Section: The United Kingdom
Malaysia Airlines settles damages with MH17 victims: report
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Malaysia Airlines has struck a deal to settle damages claims for most victims of its MH17 flight that was shot down over eastern Ukraine two years ago on Sunday, Dutch national broadcaster NOS reported. …read more Source:...
The Latest: Armenia, Ukraine, Swiss each report Nice death
The Latest on a truck that drove into the crowd in Nice. …read more Source:...
UN report blasts both sides in Ukraine conflict
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Kiev art installation lets Ukrainians knock Lenin off his pedestal
Exhibit invites visitors to perch where a statue of the former Soviet leader stood until it was toppled during protests in 2013 For decades, Vladimir Lenin enjoyed a splendid view over Kiev’s Besarabsky market, until the monument to the former Soviet leader was pulled down from its perch in December 2013 by crowds who would eventually go on...
Ukraine crisis: Impunity ‘pervasive’ in east, says UN
Very few people have been brought to account for killings in eastern Ukraine and some cases could amount to war crimes, the UN says. …read more Source:...
NATO, Russia remain at loggerheads over Ukraine
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Flight MH17, two years on: ‘As far as I’m concerned, Putin killed my son’
In 2014, young Richard Mayne was one of 298 people killed over rebel-held eastern Ukraine when a missile blew their plane out of the sky. On the eve of the second anniversary, his family have no doubt where the blame really liesOn 17 July 2014, Richard Mayne was upstairs in his bedroom, stuffing clothes into a suitcase. It was 1am. A few hours...
Time to bury Economic Man: why we make political decisions based on emotions over facts
The importance of emotions over “facts” is something that the Leave campaign seemed instinctively to understand. In a recent BBC documentary a woman stood crying in front of a selection of potatoes at the supermarket. There was a dizzying array of potatoes on offer – but she just couldn’t choose between them. The presenter, David Eagleman,...
Brexit puts Germany firmly in charge of Europe
Irrespective of petitions, speculation about when Article 50 will be triggered and the implosion of the UK’s two leading political parties, one thing is certain in post-referendum Britain – the country has voluntarily and irrevocably surrendered its privileged place within the inner circle of EU leaders. Nature – and politics – abhors a...
In Russia and Ukraine, women are still blamed for being raped
Founder of #IAmNotScaredToSpeak explains why she’s encouraging women share their experiences of abuseI was scrolling through an online discussion where people were blaming a rape victim for what had happened to her, when I knew that I had to do something. In cases like this in Ukraine, and throughout the post-Soviet world, people...
