Section: Channels Television (Nigeria)
Four Suspects To Be Arrested For Shooting Down Flight MH17
Wilbert Paulissen of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) addresses at the press conference of the JIT on the ongoing investigation of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in 2014, in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, 19 June 2019. Dutch prosecutors are to charge four people with murder over the shooting down of flight MH17 over Ukraine, with a trial due on...
UN Security Council Rejects Russian Bid To Hold Ukraine Meeting
UN Security Council meeting on September 26, 2018, in New York on the sidelines/ AFP European countries backed by the United States on Monday blocked a Russian request to hold a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine’s new language law. Russia failed to garner the nine votes required to hold the meeting, which was requested on the same day...
Ukraine Inaugurates Comedian Zelensky As President
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky applauding during his inauguration ceremony at the parliament in Kiev on May 20, 2019. PHOTO: Vladyslav MUSIENKO / Ukrainian Prime Minister Press-service / AFP Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky stepped into his new role as Ukrainian president with his inauguration on Monday, launching a new era for the...
Ukraine To Hold Presidential Inauguration Monday
In this file photo taken on March 06, 2019 Ukrainian comic actor, showman and then presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky takes part in the shooting of the television series “Servant of the People” where he plays the role of the President of Ukraine in Kiev. Ukraine’s parliament voted on May 16, 2019, to hold the inauguration of the...
Inequality Tops Agenda As Lithuanians Elect New President
Lithuanian presidential candidate, Member of the Parliament Ingrida Simonyte, casts her vote during the first round of the presidential election in Vilnius on May 12, 2019. Petras Malukas / AFP Lithuanians were choosing a new president on Sunday in a close race dominated by concerns over poverty and income inequality in the Baltic state that...
Three Dead, 14 Missing In Ukraine Mine Blast
Ukraine on the Map Three people have died and 14 are missing following a coal mine blast in a separatist eastern region of Ukraine, news agencies reported Friday. The gas blast ripped through the mine in Yurievka village in the self-proclaimed republic of Lugansk, which broke away from Kiev in 2014 and is run by Moscow-backed rebels. “At the...
US Bars Chechnya PM Over Alleged Human Rights Violations
The United States said Thursday it would bar the entry of Chechnya’s prime minister for allegedly orchestrating human rights violations in the Russian republic. Under a US law that requires action against foreign officials over human rights concerns, the United States announced that Chairman Muslim Khuchiyev and his immediate family will be...
Merkel Pledges Support To Ukraine After Zelensky Win
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel JOHN THYS / AFP German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday congratulated comedian Volodymyr Zelensky on his landslide victory in Ukraine’s presidential election, saying she hopes the vote will help stabilise the troubled country. “I congratulate you on your election,” Merkel said. “The stabilisation...
Three Dead In Small Plane Crash: German Police
The burned out remains of a small plane lie on an asparagus field after it crashed in Erzhausen near Darmstadt, Germany on March 31, 2019. Boris Roessler / dpa / AFP A small plane crashed in western Germany Sunday killing the pilot and two passengers believed to be Russian, police said, as a Russian airline identified one of the victims as its...
Ukraine Police Seizes $60m Worth Of Heroin, Says ‘Never Seen So Much’
People walk in front of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev on March 31, 2019, during Ukraine’s presidential election.Sergei GAPON / AFP Ukraine police seized heroin worth about $60 million, over half a tonne of the powder, in raids in the country’s centre and west, officials said Sunday, describing it as the biggest haul they had ever seen....
