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NATO chief to meet Trump, alliance critic, on anniversary
WASHINGTON: Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (pix) was due to meet President Donald Trump Tuesday ahead of celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the alliance, a frequent target of the US leader.The White House visit comes before two days of talks in Washington among the 29 foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,...
Nato chief to meet Trump, alliance critic, on anniversary
Stoltenberg will visit the White House. (AFP picture)WASHINGTON: Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was due to meet President Donald Trump Tuesday ahead of celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the alliance, a frequent target of the US leader. The White House visit comes before two days of talks in Washington among the 29 foreign...
Comedian faces scrutiny over oligarch ties in Ukraine presidential race
KIEV (Reuters) – Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy is leading the race to become Ukraine’s next president thanks to an insurgent campaign that rails against corrupt politicians influenced by rich oligarchs. …read more Source: The...
Vote count confirms comic's lead in Ukraine elections
KIEV (Reuters) – A comedian with no political experience raced ahead in the first round of Ukraine’s presidential election on Sunday, offering a fresh face to voters fed up with entrenched corruption in a country on the frontline of the West’s standoff with Russia. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine's Poroshenko says election was free, met global standards
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko said the first round of Sunday’s presidential election was free and met international standards. …read more Source: The...
Comedian Zelenskiy takes lead in Ukraine presidential election – exit poll
KIEV (Reuters) – The first exit poll in Ukraine’s presidential election showed comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy winning the first round with 30.4 percent of the vote, and incumbent President Petro Poroshenko coming in second place with 17.8 percent. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine police seize US$60m of heroin, say ‘never seen so much’
KIEV: Ukraine police seized heroin worth about US$60 million — over half a tonne of the powder — in raids in the country’s centre and west, officials said Sunday, describing it as the biggest haul they had ever seen.Chief of the national police Sergiy Knyazev announced on Facebook two raids in Kiev region yielding “600kg (1,322 pounds) of...
Comic likely to top first round as Ukraine chooses president
Ukranian actor Volodymyr Zelensky may win in the polls. (AFP pic)KIEV: “I’m voting for anyone apart from Poroshenko (Petro). I don’t believe him, he cheated us,” said 40-year-old housewife Olga, who had come to a polling station in the Western city of Lviv with her young daughter. “I’m just going to go into the booth and decide...
Comic leads as Ukraine votes for president
KIEV: A comedian whose political experience is limited to playing the president on TV is likely to top the first round of voting when Ukrainians go to the polls on Sunday.Actor Volodymyr Zelensky’s bid started as a long shot but he has leapfrogged establishment politicians amid public frustration over corruption and stagnating living...
Comedian in front as curtain rises on Ukrainian presidential election
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainians will cast their ballots in a presidential election on Sunday in which a comedian with no political experience and who plays a fictional president in a popular TV series is tipped to win the first round. …read more Source: The...
