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Ukraine to suspend all passenger flights from March 17 – Interfax Ukraine
Kiev – Ukraine will suspend all passenger flights from March 17, Interfax Ukraine quoted Parliament Speaker Dmytro Razumkov as saying on Friday evening. Ukraine earlier announced that it was banning foreign nationals from entering the country to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The country recorded its first death from the virus on...
News24.com | Ukraine to close schools, halt Italy flights over virus
Ukraine says it will close schools, kindergartens and universities and suspend flights to Italy as part of measures to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. …read more Source::...
Downing of MH17: Breakdown of the trial
Amsterdam – The first hearing in the criminal trial of four men accused of murder for their roles in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine is due to start in the Netherlands on Monday: WHAT HAPPENED? MH17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17 2014 over an area where Ukrainian government forces were...
MH17 trial in Netherlands to start without Russian, Ukrainian suspects
Amsterdam – Four fugitive suspects go on trial in the Netherlands on Monday charged with the murder of 298 passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 which was shot down with a Russian-made missile over eastern Ukraine in July 2014. Wreckage of the Boeing 777 fell to the ground in fields surrounding the Ukrainian village of...
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::...
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...
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::...
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...
