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Nobel laureates join petition for EU to secure Ukraine pilot’s release
KIEV: Three Nobel Prize laureates were among thousands of people who signed a petition urging European leaders to secure the release of a hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot from a Russian jail. The 34-year-old Nadiya Savchenko is standing trial for alleged involvement in the death of two Russian journalists in war-torn Ukraine. She faces up to 23...
Ukrainians attack Russia embassy, demand pilot’s release
KIEV, Ukraine – Angry protesters threw stones and eggs at the Russian embassy in Kiev on Sunday, March 6, breaking several of its windows after smashing cars and burning a Russian flag, as Ukrainians’ anger boiled over at Moscow’s refusal to free … …read more Source:...
Russian embassy in Kiev protests car damage; Ukrainians demand pilot’s release
Russia’s embassy in Kiev sent a note of protest to Ukraine’s foreign ministry on Sunday about attacks on the embassy’s cars, the RIA news agency quoted embassy spokesman Oleg Grishin as saying. …read more Source: GMA News...
Fukushima ‘dark tourism’ aids remembrance, healing
NAMIE: Shinichi Niitsuma enthusiastically shows visitors the attractions of the small town of Namie: its tsunami-hit coastline, abandoned houses and hills overlooking the radiation-infested reactors of the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant. Five years after the nuclear disaster emptied much of Japan’s northeastern coast, tourism is giving...
Malaysia Airlines out of danger 2 years after MH370 disaster
FILE – In this Feb. 29, 2016 file photo, a Malaysia man is silhouetted as a Malaysia Airlines plane prepares for take off at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Speang, Malaysia.Malaysia Airlines is out of intensive care after it was hit by twin disasters in 2014, starting with the disappearance of Flight 370. The airline’s new chief...
How China is transforming military in air, at sea
Chinese 155mm self-propelled howitzers take part in a parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender during World War II held in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, September 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Even though China said its military is growing at a relatively modest pace of about 7 percent this year, it is clear...
Whiz kid was really 23-year-old Ukrainian, officials say
Honor student Asher Potts was well into his senior year in high school when police got a tip that the earnest teenager who had so impressed community leaders for nearly four years was not the person he claimed to be. The post Whiz kid was really 23-year-old Ukrainian, officials say appeared first on Inquirer News. …read more Source: The...
Doubts over planned polls in restive east Ukraine
PARIS: Crucial elections should be held in eastern Ukraine by the end of July, the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France agreed, but questions remain over Kiev and Moscow’s ability to seal the deal. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said that the Paris meeting was a “step forward” for the restive region, but his...
Kiev, Moscow agree to hold vote in east Ukraine by end July – French FM
PARIS, France – The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France agreed Thursday, March 3 that elections should be held in eastern Ukraine by the end of July, France’s Jean-Marc Ayrault said. “We underlined the importance of adopting an electoral law to hold local elections by the end of the first half of …...
Russia and Ukraine urged to live up to 2015 peace agreement
UNITED NATIONS — The European security organization expressed deep concern at continuing cease-fire violations in eastern Ukraine on Monday and urged the Russian and Ukrainian governments to live up to their commitments in the peace agreement they signed a year ago. Addressing the UN Security Council as the current chair of the Organization for...
