Section: The United Kingdom
Hungary arrests Ukrainian captain of cruise ship involved in fatal Danube crash
Hungarian police late on Thursday said it had taken into custody the captain of a cruise ship involved in an accident on the Danube River in central Budapest that killed at least seven South Korean tourists on Wednesday. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian parliament rejects prime minister’s resignation
Ukraine’s parliament voted to reject Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman’s resignation on Thursday, with the largest faction arguing his resignation would lead to “chaos” before a snap election due in July. …read more Source:...
Four killed in Ukrainian military helicopter crash
A Ukrainian Soviet-designed military helicopter Mi-8 crashed late on Wednesday in western Ukraine, killing all four crew members, Ukrainian land forces said on Thursday. …read more Source:...
Ex-Georgian leader Saakashvili stages triumphant return to Ukraine
Former Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili returned to Ukraine on Wednesday, greeted by cheering supporters and music at Kiev airport, after new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy restored his Ukrainian citizenship a year after he was deported. …read more Source:...
How the Kremlin sees the rest of the world
Russian analysts reckon the US will be less focused on intervening around the world and will be more nationalist, mercantilist and interest-focused. Thomas Hobbes described the life of a man as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”. The Kremlin’s view of the world is dark and Hobbesian. But on a recent visit to Moscow, I was struck by...
Vladimir Putin shows that dictators hang on to power not despite the people, but because of them
More than fear or censorship, it is social interactions with like-minded friends and relatives that keep people on board. Picture this: A government in trouble. The economy foundering. Poll numbers sliding. In the corridors of power, advisers struggling to gain traction with wayward voters decide to get mean – by turning citizens against one...
Why vaccine hesitancy is a giant threat to global health and the conspiracy theory of our times
Campaigners frame themselves as heroic truth-tellers fighting to save children from a deceitful medical establishment in cahoots with Big Pharma. It has been 21 years since the British doctor Andrew Wakefield published a paper in the Lancet proposing a connection between the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism, and nine since he...
Ukraine and IMF to prepare new aid programme after election: presidential official
Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund have agreed to prepare a new aid programme to be ready after a snap parliamentary election in July, top presidential official Oleksandr Danylyuk said on Tuesday. …read more Source:...
Georgia’s Saakashvili has Ukrainian citizenship restored
Mikheil Saakashvili has his Ukrainian citizenship restored after it was removed amid a political row. …read more Source:...
Ukraine president holds contest for new ‘highly moral’ lawmaker candidates
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s team on Monday invited applications from members of the public to fight a snap election in July for his new Servant of the People party, betting they can wrench power from a discredited political class. …read more Source:...
