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News24.com | Five key questions about the MH17 trial
Four suspects are to go on trial in the Netherlands next week accused of playing a role in downing Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine on July 17, 2014. …read more Source::...
Russia Jails Jehovah’s Witness For Extremism
Woman display Jehovah’s Witness literature along a street on February 26, 2020 in Orangeburg, South Carolina. SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP A court in Russia-annexed Crimea sentenced a Jehovah’s Witness to six years in prison for extremism, the group said Thursday as Moscow pursues a crackdown on the US-based...
Crimean court jails Jehovah’s Witness for religious extremism
Moscow – A court in Russian-controlled Crimea jailed a Jehovah’s Witness for six years on Thursday after finding him guilty of organising the activities of a banned extremist organisation, part of a crackdown rights activists say violates religious freedom. The court in the Crimean town of Dzhankoi explained in a statement why it had...
5 talking points from Super Eagles’ 24-man squad for AFCON 2021 qualifiers against Sierra Leone
Gernot Rohr calls up 24 players for the games against Sierra Leone. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Wednesday, March 4, 2020, released Gernot Rohr’s Super Eagles squad list for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) …read more Source:: Pulse...
News24.com | Ukraine PM denies resigning but says reshuffle planned
Ukraine’s youngest-ever prime minister has denied he had offered his resignation, as the government braces for potential dismissals over the ailing economy. …read more Source::...
Trump Campaign Sues New York Times
US President Donald Trump talks to the media on the South Lawn upon his return to the White House by Marine One, in Washington, DC, November 3, 2019, after returning from a trip to New York. Olivier Douliery / AFP US President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign on Wednesday filed suit against The New York Times over an OpEd article about...
Ukraine destroys 37,000 bottles of vodka
The contents of several bottles were poured into plastic tanks or blue dye was added, to rule out any illegal re-sale of the beverage. …read more Source:: Standard...
China reports fall in coronavirus cases
Shanghai/Beijing – China reported a decrease in the number of new deaths and new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, while its central bank predicted a limited short-term economic impact and said the country was confident in winning the fight against the epidemic. Mainland China had 397 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections on...
News24.com | Ukraine minister to join China evacuees in bid to ease virus panic
Ukraine’s health minister has volunteered to spend two weeks in quarantine as authorities looked to ease panic after protesters attacked buses carrying evacuees from coronavirus-hit China. …read more Source::...
Vladimir Putin sacks prominent Ukraine hardliner
Moscow – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday dismissed a veteran, once close adviser who until recently managed Moscow’s relations with war-torn Ukraine. Putin fired Vladislav Surkov, seen as a hardliner by many in Kiev, in a terse two-line statement on the Kremlin website. His sacking, which coincided with a flare-up in...
