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Ukraine, Belarus leaders visit Chernobyl to mark anniversary
KIEV: The presidents of Ukraine and Belarus toured Wednesday the site of the Chernobyl plant to mark 31 years since the world’s worst civil nuclear accident spewed radiation across Europe. The plant in the north of former Soviet Ukraine exploded in 1986 after a safety test went horribly wrong at 1:23am on April 26. Around 30 people were...
China launches first domestically-built aircraft carrier
BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Wednesday launched its first domestically built aircraft carrier, which will join an existing one bought second-hand from the Ukraine, amid rising tensions over North Korea and worries about Beijing’s assertiveness in the South China Sea. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine cuts power supply to separatist region, blaming unpaid debts
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s national power company said on Tuesday it had cut electricity to parts of an eastern region controlled by pro-Russian separatists because they had run up large debts. …read more Source: The...
American OSCE monitor killed in rebel east Ukraine
KIEV: An American monitor with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe died after a mission patrol vehicle hit a landmine in the Russian-backed separatist east, eliciting sharp words towards Moscow from US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday. It marked the first loss for the security body’s Special Monitoring Mission...
OSCE staff member killed by landmine in east Ukraine
KIEV: The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Sunday one of its staff was killed after an observer mission patrol vehicle hit a landmine in rebel-held east Ukraine. It marked the first loss for the security body’s Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine since Europe’s only war began more than three years ago....
Member of security watchdog OSCE killed in Ukraine
(Reuters) – One member of European security watchdog OSCE’s monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine was killed and another injured after their vehicle drove over a mine near Luhansk. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine not worried relations with U.S. fraying in Trump era
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has strongly signalled it will continue to support Ukraine, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk said on Friday, adding that the war-torn country had a “good, pragmatic” relationship with Washington. …read more Source: The...
‘Neo-Nazi’ kills 2 at FSB office in eastern Russia
MOSCOW: A gunman with alleged links to a neo-Nazi group Friday shot dead an employee of Russia’s FSB security service and a civilian at the agency’s office in a far eastern city, officials said. The FSB said the attacker – named as local resident A.V. Konev, born in 1999 – opened fire immediately after entering the reception of an FSB...
Ukraine makes two high-profile detentions in corruption case
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian authorities detained a former lawmaker and the deputy chief of state energy firm Naftogaz in a case related to the embezzlement of $17.3 million through selling uranium concentrate at inflated prices, prosecutors and the anti-corruption bureau said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
U.N. court orders Russia to halt discrimination of Crimean Tartar minority
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The highest United Nations court on Wednesday ordered Russia to halt discrimination of ethnic Crimean Tartars, handing down an interim ruling in a dispute in which Ukraine is seeking to stop what is says is Moscow’s support for separatists. …read more Source: The...
