Section: South China Morning Post (China)
Ukraine arrest Frenchman who plotted terrorist attacks on Euro 2016 as anti-migration protest
Ukraine’s intelligence agency has thwarted a plot to attack the European Championship soccer tournament in France by arresting a heavily-armed Frenchman who wanted to cross into the European Union, officials said on Monday. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Ukraine arrest Frenchman plotting terrorist attacks on Euro 2016
Ukraine’s intelligence agency SBU said on Monday that it had thwarted a plot to attack soccer’s European Championships in France by arresting a Frenchman who wanted to cross from Ukraine into the European Union armed to the teeth. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Seventeen die in blaze at Ukraine home for the elderly
Seventeen people died when a makeshift home for elderly people outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev caught fire in the early hours of Sunday, the emergencies service said. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Ukraine pilot freed and flying back home under prisoner swap deal with Russia
Ukrainian servicewoman Nadiya Savchenko was heading home on a plane from Russian captivity on Wednesday, part of an exchange for two Russians detained in Ukraine, two sources close to the swap told Reuters. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Snubbed by the West, Russia rolls out red carpet for Southeast Asian leaders
The Kremlin has seized on the visit by southeast Asian leaders for a summit as an opportunity to show Russia still has friends on the international stage, despite being cold-shouldered by the West over the conflict in Ukraine. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Ukraine’s Jamala takes home Eurovision crown with song about war
Ukraine’s Jamala struck a surprise gold in the Eurovision Song Contest 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. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Masterpieces stolen from Italian museum are recovered in Ukraine
Paintings including masterpieces by Rubens and Tintoretto that were stolen from a Verona museum last year have been found in Ukraine, Italy’s culture minister said Wednesday. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Ukraine calls on UN Security Council to shore up ceasefire
Ukraine told the UN Security Council on Thursday that a fragile ceasefire must be strengthened before progress can be achieved in political talks on solving the two-year conflict in the country’s east. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Free speech row after Ukraine strips top political talk show host of work permit
Ukraine’s most prominent political talk show host was stripped of his work permit on Tuesday in what he described as a politically-charged case. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Inside the hot zone: an enchanted forest reclaims Chernobyl, 30 years after nuclear disaster
Exactly three decades ago, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine sent a radioactive cloud across Europe. …read more Source: South China Morning...
