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Ukraine detains Russian tanker over Kerch Strait incident
Ukraine’s security service said on Thursday it had detained a Russian tanker in the Ukrainian port of Izmail for its alleged involvement in an incident in November in the Kerch Strait that led to Russia seizing three Ukrainian vessels. …read more Source:...
Capitalism: the road to world domination
In his history of capitalism’s rise, Donald Sassoon argues that for the economic system to work both the state and the population must accept its drawbacks as well as its benefit. The Anxious Triumph is a big book of comparative history stretching across a global canvas. Written by Donald Sassoon, an emeritus professor at Queen Mary,...
Ukraine’s Zelensky consolidates power with election win
Novice president ‘will have little excuse’ if he fails to deliver promised reforms …read more Source: Financial...
Ukraine election produces colourful cast of new MPs
A rock star, a wrestler and a military medic win election in Ukraine’s political upheaval. …read more Source:...
Reformist president’s new party set to win majority in Ukraine’s parliament
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Ukraine president on course for unprecedented majority after election win
Ukraine’s new president, former comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, appeared likely on Monday to become his country’s first leader since the fall of communism whose party has a parliamentary majority. …read more Source:...
Ukraine election: early results indicate big win for president’s party
Volodymyr Zelenskiy expected to command outright majority with 42.4% of the voteEarly results show that the Ukrainian president’s party has won a majority of seats in Sunday’s parliamentary election.With nearly half of the ballots counted on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s party, Servant of the People (SOTP), is...
Zelensky’s party on course to win Ukraine election
Novice president says technocrat should be prime minister of new coalition government …read more Source: Financial...
Ukraine’s president party on course to win majority in new parliament
Ukraine’s presidential party Servant of the People was on course to win a parliamentary majority at 0615 GMT when more than 40 percent of votes had been counted, according to data from the election commission. …read more Source:...
Five things you need to know today: May and Hunt prepare retaliation against Iran
Plus, Tories brace for Johnson as contest concludes, Hong Kong mob violence leaves 45 hospitalised, and Ukrainian comedian and rock star enter coalition talks. Iran tanker seizure: UK set to announce new sanctions Theresa May will chair a meeting of the government’s emergency committee Cobra at 10:30am this morning after a British-flagged...
