Section: Africa&ME
College students suspended in Iran for holding memorial for Ukrainian plane victims
Over a dozen university students were suspended in northwest Iran as punishment for holding a memorial service for the victims of a Ukrainian civilian airliner downed by Iranian missiles over Tehran in January.The University of Mohaghegh Ardebili said on Wednesday it suspended 15 students for organising a candlelight vigil to honor the victims,...
Turkey, Ukraine flights to resume in July
The president of Ukraine said on June 24 that flights between Turkey and Ukraine would resume in July. …read more Source:: Hurriyet Daily...
French, Russian Leaders to Hold Video Summit Friday
French President Emmanuel Macron will hold a videoconference with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday, with the coronavirus pandemic and the crises in Libya and Syria on their agenda, France announced Wednesday. The situations in Iran and Ukraine will also be raised, as well as “cooperation in the fields of health and the environment”...
World’s greatest chess player defeats Russian president Putin’s censor
The legal dispute stems from 2014 after Russia illegally annexed Crimea in Ukraine. …read more Source:: The Jerusalem...
Father of slain Iranian protester blasts Soleimani after attending memorial
The father of an Iranian protester killed by security forces in Iran said Monday he was forced to attend a memorial of slain military commander Qassem Soleimani, who he considers responsible for the killing of thousands of women and children.Manouchehr Bakhtiari’s remarks come after pictures and videos of him holding a Soleimani poster went...
Iran downed plane: Ukraine not satisfied with compensation, Iran to send black box
After Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in February that Kiev was not satisfied with the size of compensation Iran had offered after the Islamic Republic downed a Ukrainian airliner, Tehran will send the black boxes from the downed plane to France for analysis.Iran :Grieving nations demand Iran compensate relatives of plane attack...
Iran to send black boxes from downed Ukrainian airliner to France
Iran will send the black boxes from a downed Ukrainian airliner to France, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday, according to the official IRNA news agency. Iran shot down the Ukraine International Airlines flight on January 8 with a ground-to-air missile, killing 176 people, in what Tehran later acknowledged as a...
Zarif: Iran to Send Ukrainian Plane’s Recorder to France in Coming Days
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran will send the black box of a Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near Tehran in January to France for analysis in coming days. In a telephone conversation with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada Francois-Philippe Champagne on Monday, Foreign Minister Zarif informed him that Iran will...
Ukraine urges expansion of its Iranian parliamentary ties
…read more Source:: Mehr News...
Grave of hassidic master found in Ukraine in ‘coronavirus’ renovations
Since his arrival to Berditchev in 2002, Chabad emissary Rabbi Moshe Thaler has worked to restore the cemetery. …read more Source:: The Jerusalem...
