Section: theSun (Malaysia)
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...
Nato fetes 70 years, but Trump not partying
WASHINGTON: Seventy years after it was formed to counter the Soviet Union, Russia has returned to the top of the agenda for Nato. But the alliance faces another, more unlikely problem — criticism from the US president.The 29-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization is celebrating its 70th anniversary with talks among foreign ministers Wednesday...
Comedian ahead as Ukraine presidential campaign enters final days
KIEV: A comedian whose political experience is limited to playing the president in a TV show 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...
Lithuania convicts Soviet-era officials of 1991 ‘war crimes’
VILNIUS: A Lithuanian court on Wednesday convicted a former Soviet defence minister and dozens of other Russian citizens in absentia of war crimes over Moscow’s deadly 1991 crackdown on the Baltic state’s independence movement.Ex-minister Dmitry Yazov, now 94, was sentenced to 10 years in prison over the assault, which killed 14...
Mueller submits Trump-Russia inquiry report to US attorney general
WASHINGTON: Special Counsel Robert Mueller yesterday handed in a long-awaited report on his investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election and any potential wrongdoing by US President Donald Trump, setting off a clamour from lawmakers in both parties for the document’s release.After weeks of intense speculation...
Ukraine seizes US$51m worth of cocaine in cargo ship
KIEV: Ukraine’s SBU security service on Thursday seized around US$51 million worth of cocaine in a South American cargo ship that docked in the Black Sea port of Odessa.The SBU said it found over 250kg of the drug hidden in “containers with bananas” during an inspection.“A rapid analysis identified the packaged power as cocaine,“ the SBU...
Ukraine measles outbreak kills 11, infects 30,000
KIEV: Eleven people have died and more than 30,000 have been infected this year in a major outbreak of measles in Ukraine, the European country worst hit by the disease, Kiev said Monday.The latest victim was a nine-year-old girl who died from complications Saturday after contracting the highly infectious disease, the health ministry said.Some...
Venezuelan ‘cyber-attack’ possible but unlikely, experts say
CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government has accused the US of “cyber sabotage” to knock out the country’s central hydroelectric complex and leave the nation largely without electricity since Thursday afternoon.Experts say it’s possible, but a simple breakdown of ageing equipment is much more likely.Venezuela...
Trump ex-campaign chief back in court for further sentencing
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s former campaign chief Paul Manafort, sentenced to 47 months in prison last week for tax and bank fraud, returns to court on Wednesday to find out whether he faces even more jail time.Manafort, who turns 70 on April 1, is to appear before Judge Amy Berman Jackson in a federal court in Washington for...
Former Trump campaign chief to be sentenced, could face life in prison
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s former campaign chief Paul Manafort faces potentially spending the rest of his life behind bars when a judge sentences him on Thursday for tax crimes and bank fraud.Manafort, who turns 70 in April, was convicted by a Virginia jury in August of five counts of filing false income tax returns, two counts...
