Section: Africa&ME
Controversial religious procession barred from entering Kiev
Authorities in Ukraine’s capital say pilgrims in a major religious procession connected with a Moscow-loyal church will be taken to their goal by bus, a compromise reached hours after participants in the procession were barred from entering Kiev on foot. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine bars major religious procession from entering Kyiv after threat of attack
A religious march had been banned from Ukraine’s capital after authorities found live grenades near the planned route. Previously, Ukrainian nationalists harassed the Orthodox worshipers, calling them “agents of Moscow.” …read more Source:...
Death and rebirth in contemporary Ukrainian journalism
Ukraine deserves to break out of its current state to resolve the protracted war in the east and pervasive corruption. …read more Source: AL...
100-year global study finds world’s tallest are Dutch, Latvians
Dutch men and Latvian women are the planet’s tallest people but Iranian men and South Korean women have grown the fastest in the last century, according to the largest ever study of height around the world. Americans, once among the world’s tallest people, have dropped from having men and women at 3rd and 4th in the global height...
Fighting continues in eastern Ukraine despite ceasefire
Violence has intensified in eastern Ukraine as more people are killed in clashes between government forces and pro-Russia militia. …read more Source:...
Six Ukrainian soldiers killed in troubled east
Six Ukrainian soldiers are killed in a fresh wave of clashes with pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Six Ukrainian soldiers killed as clashes surge
Six Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and thirteen wounded in a fresh surge of fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in the country’s war-torn east, Kiev said Sunday …read more Source: The Daily...
Six Ukrainian soldiers killed as clashes surge
The latest deaths come after the government on Tuesday reported fighting had claimed the lives of seven servicemen in the highest one-day death toll in the conflict for two months. …read more Source: World...
Journalist killed in Kiev car bombing buried in Belarus
Minsk: Thousands of mourners in Belarus on Saturday bid farewell to prominent independent journalist Pavel Sheremet, killed by a car bomb in Kiev, as he was buried back in the homeland where he clashed with the authorities. Sheremet — who was born in Minsk but took Russian citizenship — was blown up while driving near his home in the heart of the...
Journalist killed in Kyiv car bombing buried in Belarus
Prominent journalist Pavel Sheremet has been buried in his homeland of Belarus. Hundreds gathered to mourn the 44-year-old who was killed when the car he was driving exploded in Kyiv. …read more Source:...
