Section: The Straits Times (Singapore)
World’s largest aircraft brings medical assistance to Ukraine from China
April 23, 2020 6:36 PMKIEV (REUTERS) – The World’s biggest cargo plane brought more than 100 tonnes of medical equipment to Ukraine from China on Thursday (April 23), in what Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described as the biggest cargo shipment by volume in history. …read more Source:: The Straits...
Coronavirus: Ukraine declares emergency in Kiev region; PM warns of economic crisis
March 18, 2020 10:03 PMKIEV (REUTERS) – Ukraine’s government imposed a state of emergency in the region surrounding the capital Kiev on Wednesday (March 18) as Prime Minister Denys Shmygal warned of a national economic crisis due to the global fallout from the coronavirus epidemic. …read more Source:: The Straits...
Ukraine cracks down on smuggling of masks as cities announce shutdowns
March 16, 2020 8:11 PMKIEV (REUTERS) – Ukrainian cities announced shutdowns on Monday (March 16) to contain the spread of the coronavirus and the government said it had cracked down on attempts to smuggle face masks abroad after 50,000 of them alone were seized from a car on the Polish border. …read more Source:: The Straits...
Iran to let Ukraine or France analyse black boxes of downed jet
March 13, 2020 5:00 AMMONTREAL • Iran has pledged at a meeting of the United Nations’ civil aviation agency to hand over black boxes from the downed Flight 752 to Ukraine or France for analysis – a move welcomed by Canada and Ukraine. …read more Source:: The Straits...
Iran agrees to hand over downed jet’s black boxes to Ukraine
March 12, 2020 7:35 AMMONTREAL (AFP) – Iran pledged on Wednesday (March 12) at a meeting of UN civil aviation agency to hand over black boxes from downed Flight 752 to Ukraine or France for analysis – a move welcomed by Canada and Ukraine. …read more Source:: The Straits...
Dutch prosecutors accuse Russia of trying to ‘thwart’ MH17 investigation
March 10, 2020 7:43 PMAMSTERDAM (REUTERS) – Dutch prosecutors accused Russia on Tuesday (March 10) of trying to sabotage the investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine in 2014, saying this cast “a dark shadow” over the impending trial of four suspects in the crash. …read more Source:: The...
Trial of men accused in downing of MH17 to begin in Amsterdam
March 09, 2020 9:53 AMAMSTERDAM (REUTERS) – The first hearing in the trial of four fugitive suspects in the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was set to start in Amsterdam on Monday (March 9), more than five years after the plane was downed in Ukraine. …read more Source:: The Straits...
Dutch MH17 trial to start without Russian, Ukrainian suspects
March 06, 2020 4:40 PMAMSTERDAM (REUTERS) – Four fugitive suspects go on trial in the Netherlands on Monday (March 9), charged with the murder of 298 passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down with a Russian-made missile over eastern Ukraine in July 2014. …read more Source:: The Straits...
Coronavirus: Ukraine reports first case
March 03, 2020 5:52 PMKIEV (REUTERS) – Ukraine has its first confirmed coronavirus case, said Ihor Kuzin, the acting head of the Health Ministry’s public health centre, on Tuesday. …read more Source:: The Straits...
Ukraine minister joins China evacuees in coronavirus quarantine after clashes
February 21, 2020 3:53 PMKIEV (AFP) – Ukraine’s health minister said she will spend two weeks in quarantine with evacuees from coronavirus-hit China after protesters clashed with police and threw stones at returnees over infection fears. …read more Source:: The Straits...
