Section: The United Kingdom
Kosovo to get visa-free travel in the EU
Kosovo likely to join Turkey, Ukraine and Georgia as new beneficiaries of visa-free EU travel …read more Source: Financial...
Anti-Zionism vs Anti-Semitism: it is becoming a distinction without a difference
Labour MP Naz Shah, who recently stirred up controversy by sharing a Facebook post that was viewed as being anti-Semitic ©PA/PA Wire/Press Association Images Where to start with Labour and anti-Semitism? At the top. As the Russian saying goes “a fish rots from the head.” This crisis—and it is one—is the direct and entirely predictable consequence...
UN says 9,333 killed since Ukraine conflict began
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Soviet apocalypse
“MY MOTHERLAND is the Soviet Union,” reads a sentence written in cursive script in one of the exercise books scattered on the floor of an abandoned school in Pripyat, a Soviet-era ghost town in Ukraine next to the Chernobyl nuclear plant. The town, built for the plant’s workers and their families, was evacuated on the afternoon of April...
Russia lets sister of jailed pilot Savchenko return to Ukraine: Poroshenko
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday the sister of jailed Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko had been allowed back to Ukraine, after Russian border guards had prevented her from crossing the border last night, saying she was under investigation. …read more Source:...
‘Stark deterioration of press freedom’ in Europe, says Index on Censorship
Campaign group says there has been a 30% rise in incidents involving journalists, voicing particular concern about Turkey and UkraineThere has been a “stark deterioration of press freedom” in Europe in 2016 with conflict in Turkey and Ukraine creating especially difficult conditions for journalists. Index on Censorship said it had seen 301...
Ukraine says Russia detained sister of jailed pilot Savchenko
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russia on Wednesday of detaining the sister of jailed Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko and seizing her passport on the border between the two countries. …read more Source:...
Trump’s new righthand man has history of controversial clients and deals
Paul Manafort’s track record may create new headaches for a campaign that has been criticized for weak foreign policy credentials and controversial stancesFor almost four decades, Donald Trump’s newly installed senior campaign adviser Paul Manafort has managed to juggle two different worlds: well-known during US election season as a...
Procedure to extradite Ukraine’s Savchenko from Russia started: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A procedure to extradite jailed Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko from Russia has been started, RIA news agency quoted her lawyer as saying on Wednesday. …read more Source:...
At least four civilians killed at checkpoint in eastern Ukraine
KIEV (Reuters) – At least four civilians were killed and several wounded by explosions at a village checkpoint in rebel-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said. …read more Source:...
