Section: The United Kingdom
Why Ukraine has become ensnared in US collusion claims
A Kiev prosecutor revives allegations that Ukraine worked with Democrats to damage the Trump campaign. …read more Source:...
Council of Europe votes to maintain Russia’s membership
Human rights body had stripped Moscow of its voting rights over 2014 Crimea annexationRussia will remain in the Council of Europe after ministers at the human rights organisation moved to end a bitter dispute following the annexation of Crimea.Meeting in Helsinki, ministers of the 47-nation body voted overwhelmingly in favour of a declaration...
Ministers agree way for Russia to rejoin Europe’s human rights body
Foreign ministers from the Council of Europe, the continent’s chief human rights watchdog, reached an agreement on Friday that opens the way for Russia to return to the organization, resolving a dispute that began after Moscow’s seizure of Crimea. …read more Source:...
Ukraine ruling coalition breaks up, may lead to snap election
Ukraine’s ruling coalition broke up on Friday after the People’s Front party quit outgoing President Petro Poroshenko’s faction, potentially paving the way for incoming President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to call a snap election. …read more Source:...
Ukraine parliament coalition breaks up: speaker
Ukraine’s main parliamentary coalition broke up on Friday after the People’s Front party quit outgoing President Petro Poroshenko’s faction, the parliament speaker said. …read more Source:...
The woes of vintners in occupied Crimea
VINES LINE the hills south of Sevastopol. Oleg Repin, a local vintner, surveys the land and recalls his days harvesting grapes as a schoolboy. “Living here, sooner or later you come in touch with wine,” he says. One of a handful of boutique Crimean winemakers hoping to revive fine wine on the peninsula, his brand, launched in 2010, now produces a...
Russian bridge to Crimea strangles Ukraine ports
Ships bound for key maritime cities face average delays of 40 hours …read more Source: Financial...
Choco Leibniz heiress apologises over Nazi forced labour remarks
Verena Bahlsen says comments were ‘thoughtless’ amid calls for a boycott of biscuit brand The heiress of a German biscuit empire has apologised for stirring outrage with remarks that appeared to play down the hardship suffered by dozens of people forced to work at the family business under Nazi rule.Verena Bahlsen, whose father owns the...
Russell T Davies’s Years and Years is bold and brilliant
What audacity is here. What heart, what freedom, and what brilliance. Russell T Davies has said that his new series, Years and Years, is hard to describe succinctly, and that this is a worry to him because “I like a one-line pitch”. I like one-line pitches, too – I didn’t spend my twenties writing headlines for nothing – but having devoted...
Can Russia and the US be friends?
Description Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, in July 2017 Credits Saul Loeb/Getty Images Alt Text trump putin Vladimir Putin meets with officials from Washington in bid to restore good relations In …read more Source: The...
