Section: The Star (Malaysia)
Coronavirus hits headquarters of Ukraine church that opposed social distancing
KIEV (Reuters) – The coronavirus has infected 26 people at the thousand-year-old headquarters of Ukraine’s Russian-backed Orthodox Christian denomination, which had urged worshippers to defy lockdown orders, according to figures released by the mayor of Kiev. …read more Source:: The...
Ukraine fights fires in Chernobyl zone, says no radiation jump
KIEV (Reuters) – Local authorities in Ukraine have dismissed residents’ concerns that forest fires near the Chernobyl nuclear power station have led to unsafe radiation levels. …read more Source:: The...
Ukrainian doctors fly to Italy to help combat coronavirus
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine, which expects a sharp rise of coronavirus cases in the coming weeks, sent doctors to disease-hit Italy on Saturday to assist their Italian colleagues and to gain field experience. …read more Source:: The...
Ukraine tightens restrictions to fight coronavirus spread
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s government on Friday imposed a series of new restrictions designed to prevent the coronavirus outbreak spreading widely but said it hoped to soften the measures again in late April. …read more Source:: The...
'Dear Elon': Ukraine takes up Tesla's ventilator offer via Twitter
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine has taken to Twitter to ask Elon Musk to send it ventilators after the billionaire chief executive of Tesla Inc offered to ship them across the world during the coronavirus pandemic. …read more Source:: The...
Red Cross to deliver supplies for COVID-19 patients in separatist eastern Ukraine
GENEVA (Reuters) – A planeload of medical supplies for COVID-19 patients and other relief goods has arrived in Ukraine to help people enduring a six-year-old conflict in the country’s east, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday. …read more Source:: The...
Ukraine parliament to vote on new ministers in special session
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament will hold a special session on Monday to vote on plans to replace the country’s finance and health ministers, who have both been in office for less than a month. …read more Source:: The...
#NoDefault: Ukraine leader's party faces crunch vote for IMF loans
KIEV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is the first Ukrainian leader in history to command a single party majority in parliament but its strength will be tested next week as he urges lawmakers to pass reform bills needed to unlock a $8 billion aid package. …read more Source:: The...
Thousands of Ukrainians waiting at Polish border to get home
WARSAW (Reuters) – Thousands of Ukrainians queued in long lines on Friday at the last three border crossings with Poland that remain open to get to their homeland before Ukraine closes its borders due to the coronavirus pandemic. …read more Source:: The...
Kiev monastery fights coronavirus with homemade hand sanitizer
KIEV (Reuters) – The black-robed Orthodox clerics sit in a line under an icon in one of Ukraine’s oldest monasteries, mixing up batches of hand sanitizer to distribute to the poor and the needy. …read more Source:: The...
