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Party of Ukraine's new president leads parliamentary vote race
KIEV (Reuters) – The party of Ukraine’s new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has strengthened its lead ahead of a parliamentary election due on July 21, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine president appoints former minister Abromavicius to defence job
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday appointed former economy minister Aivaras Abromavicius to the supervisory board of the state defence conglomerate Ukroboronprom, a decree published on his website said. …read more Source: The...
Cruise ship captain bailed in Hungary after fatal accident
Twenty-six Koreans and two Hungarian crew died after the Mermaid tourist boat capsized and sank in seconds – the worst disaster on the river in half a century. (AFP pic)BUDAPEST: The captain of a cruise liner was released on bail on Wednesday, two weeks after his vessel was involved in a collision with a tourist boat that sank on the River Danube...
More bodies found as Hungary lifts sunken tourist boat from river
Police at the site were removing bodies from the vessel. (AFP pic)BUDAPEST: Hungarian police recovered more bodies on Tuesday after raising a sightseeing boat that sank in the river Danube in Budapest last month, an accident that has claimed at least 24 lives. Police removed four bodies from the Mermaid tourist boat. Another four people are still...
Ukraine President asks MPs to sack Prosecutor, appoint foreign minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has asked parliament to sack General Prosecutor Yuri Lutshenko and to appoint a former Ukrainian envoy to NATO, Vadym Prystaiko, as new foreign minister, a presidential official said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
Six dead in fire at Ukraine psychiatric hospital
ODESSA, UKRAINE: Six people died when fire swept through a psychiatric hospital for war veterans in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, authorities said Tuesday.The fire erupted late Monday evening in the one-storey building, Ukraine’s emergency services said in a statement.“Six people died and four have been hospitalised,“ the statement said....
Six die in fire in Ukraine psychiatric clinic
KIEV (Reuters) – Six people died in a fire in a municipal psychiatric clinic in the Ukrainian southern port of Odessa, Ukraine’s emergencies service said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
Party of Ukraine's new president leads parliamentary vote race
KIEV (Reuters) – The party of Ukraine’s new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has kept a strong lead ahead of a parliamentary election due on July 21, an opinion poll showed on Monday. …read more Source: The...
Moldova acting president Pavel Filip calls for snap election
Moldova’s Pavel Filip will be acting president after the suspension of pro-Russia president Igor Dodon. (AFP pic)CHISINAU: Moldova’s acting president Pavel Filip on Sunday dissolved parliament and called snap elections, as a political crisis rocks the ex-Soviet country. Filip signed a decree dissolving parliament and calling snap...
Putin to Ukraine's new president: Make up your mind on Russia policy
ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Ukraine’s new President, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, needed to make up his mind when it came to his policy on Russia, noting that he continued to call Moscow an enemy. …read more Source: The...
