Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
Trump denies Hillary Clinton claim he sought foreign help for 2020 election
Speculation Ukraine was asked for information to damage BidenTrump ‘asked a foreign power to help him win an election. Again’Donald Trump on Friday denied an accusation from his political rival Hillary Clinton that he sought help from a foreign government to help his bid for re-election – a potential replay of Russia’s meddling in the...
Trump whistleblower complaint: focus shifts to Ukraine amid Giuliani claims
Speculation over reported promise to foreign leader mounts as Giuliani seems to admit to pressing Ukraine to investigate BidenSpeculation in Washington is at fever pitch over the reports that Donald Trump’s promise to a foreign leader so troubled a US intelligence official that it prompted a whistleblower complaint, with the focus now...
Tino Valdi obituary
My friend Tino Valdi, who has died aged 90, was a singer and member of Bruce Forsyth’s variety touring show in the late 1950s and once shared the bill with Max Miller. Known as “a new voice from Italy”, he appeared on many radio and television programmes throughout the 60s and 70s, as well as in concert halls at home and abroad. Heperformed...
EU leaders must get tough with Israel | Letter
Chris Doyle responds to the news that Benjamin Netanyahu intends to annex large parts of the occupied West BankBack in 2014, Russian forces entered Crimea and the peninsula was annexed. The reaction of Britain and other EU states was clear and immediate. Sanctions were imposed on Russia in a decision that most saw as reasonable and appropriate,...
Russia complicit in human rights abuses in Crimea, court told
Case could embarrass Vladimir Putin and prompt Ukrainian demands for reparationsThe Russian state directed and ran the military coup in Crimea and its subsequent annexation in 2014, Ukraine has told the European court of human rights.The case in Strasbourg is one of a series of brought by the Ukrainian government designed to expose alleged...
Trump offers to join in French overtures to resolve Russia-Ukraine crisis
US president hails Sunday’s Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap and pledges support for Normandy format talksA French-led initiative to restore Europe’s relations with Moscow has led to an offer from Donald Trump to join talks to resolve Russia’s incursion into Ukraine.Trump has said he is willing to join the so-called Normandy format...
Euro 2020 roundup: France find it easy after Albania anthem embarrassment
• 4-1 win for world champions follows Stade de France PA gaffe• Portugal get campaign on track with 4-2 win in SerbiaA weakened France side scored four goals for the fourth time in five Euro 2020 qualifiers as the Group H leaders swept aside Albania 4-1.Their superior goal difference in head-to-head matches with Turkey and Iceland is what is...
Abandoned wall tiles reimagined as fashion – in pictures
Since 2014, for her series Second Hand, Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadyrova has been exploring “the history of buildings that have changed ownership and function” by making visual analogies with recycled clothing, in a former silk factory in Kyiv, for example, or an abandoned bus station near Chernobyl.The results, including those exhibited at the...
Released prisoners met by family after Ukraine-Russia exchange – video
Kyiv and Moscow each released 35 prisoners in a dramatic exchange that resulted in freedom for 24 Ukrainian sailors taken captive by Russia. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, was on the runway at Kyiv’s airport to greet the released prisoners and there were emotional scenes as family members were reunitedLong-awaited...
Long-awaited Russia-Ukraine prisoner exchange begins
Each country releasing 35 prisoners in biggest exchange since start of Crimea conflictA long-awaited prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine got under way on Saturday morning, Russian state media said.Details of the exchange have been kept under wraps, but it is believed that both countries will release about 35 prisoners. Russia is expected...
