Section: The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Trump blasts Facebook, Twitter for censoring article critical of Biden
US President Donald Trump rebuked Facebook and Twitter Wednesday for blocking links to a New York Post article purporting to expose corrupt dealings by election rival Joe Biden and his son in Ukraine. …read more Source:: The Daily...
US embassy employee in Ukraine found dead by railway tracks
Ukrainian authorities are investigating the death of an employee of the US embassy in Kyiv who was found by railway tracks in a park Wednesday, and are searching for a man suspected of assaulting her. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Ukraine plane crash death toll rises to 26, with 1 survivor
Searchers combing the area where a Ukrainian military aircraft crashed found two more bodies on Saturday, bringing the death toll to 26. One person survived. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Belarusian protest leader ripped up passport to thwart deportation: Interfax Ukraine
Prominent Belarusian opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova ripped up her passport to thwart an attempt to deport her to neighboring Ukraine, the Interfax Ukraine news agency reported Tuesday. …read more Source:: The Daily...
‘Coffee, cigarettes, journalists’: video shows hostage-taker captured in Ukraine bank
Ukrainian security forces disguised as part of a TV news crew captured a suspected hostage-taker at a bank branch in Kyiv Monday, while he was lounging in a chair speaking to journalists whose presence he had demanded along with coffee and cigarettes. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Hostage standoff ends after Ukrainian president endorses animal rights documentary
ll 13 people taken hostage on a bus in western Ukraine were freed unharmed on Tuesday after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy spoke by phone with the hostage-taker and agreed to his demand to endorse a 2005 animal rights documentary. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Armed man seizes bus, holds 10 people hostage in Ukraine
An armed man seized a long-distance bus and took people in it hostage in northwestern Ukraine on Tuesday launching an hours-long standoff with police, Ukrainian authorities said. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Dutch trial over downing of flight MH17 to start without suspects
Four fugitive suspects go on trial in the Netherlands Monday charged with the murder of 298 passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, shot down with a Russian-made missile over eastern Ukraine in July 2014. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Ukraine president to convene security council meeting on Donbass fighting
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will convene a Ukrainian security council meeting on Tuesday after one soldier was killed and four wounded in what Kiev said was heavy shelling by Russian forces in the eastern Donbass region. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Trump heading to acquittal in U.S. Senate impeachment vote on Wednesday
Four months after Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives launched a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, the Senate is poised Wednesday to acquit him on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. …read more Source:: The Daily...
