Section: Bangkok Post (Thailand)
Ukraine offers Trump own jet after Air Force One flap
KIEV – Ukraine’s main plane maker told US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday that he may want to purchase one of its jets after he called Boeing’s version of Air Force One too costly. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Europa League point will do it for draw-weary Manchester United
PARIS – Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United face Zorya Luhansk on Thursday knowing that a draw in the frigid Ukraine will propel them into the knockout stages of the Europa League. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Napoli, Benfica through as Arsenal pinch top spot in last 16
PARIS – Napoli and Benfica clinched places in the Champions League last 16 on Tuesday as nine-man Besiktas capitulated at Dynamo Kiev, while Arsenal snatched first place away from Paris Saint-Germain in Group A. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine’s ex-leader Yanukovych accuses protesters of starting war
KIEV – Ukraine’s former Moscow-backed president on Monday accused pro-EU protesters who forced his ouster of provoking the 31-month pro-Russian revolt in the southeast that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives. …read more Source: Bangkok...
European leaders, Obama say must maintain NATO cooperation
BERLIN – US President Barack Obama and European leaders stressed Friday that cooperation through international bodies including NATO must be maintained, as they also vowed to keep up sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Safety pins: a pointed show of solidarity after Trump election
WASHINGTON – People have long used ribbons, flowers, colors or badges to symbolize political causes, from the carnations of Portugal’s 1974 revolution to the orange ribbons of Ukraine’s 2004 revolution to the gel wristbands now worn to promote almost any charity. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Children ‘forget Ukrainian’ as schools drop classes in rebel area
DONETSK (UKRAINE) – Valeriya Turbay says she’s forgetting how to speak Ukraine’s official language as schoolchildren in the bastion of the pro-Russian rebels get fewer lessons after two years of war and an onslaught of Kremlin-inspired instruction. …read more Source: Bangkok...
European Parliament to award Sakharov prize
STRASBOURG (FRANCE) – Exiled Turkish journalist Can Dundar, Crimean Tatar activist Mustafa Dzhemilev and two Yazidi victims of the Islamic State group have been shortlisted for the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize to be announced Thursday. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Kuznetsova one win from WTA Finals
MOSCOW – Top-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova advanced into the final of the Kremlin Cup on Friday with a hard-fought win over fourth seed Ukrainian Elina Svitolina to give her hopes of making the WTA Finals a further boost. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Hollande, Merkel slam Russia on Aleppo, leave sanctions open
BERLIN – The leaders of France and Germany lashed out at President Vladimir Putin over Moscow’s bombardment of Syria’s Aleppo and refused to rule out imposing sanctions on Russia. …read more Source: Bangkok...
