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Chewbacca campaigns for Darth Vader in Ukraine, gets handcuffed by police
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Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Oct. 26, 2015
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Ukraine to Afghanistan to China and the Americas. The Week That WasWhereas Chinese President Xi Jingping’s visit to the United States...
Ukraine polls marred by cancelled vote
KIEV: Western-backed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko s fragile ruling coalition faced a major survival test on Sunday in local elections that wer …read more Source: The News...
Eurosceptics claim victory in landmark Poland polls
The leader of Poland’s main opposition party Law and Justice Jaroslaw Kaczynski addresses after the exit poll results are announced in Warsaw.—Reuters photo Poland’s eurosceptic Law and Justice party (PiS) claimed victory on Sunday in a watershed election that risks putting the ex-communist state on a collision course with key...
Ukraine kicks off local elections
Millions of Ukrainians on Sunday began to cast their ballots in the country’s local elections to elect mayors and members of regional councils. …read more Source: China Internet Information...
Russian PM slams Ukraine’s flight ban
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday slammed the Unkrainian government’s decision to ban Russian airlines from flying to Ukraine, describing it as an action of shooting itself in the foot. …read more Source: China Internet Information...
Ukraine rebel group bans MSF, claiming medical aid body was engaging in espionage
Pro-Russian insurgents in Ukraine’s eastern separatist Donetsk region said Sunday they had banned Doctors Without Borders (MSF) from working in the area for alleged espionage activity and other crimes. Medics with the Nobel Peace Prize winning organization were kicked out of the war-torn province along with nine other Western aid groups for...
Ukraine holds local elections that test oligarchs’ reach
A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, October 25, 2015. Photo: AP MARIUPOL: Ukrainians are voting in local elections that are seen as a test of the strength of President Petro Poroshenko’s government and of the oligarchs accustomed to running regions of the country. The situation in Mariupol, a major port...
Local elections cancelled in key Ukraine city, parties trade accusations of foul play
Local elections in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol were called off on Sunday, prompting the ruling party of President Petro Poroshenko and the pro-Russian Opposition Party to blame each other for alleged irregularities in the vote. …read more Source: Channel...
Bangladeshis, Rohingyas account for most of West Bengal foreign prisoners
DHAKA : Almost half of the foreign prisoners in India are lodged in different jails of West Bengal and most of them are Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims, reports UNB. Quoting recent data released by the National Crime Records Bureau, The Times of India on Sunday reported that nearly 47 percent of the foreign prisoners are lodged in Bengal jails...
