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Ex-Georgian leader, anti-corruption activist Saakashvili detained in Ukraine
Ukraine’s prosecutor-general says opposition figure Mikheil Saakashvili has been arrested. Yuriy Lutzenko made the announcement late Friday on his Facebook page. Saakashvili, the former president of…Click To Continue …read more Source: Daily...
Detained Mikheil Sakaashvili on ‘hunger strike’
Former president of Georgia says he has gone on hunger strike following his re-arrest in Ukraine’s capital. …read more Source: AL...
Ex-Georgian president Saakashvili on hunger strike
Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili went on a hunger strike to protest his arrest in Ukraine on charges of trying to stage a coup sponsored by Russia, his lawyer and supporters said on Saturday. …read more Source: Iran...
New documents show prosecutors tracking Manafort’s edits
Prosecutors for special counsel Robert Mueller are revealing they know every word Paul Manafort changed in an opinion piece about his involvement in Ukrainian politics. …read more Source: The Daily...
New documents show prosecutors tracking Manafort’s edits
Prosecutors for special counsel Robert Mueller are revealing they know every word Paul Manafort changed in an opinion piece about his involvement in Ukrainian politics. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine president denies hampering anti-graft efforts
VILNIUS/KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko denied on Friday interfering with the work of law enforcement bodies investigating corruption and he urged such agencies to refrain from playing politics. Ukrainian authorities this week have faced accusations of deliberately sabotaging anti-corruption reforms, which are a key condition for...
Protests in Kiev continue as Saakashvili remains defiant
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has ignored the Ukrainian prosecutors’ order that he must hand himself to the authorities. …read more Source:...
Protests in Kiev continue as Saakashvili remains defiant
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has ignored the Ukrainian prosecutors’ order that he must hand himself to the authorities. …read more Source:...
MPs Urge UK Government to ‘Put a Cost’ on Israel Violations of International Law
MPs urged the UK government to “put a cost” on Israeli violations of international law in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) during a debate on home demolitions yesterday. The debate, which officially addressed “the effect of Israeli demolitions on Palestinian communities”, saw cross-party criticism of Israeli actions in the oPt, and...
Ukraine under pressure over corruption
Kiev: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is facing mounting pressure from the West for his failure to fight high-level corruption that helped drive pro-EU protests and topple a Russian-backed government in 2014. The fear in Brussels and Washington is that Kiev will follow the failed course of a similar revolution in 2004-2005 and dissolve into...
