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Street violence in Kiev dims prospects for peace effort in Ukraine’s east
KIEV (Reuters) – A spasm of street violence has driven home how hard it is going to be for Ukrainian President President Petro Poroshenko to rally national support behind an internationally-brokered deal to bring peace to the east of his country. …read more Source:...
Banned cluster bombs ‘used in Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, Sudan, Libya’
Cluster Munition Coalition report finds bombs that kill and maim large numbers of civilians remain in widespread useIslamic State (Isis), Syrian government forces, both sides in the conflict in eastern Ukraine and Saudi jets attacking targets in Yemen have all used cluster bombs and rockets banned by international treaty, according to an...
Ukraine needs radical reforms not Soviet bans
As the country celebrates anniversary of independence from USSR, Jaroslav Gritsak argues that an independent judiciary is more important than the removal of statuesWhat is my reaction to Ukraine’s attempt to break ties with its Soviet past by banning communist symbols? Well, I do not have one. In common with much of the country, such...
Ukraine reports polio outbreak in first Europe cases since 2010
Two children in southwestern Ukraine paralysed by polio, the first outbreak of the disease in Europe since 2010, World Health Organisation says …read more Source: The...
Kiev’s week of violence is a crisis of its own making | Andrey Kurkov
Theories abound about the violence that has flared again in Kiev. But despite profiting from it, Russia is very unlikely to have perpetrated itA “day of fury” was proclaimed on Monday by the Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda (Freedom). The fury ended with a grenade being thrown into lines of soldiers guarding the Kiev parliament building, where...
Polio in Ukraine: Two children paralysed as first cases of virus in Europe since 2010 recorded
In the first outbreak of polio in Europe for half a decade, two children in Ukraine have been paralysed by the highly contagious disease. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine: Costs of conflict
A debt deal agreed with the IMF and creditors averted default but the war-torn country’s worries are far from over …read more Source: Financial...
Poroshenko Blames Russia For Police Deaths
In an exclusive interview with Sky News, Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko accuses Russia of extending its “campaign of destabilisation”. …read more Source: Sky...
Polio in two Ukrainian children first occurrence of disease in Europe since 2010
WHO confirms that a child aged four years and another of 10 months are paralysed after contracting diseaseTwo children in Ukraine have been paralysed after contracting polio – the first time the disease has been seen in Europe since 2010.Confirming the cases in a child of four years and one aged 10 months in Zakarpatskaya oblast, south-western...
Putin helps Russian MP evade EU sanctions to get medical visa for Italy
Iosif Kobzon, known as ‘Russia’s Sinatra’, who has sung in rebel-held Ukraine, accused of hypocrisy for seeking treatment abroad despite anti-western rhetoricItaly has confirmed it has given a visa to the sanctioned Russian singer and MP Iosif Kobzon after the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, reportedly intervened to help him go to...
