Section: The United Kingdom
Comedian leads new poll in Ukraine presidential election
Comic actor Volodymyr Zelenskiy is the frontrunner in Ukraine’s presidential election, according to the latest opinion poll published on Wednesday. …read more Source:...
Ukraine president signs amendment on NATO, EU membership
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Ukraine’s Poroshenko uses church in re-election bid
President hopes split with Russia will woo voters weary of war and economic malaise …read more Source: Financial...
Ukraine seeks more EU aid for south, east regions as elections near
Ukraine’s foreign minister asked the European Union on Monday for hundreds of millions of euros in loans and aid for infrastructure and businesses in its troubled east and south, regions he said Russia was trying to “suffocate”. …read more Source:...
Ahead of EU polls, Facebook voids accounts targeting Moldovan election
(This February 14 story corrects to make clear Ukraine is not an EU member) …read more Source:...
Ukraine pitches for more EU aid for south-east as elections near
Ukraine’s foreign minister asked the European Union on Monday for hundreds of millions of euros in loans and aid for infrastructure and businesses in its troubled east and south, regions he said Russia was trying to “suffocate”. …read more Source:...
Bank of England should NOT choose white scientist for new $50 note
Treasury minister Robert Jenrick said the new £50 note ‘should symbolise our values as a country.’ Among the names being considered for the new note is Mary Seacole, a Crimean War nurse. …read more Source: Daily...
Ukraine deports Orthodox bishop after stripping citizenship
Russia condemns move as row escalates over Ukrainian church’s autonomyUkraine has stripped an Orthodox bishop of his citizenship and barred him from entering the country as a dispute escalates over the Ukrainian and Russian branches of the church.Ukrainian border guards on Thursday said they had detained and then deported Bishop Gedeon, the...
Shrinking the Black Sea
IT IS OFF-SEASON in Anaklia. The snack stands on the Black Sea promenade are shut, the hotels are empty, palm trees rustle in the mild February breeze. Cows graze amid marshy ponds and tangerine and hazelnut orchards. But just outside this sleepy Georgian resort, a lunar landscape is emerging. Black sand has been dredged from the seabed to create...
U.S. senators to try again to pass Russia sanctions bill
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a bill on Wednesday that would impose stiff new sanctions on Russia over its meddling in U.S. elections and aggression against Ukraine, the latest congressional effort to push President Donald Trump to ratchet up Washington’s response to Moscow. …read more Source:...
