ‘full, unimpeded and transparent’ international investigationThe US president, Barack Obama, and the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, have held further talks on securing access for investigators to the MH17 air crash site in eastern Ukraine.In the phone call on Friday...
Abbott has handled the MH17 crisis with dignity. Now he must insist the attackers are brought to justice | Bruce Haigh
There is nothing manufactured for electoral advantage in how Tony Abbott is handling the MH17 crisis. He should apply his instinctive compassion to domestic politics, tooTony Abbott has handled the MH17 crisis with pluck and maturity and that seems to be the general consensus. On this issue he has shown greater leadership than Barack Obama and...
MH17 crash: sanctions against Russia are illegal, ambassador claims
Moscow insists documents that show Russians armed the separatists who shot down Malaysia Airlines plane are forgedThe west is imposing “illegal, unreasonable and counter-productive” sanctions against Russia based on internet forgeries that do not prove any of its missiles shot down the Malaysian airliner, the Russian ambassador to...
Ukrainian prime minister Arseny Yatseniuk resigns
Yatseniuk quits as he berates parliament for failing to pass law taking control of energy sector as Russian gas supply dwindlesUkraine’s prime minister has tendered his resignation, berating parliament for failing to pass legislation to take control over the country’s increasingly precarious energy situation and to increase army...
Fred returns to Shakhtar Donetsk having stayed away after MH17 disaster
Fred one of six players who refused to return to Ukraine Shakhtar say player has now reappeared at team campClub has moved HQ to Kiev and will play matches in LvivThe Brazilian midfielder Fred has arrived back in Ukraine for training with Shakhtar Donetsk, having initially refused to travel in the wake of the MH17 disaster.Fred was one of six...
MH17 crash site: Australian foreign minister pushes for access
Julie Bishop says negotiations are under way amid reports Australian police and troops may be deployed to areaThe crash site of MH17 remains under the control of Russian-backed separatists and negotiations for access for international investigators are under way, the Australian foreign minister, Julie Bishop, has said. The Dutch foreign minister,...
Calls for Tory MP to stand down as trade envoy over Russian business links
Cameron’s advisor Charles Hendry heads body promoting Russo-British trade as MPs urger stronger sanctionsOne of David Cameron’s trade envoys and former ministers is facing calls to stand down over for his links to a pro-Russian business group.Charles Hendry, a Tory MP and former energy minister, is listed as president of the...
