Section: Pattaya Mail (Thailand)
Ukraine, Russia hope for progress after peace talks
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, attend a joint news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday Dec. 9, 2019. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Both Ukraine and Russia are hailing the outcome of...
Peace in sight? Paris summit seeks solution for Ukraine war
Activists sing the national anthem during a rally in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019. ( AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)PARIS (AP) — A long-awaited summit in Paris on Monday aims to find a way to end the war in eastern Ukraine, a conflict that after five years and 14,000 lives lost has emboldened the Kremlin and reshaped European geopolitics....
Trump and the people he forgets he knew: (AP Fact Check)
President Donald Trump listens as French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a meeting at Winfield House during the NATO summit, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in London. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — When certain associates and acquaintances of President Donald Trump get into hot water, he forgets he ever knew them. Various figures from...
Ukraine’s president visits troops ahead of peace talks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, hands over the flag of a military unit during his visits the war-hit Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian president has visited troops facing Russia-backed separatists ahead of a planned international summit on...
Shell shock: Giant invasive mussels eradicated from US ponds
In this Nov. 21, 2019 photo, wildlife officials hold dead Chinese pond mussels that were found in a network of ponds in Franklin Township, N.J. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Most Americans know mussels as thumb-sized shellfish that occasionally adorn restaurant dinner plates. But a colony of mussels as big as the dinner...
Giuliani in Ukraine as Congress moves closer to impeachment
In this handout photo provided by Adriii Derkach’s press office, Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for U.S President Donald Trump, left, meets with Ukrainian lawmaker Adriii Derkach in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. (Adriii Derkach’s press office via AP)KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani...
US House Speaker Pelosi rebukes reporter: ‘Don’t mess with me’
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., responds forcefully to a question from a reporter who asked if she hated President Trump, after announcing earlier that the House is moving forward to draft articles of impeachment against Trump, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) —...
Democrats say Trump impeachment charges must come swiftly
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., makes a statement at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Pelosi announced that the House is moving forward to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats moved aggressively to draw up formal articles of...
African swine fever kills more than 20 wild boar in Poland
In this photo taken March 25, 2018, wild boar are seen roaming near houses in Lomianki county on Warsaw outskirts. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski/file)WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An outbreak of African swine fever in Poland near the German border has killed 21 wild boar, the agriculture minister said Wednesday. Authorities were adding 56 kilometers (34...
Ukraine hopes upcoming summit will settle conflict in east
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, right, welcomes Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Lofven during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. ( AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he hopes his planned talks with the leaders of Russia, France and Germany will settle the...
