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Ukraine’s Jamala takes home Eurovision crown with song about war
Ukraine’s Jamala struck a surprise gold in the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday with a song “1944” about war-time deportations of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union in one of the most controversial winners in the competition’s history. In a show known down the years for its playfulness and camp, 32-year-old Jamala struck a sombre...
Eurovision winning entry: 1944, a harrowing family tale about Stalin’s deportation of Muslim Tatars
KIEV // “When strangers are coming, they come to your house, they kill you all and say, ‘we’re not guilty, not guilty’.”Those are the harrowing opening words of war-scarred Ukraine’s winning entry for the Eurovision song contest — a flamboyant and festive occasion more normally associated with laughs than...
Ukraine wins Eurovision song contest, Israel takes 14th
The 2016 Eurovision Song Contest final took place Saturday in Stockholm, Sweden. …read more Source: Arutz...
Ukraine’s Jamala wins Eurovision contest with 1944
Song by Jamala about strangers coming to “kill you all” seen as allusion Stalin’s deportation of Tartars from Crimea. …read more Source: AL...
Eurovision 2016: Israeli haircut disappoints, Ukraine backhands Russia
In the end, with all of the theatrics and corny Euro pop, it was a deeply serious and political song that won the contest. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Ukraine crowned winner of 2016 Eurovision contest
…read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Foreign Ministry: Al-Zara massacre aimed at foiling efforts to stop bloodshed
Damascus, SANA – The Foreign and Expatriates Ministry sent on Saturday two identical letters to the UN Secretary General and Head of the Security Council demanding condemnation of the terrorist massacre committed in al-Zara village in southern Hama. After infiltrating the village at dawn on Thursday while its people were sleeping, terrorist...
Ukraine blasts journalists accredited with rebels
Pro-Kiev hackers have released details of thousands of journalists who reported from war-torn territory controlled by Russian-backed separatists …read more Source: World...
White House: Biden tells Ukraine US ready to OK loan guarantee
…read more Source: The Jerusalem...
EU sanctions mooted amid DR Congo crackdown
Britain warned it may seek EU sanctions over “acts of repression” in the Democratic Republic of Congo …read more Source: Al...
