Section: The United Kingdom
Ukraine bans BBC journalists from entering country amidst ‘security threat’
UKRAINE has been forced to make a U-turn after banning three Russian-based BBC journalists from entering Ukraine with claims they posed a security threat. …read more Source:...
Ukraine backtracks on some media sanctions
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has asked his government to remove six European journalists from a newly-published sanctions list, officials said on Thursday, after the list was criticized by the country’s Western allies. …read more Source:...
Ukraine takes BBC staff off banned list
Ukraine is to remove the names of three BBC journalists from a list of banned individuals that has been criticised as “absurd” by one rights group. …read more Source:...
Ukraine approves debt restructuring deal
Concerns remain over $3bn payment due to Moscow by the end of the year …read more Source: Financial...
Thursday September 17
The latest news from The City at 8am, plus a US business update landing at 4pm Investors and economists bet on Fed hold “The market is fed up with the Fed’s continuous delays, and I expect nothing but more disappointment today,” Nour Al-Hammoury, chief market strategist at ADS Securities, told the Financial Times. Equities...
Ukraine allows BBC journalists to remain
President Poroshenko reverses decision to ban British trio after they were on a list of correspondents who pose a ‘threat to national security’President Petro Poroshenko has reversed his decision to ban three BBC journalists from Ukraine after an international outcry.Correspondent Steve Rosenberg, producer Emma Wells and cameraman Anton...
Ukraine bans 3 BBC journalists from the country claiming they pose a ‘security threat’
BBC Correspondent Steve Rosenberg, pictured, as well as his producer Emma Wells and their Russian cameraman Anton Chicherov are among 400 names on a blacklist published by Ukraine. …read more Source: Daily...
Ukraine bans dozens of foreign journalists as ‘threats to national security’
Kiev criticised for blacklisting journalists including senior BBC correspondents and Spanish reporters missing in Syria alongside Russian officials and separatist leaders …read more Source: The...
Kremlin says inclusion of media in Ukraine sanctions ‘totally unacceptable’
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukraine’s decision to sanction many media representatives is totally unacceptable, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. …read more Source:...
Sir Elton John ‘pranked’ with hoax Vladimir Putin call
Title Elton John Alt Text Elton John Sir Elton, who has long campaigned for gay rights, led to believe he was talking with Russian leader One-Minute Read Thursday, September 17, 2015 – 10:30am …read more Source: The...
