Section: The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
Joe Biden on Donald Trump: ‘I’ll beat him like a drum’
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden hit back after being swept up in US President Donald Trump’s latest controversy.Last week, the Washington Post reported that Trump pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate a company… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
A ‘diplomatic disaster’ for new leaders in Kiev
Ukrainian leaders are trapped in the middle of a very Washington firefight, facing mounting pressure from US President Donald Trump and his allies to investigate the son of political rival Joe Biden, and are searching for a way to… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Biden decries reports about Trump, Ukraine’s president
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday decried reports that President Donald Trump urged the president of Ukraine to look into his son’s business dealings there.Biden said in a statement that if the reports are true, “Then there… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Trump pressed Ukrainian leader in effort to hurt rival Biden
President Donald Trump pressed the leader of Ukraine to investigate the son of former vice president Joe Biden in a call between the two leaders that is at the centre of an extraordinary whistleblower complaint, according to two people… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Russia and Ukraine trade prisoners, each fly 35 to freedom
Russia and Ukraine conducted a major prisoner exchange that freed 35 people detained in each country and flew them to the other, a deal that could help advance Russia-Ukraine relations and end five years of fighting in Ukraine’s east.The… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Boy chained up by principal mother who is charged with torture
A Ukraine foster mother is charged with child abuse of her 8-year-old son after allegedly chaining him up and sealing his mouth with duct tape at home.School principal Anna Zhitnik, 56, was arrested after police raided her home… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Ukraine wants Chernobyl to be a tourist site. But scientists warn: Don’t kick up dust.
The tourists first started flocking to Chernobyl nearly 10 years ago, when fans of the video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. wanted to see firsthand the nuclear wasteland they’d visited in virtual reality.Next came those whose curiosity piqued… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Giant new dome built to contain Chernobyl’s radioactive debris revealed
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday inaugurated a giant structure built to confine radioactive debris at the nuclear reactor that exploded in Chernobyl in 1986.The confinement structure for the Chernobyl nuclear… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Five myths about the Chernobyl disaster
More than three decades ago, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian republic of the Soviet Union exploded. A fierce fire burned for the following two weeks, sending columns of radioactive gases and particles… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Germany’s Merkel says she’s OK after shaking at ceremony
German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared unsteady and was visibly shaking yesterday as she greeted the new Ukrainian leader in the hot sun in Berlin, saying later that she clearly hadn’t drunk enough water.Merkel’s whole body visibly… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
