Section: CBC (Canada)
Polls open in Ukraine parliamentary election
Polls opened in Ukraine’s parliamentary elections on Sunday morning as Ukrainians vote in two ballots due to a mixed voting system in the country. …read more Source:...
Russia, Ukraine in talks over fate of captured sailors, other prisoners
The Russian envoy for human rights, Svetlana Moskalkova, arrived in Ukraine on Monday on a rare visit, and held talks with her Ukrainian counterpart about captured prisoners. …read more Source:...
Structure containing Chornobyl reactor’s radioactive dust now operational
A structure built over the Chornobyl nuclear power plant’s damaged fourth reactor and designed to confine radioactive dust from the reactor at the centre of the 1986 disaster is up and running. …read more Source:...
U.K., Canada launch push to protect media freedom at London conference
Britain and Canada are leading a push to secure more protections for journalists, saying a free press “protects society from the abuse of power.” …read more Source:...
Malaysian PM says there’s ‘no proof’ of Russian involvement in MH17 downing
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Thursday rejected the implication that Russia may have been involved in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014. …read more Source:...
Investigators to name suspects in downing of Flight MH17
International investigators are set on Wednesday to launch criminal proceedings against suspects in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine nearly five years ago. …read more Source:...
HBO show’s popularity drives Chornobyl tourism boom
The success of a U.S. television miniseries examining the world’s worst nuclear accident at Chornobyl has driven up the number of tourists wanting to see the plant and the abandoned ghost town in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Cruise ship captain in Hungary boat crash was involved in previous collision
The Ukrainian captain of the cruise ship involved in last week’s deadly collision with a sightseeing boat on the Danube River in Budapest was also involved in a crash in the Netherlands on April 1, Budapest’s chief prosecution office says. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s new president gets sworn in, dissolves parliament
Ukrainian TV star Volodymyr Zelenskiy was sworn in Monday as the new president, promised to stop the war in the East against Russian-backed separatists and immediately dissolved parliament, which he has branded as a group only interested in self-enrichment. …read more Source:...
‘We should get the hell out of here’: Ex-diplomat recalls mission to rescue students in Chornobyl disaster
Diplomats at Canada’s embassy in Moscow didn’t know what was happening when radiation readings began rising in April 1986, but they knew there were Canadian students in Kyiv who should be warned. …read more Source:...
