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Leader of Lugansk, Donbass, Injured in Explosion
06 de agosto de 2016, 09:26Kiev, Aug 6 (Prensa Latina) The leader of the self-proclaimed People””s Republic of Lugansk, Igor Plotnitsky, was injured on Saturday when a bomb exploded in his car in the administrative heart of that region of Donbass, in southeastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Prensa...
Crimean Authorities Report ISIS Training Camps in Southern Ukraine
Moscow.- The Deputy Prime Minister of the Crimea Ruslan Baalbek stated concentration of Islamic radicals at northern borders of the peninsulain the Kherson region. …read more Source:...
German FM: Trump victory could affect trans-Atlantic ties
A victory for Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election could affect trans-Atlantic ties, Germany’s foreign minister said Thursday. Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in an interview that if the Republican candidate wins the presidency it would mean “a lot of uncertainty for the trans-Atlantic relationship.” Trump’s...
Up there: Netherlands, Latvia lead world for people’s height
If you want to see a tall population of men, go to the Netherlands. Tall women? Latvia. And in the United States, which lags behind dozens of other countries in height, the average for adults stopped increasing about 20 years ago. That’s the word from researchers who analyzed a century’s worth of height data from 200 countries....
Up there: Netherlands, Latvia lead world for people’s height
If you want to see a tall population of men, go to the Netherlands. Tall women? Latvia. And in the United States, which lags behind dozens of other countries in height, the average for adults stopped increasing about 20 years ago. That’s the word from researchers who analyzed a century’s worth of height data from 200 countries....
Ukraine, after war, becomes a trove for black market arms trade
On Feb. 12 last year, the same day that a ceasefire ended the worst of the fighting in eastern Ukraine between rebels and government forces, a former rebel fighter seized a chance to turn his inside knowledge of the conflict into hard cash. He traveled to a spot on the Russian-Ukrainian border where he retrieved a cache of weapons hidden there...
Exclusive: Top Obama aide to take call for South China Sea calm to Beijing
U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice will urge Beijing next week to avoid escalation in the South China Sea when she makes the highest-level U.S. visit to China since an international court rejected its sweeping claims to the strategic waterway. Even as Washington has sought to keep a lid on the situation, Rice – in an interview with Reuters...
Good day for Jamaican sprinters on Day 1 of World U-20 Championships
Jamaica’s medal hopefuls Junelle Bromfield and Tiffany James are safely through to the semi-finals of the women’s 100 metres at the 2016 IAAF World Under-20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Both easily won their heat during the afternoon session on the opening day of the five-day championships on Tuesday. Bromfield, who is the top...
Women in Russia, Ukraine Unite Online Against Sex Abuse
Women across Russia and Ukraine are uniting and speaking out — for once, not about the tensions between their two nations, nor the Russia-backed separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine — but about their experiences of rape and sexual violence. Victoria Ivleva was just 20 years old when she was raped by a stranger just steps from her Moscow...
Families Caught in Painful Limbo Awaiting IDs of Nice Dead
NICE, France — The painstaking process of identifying the victims of the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice dragged into its third day Sunday, adding to the anguish of family members caught between uncertainty and grief. Eighty-four people were killed in the Thursday night attack on the Promenades des Anglais, which happened as they were...
