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The world’s tallest people are from these countries
Dutch men and Latvian women are the planet’s tallest people but Iranian men and South Korean women have grown the fastest in the last century, according to the largest ever study of height around the world. Americans, once among the world’s tallest people, have dropped from having men and women at 3rd and 4th in the global height...
Three Ukrainian soldiers killed in separatist east
KIEV: Three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and another three wounded in fresh clashes between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in the country’s separatist east, the military said on Monday. Two servicemen were killed by mortar fire near Avdiivka, an industrial hub 10 kilometres north of the rebels’ de-facto capital...
Russian pranksters call heads of WADA, U.S. anti-doping agency
Russian media published on Friday calls by two comedians to the heads of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) pretending to be Ukrainian Sports Minister Ihor Zhdanov. Pranskters Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov separately called WADA President Craig Reedie and USADA chief executive Travis Tygart,...
Hundreds pay homage to slain Ukraine reporter
KIEV: Hundreds of mourners shed tears and laid flowers on Friday at the open casket of a top reporter whose targeted car-bomb slaying sent shock waves through Ukraine’s tight-knit journalistic community. Wednesday’s death of Pavel Sheremet — a 44-year-old columnist for Ukrainska Pravda — came 16 years after the beheading...
Day after shutdown, KickassTorrents up and running again
Not even 24 hours had passed since US authorities had shut down one of the largest torrent websites — Kickasstorrents or KAT — and arrested its owner Artem Vaulin from Poland, and KAT was already making a comeback. IsoHunt, another major torrent website, has restored a mirror of the original KAT website with identical design and a somewhat...
Owner of world’s biggest piracy site Kickass Torrents Artem Vaulin arrested in US
A Ukrainian alleged to be the ringleader of the world’s biggest online piracy site, Kickass Torrents, was hit with US criminal charges Wednesday, accused of distributing over $1 billion worth of illegally copied films, music and other content. The Justice Department unveiled a criminal complaint against Artem Vaulin, 30, of Kharkiv,...
Seven Ukraine troops die in worst clashes in two months
KIEV: Ukraine said on Tuesday seven of its soldiers had been killed and 14 wounded in “very heated” fighting that marked the bloodiest clashes with pro-Russian separatists in two months. The announcement — the highest daily death toll since Ukraine reported seven of its soldiers dying on May 24 — follows a flurry of talks...
Ukrainians take to Facebook to break taboo over rape
It was yet another online discussion blaming a rape victim for provoking her attacker that prompted Ukrainian activist Anastasiya Melnychenko’s campaign to shatter taboos in her homeland and neighbouring Russia. In response Melnychenko typed out an unflinching account of the string of sexual assaults she has suffered throughout her life...
Two years on, Ukraine villagers mourn at MH17 crash site
PETROPAVLIVKA, Ukraine: Dozens of villagers carried flowers and lit candles on Sunday at the site in rebel-held eastern Ukraine where flight MH17 crashed two years ago, killing all 298 people on board. About 60 people joined the vigil on the small square of the village of Petropavlivka where some of the remains and personal belongings of...
At least 84 dead in ?terrorist? Nice truck rampage
NICE: A Tunisian-born man zigzagged a truck through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in the French city of Nice, killing at least 84 and injuring dozens of children in what President Francois Hollande on Friday called a “terrorist” attack. One witness said a motorcyclist tried to stop the rampage by drawing level with the truck and...
