Section: Africa&ME
Zelensky defends movie post to end hostage crisis
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday defended his decision to agree to a hostage-taker’s bizarre demand that he post a movie recommendation to end a 12-hour stand-off.Zelensky described how he personally negotiated on Tuesday evening with a gunman who was holding 13 hostages on a bus in Lutsk, around 400km west of capital...
Turkey blocks Greek confinement bid in E. Mediterranean
Turkey has rejected Greek plans of expanding its continental shelf through islets in the Aegean Sea and confining Turkey to the Anatolian peninsula in the Eastern Mediterranean region, Anadolu reports. As part of the country’s hydrocarbon exploration activities, Turkey announced new seismic research activity in the Eastern Mediterranean via...
Ukraine gunman release hostages as president posts Joaquin Phoenix movie
Kryvosh held the hostages for 12 hours while negotiating with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. …read more Source:: The Jerusalem...
Hostage standoff ends after Ukrainian president endorses animal rights documentary
ll 13 people taken hostage on a bus in western Ukraine were freed unharmed on Tuesday after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy spoke by phone with the hostage-taker and agreed to his demand to endorse a 2005 animal rights documentary. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Ukraine hostage-taker surrenders, bus passengers unharmed
An “unstable” armed man who seized more than a dozen hostages on a long-distance bus in Ukraine’s western city of Lutsk was detained late on July 21 after a standoff that lasted for over 12 hours and all hostages were freed unharmed, officials said. …read more Source:: Hurriyet Daily...
Ukrainian police say all hostages on seized bus freed, armed man arrested
Ukrainian police have secured the release of all the remaining hostages who were seized on a bus in western Ukraine on Tuesday, and detained the hostage taker, police said in a statement.“The hostages have been released,” the statement said. “A man who took hostages in Lutsk today and held them on a bus has been detained.”For all the latest...
BREAKING: Ukraine Bus Hostages Freed, Gunman Arrested
An intercity bus with passengers who have been taken hostage by an armed man is seen in the city of Lutsk, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) from the capital Kiev, on July 21, 2020. YURIY DYACHYSHYN / AFP The siege of a bus with 13 passengers by an armed man on Tuesday has ended with all the hostages freed, Ukrainian police said. “The hostages are...
Coronavirus: With economy badly affected, Moscow considers military spending cuts
Russia is considering cutting spending on the military as low oil prices and the coronavirus crisis have pummeled its economy, a document published by the finance ministry shows.The ministry has proposed the government cut state spending on the military by 5 percent between 2021 and 2023. The proposal, published on Monday, also includes budget...
News24.com | Shots heard as bus passengers taken hostage in Ukraine
A man who said he was armed with weapons and explosives has seized a bus in the Ukrainian city of Lutsk and took a number of people on board hostage, police have said. …read more Source::...
Man Seizes Bus, Takes 20 Passengers Hostage in Western Ukraine
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A man who said he was armed with weapons and explosives seized control of a bus in the western Ukrainian city of Lutsk on Tuesday and took about 20 people on board hostage, police said. …read more Source:: Tasnim News...
