Section: Africa&ME
Ukraine’s Lomachenko knocks out Martinez for WBO title
Vasyl Lomachenko turned a Puerto Rican celebration into a Ukrainian holiday with a brutal knockout of Rocky Martinez to take the WBO junior lightweight title Saturday night. …read more Source: The...
‘Remain’: Yes to change, but from the inside
By Steve Cawood “An analogue union in a digital age” was the headline under which Brian Lait set out his arguments for a so-called Brexit (Sunday Mail, March 20) and he has since gone on to write further columns. He began in intellectual, even scholarly, style – but in the end the arguments are just simplistic generalisations. That’s not a...
Ukraine speed to test new-look Germany defense
EVIAN, France — Germany’s defense will be put to the test in its opening Euro 2016 group match against Ukraine in Lille Sunday with major questions still to be answered about the world champion’s new-look rearguard. Coach Joachim Loew’s team will be without key central defender Mats Hummels, still recovering from a muscle...
Ukraine speed to test new-look Germany defence
EVIAN/NICE, France — Germany’s defence will be put to the test in their opening Euro 2016 group match against Ukraine in Lille on Sunday with major questions still to be answered about the world champions’ new-look rearguard. Coach Joachim Loew’s team will be without key central defender Mats Hummels, still recovering from a...
Crimea unveils gun-toting statue to celebrate Russian annexation
Simferopol: The authorities in Crimea on Saturday unveiled a bronze statue of a heavily armed Russian soldier to celebrate the peninsula’s 2014 annexation from Ukraine. The slightly larger-than-life sculpture in Crimea’s main city of Simferopol shows a soldier carrying a Kalashnikov and wearing rounds of ammunition on his chest. A...
US-directed strategy against Russia being adopted in Ukraine: Pundit
An analyst says the appointment of the former NATO secretary general as adviser to Ukraine’s president is part of a US-directed strategy against Russia. …read more Source:...
Kiev says 2 servicemen killed in Donbass
Ukraine says two of its servicemen have been killed in a military operation in the conflict-stricken region of Donbass in the east of the country. …read more Source: Iran...
Kiev says 2 servicemen killed in Donbass
Ukraine says two of its servicemen have been killed in the conflict-stricken region of Donbass. …read more Source:...
Crimea unveils gun-toting statue to celebrate Russian annexation
The authorities in Crimea on Saturday unveiled a bronze statue of a heavily armed Russian soldier to celebrate the peninsula’s 2014 annexation from Ukraine. …read more Source: The Daily...
Beer, broken glass and beatings; Euro 2016 fans revive old habits
Bottles and other objects were hurled at French police in Marseille who responded with tear gas/AFPMARSEILLE, Jun 11 – Two nights of tear gas, broken bottles and beer-bloated football fans on Marseille’s Vieux Port came as a stark reminder to European Championship organisers that old habits die hard. France has been on the lookout for...
