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Comedian set to win first round of Ukraine presidential vote
51 min 54 sec agoKIEV – Ukrainians exhausted by five years of war and decades of official corruption l …read more Source:...
Comedian set to win first round of Ukraine presidential vote
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainians exhausted by five years of war and decades of official corruption look set to send a comedian with no political experience into a second round run-off against the incumbent when they vote in Sunday’s presidential election. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine's action man president faces voters' judgment
KIEV (Reuters) – The bodyguards were nervous, fingers poised over the triggers of their automatic weapons, as Ukraine’s president inspected the site of a rocket attack from separatist territory which had killed 10 people that day, one of many visits to the front line. …read more Source: The...
Australia, Netherlands start talks with Russia over MH17 downing
People gather near a monument for the victims of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 plane crash to mark the fourth anniversary of the accident near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo) in Donetsk Region, Ukraine. (Reuters pic)SYDNEY: Dutch and Australian government officials have met their Russian counterparts to discuss who is responsible for the...
Top US diplomat saddened by global Golan reactions
WASHINGTON (AA): U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday he is “saddened, but not surprised” by the world’s refusal to follow Washington’s lead in recognizing the occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory. “We are simply recognizing facts on the ground,” Pompeo said one day after U.S. Presidential Donald Trump signed a...
Ukraine’s integration into West said dashed by war and corruption
Five years into Ukraine’s conflict with Russia, Moscow seems to have Ukraine pinned against the ropes. Ukraine’s ambition of joining the European Union and NATO … …read more Source: The Japan...
Bundestag deputy: the sovereign right of each state to decide when it is ready to go to rapprochement with the EU
ArmInfo.A positive trend was recorded in the Armenia-EU and Armenia-Germany relations. On March 26 in Yerevan at the conference “Armenia on the way to Europe”, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the activities of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Armenia, Bundestag deputy Albert Weiler said. He noted that after last May processes in...
Facebook blocks more accounts over influence campaigns
Facebook shuts down fake accounts bent on influencing political sentiment. (Bloomberg pic)WASHINGTON: Facebook said Tuesday it shut down more than 2,600 fake accounts linked to Iran, Russia, Macedonia and Kosovo and aiming to influence political sentiment in various parts of the world. It was the latest effort by the leading social network to...
Facebook blocks more accounts over influence campaigns
Facebook on Tuesday said it shut down more than 2,600 fake accounts linked to Iran, Russia, Macedonia and Kosovo aiming to influence political sentiment in various parts of the world. It was the latest effort by the leading social network to shut down “inauthentic” accounts on Facebook and Instagram seeking to influence politics in the US and...
Imam who urged Czech Muslims to take up arms fired
PRAGUE: The head of Prague’s Muslim community who urged Czech Muslims to acquire arms after the Christchurch attack has been sacked, the Czech Muslim Communities Centre said Monday. “Our meeting on March 24… decided unequivocally to cancel Mr Leonid Kushnarenko’s membership of the Czech Muslim Communities Centre with an...
