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8 dead, 10 hospitalized in Ukrainian hotel fire
A fire in a hotel in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa has killed eight people and left a further 10 hospitalized. A city police statement said a criminal investigation … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
8 dead, 10 hospitalized in Ukrainian hotel fire
A fire in a hotel in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa has killed eight people and left a further 10 hospitalized …read more Source: ABC...
Eight Die In Fire At Hotel In Ukraine’s Odesa
Eight people died in a fire early on August 17 in a private hotel in the southern Ukrainian port of Odesa, Ukraine’s emergencies service said. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Eight Die in Fire at Hotel in Ukraine
KIEV (Reuters) – Eight people died and 10 more were injured in a fire early on Saturday in a private hotel in the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa… …read more Source: U.S....
Trump Court Nominee Rebuts Rachel Maddow’s ‘Racial Purity’ Charge
A White House lawyer nominated for a federal judgeship sharply defended himself Friday from accusations based on a 2010 law review article that he, the son and grandson of Jewish immigrants, is an advocate of “racial purity.” President Donald Trump nominated Steven Menashi on Wednesday to a seat on the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of...
A Russian ‘Spy Plane’ Was Spotted Over the Midwest. But It’s Totally Normal (Yes, Really)
It reads like something out of a conspiracy theory. On Tuesday, Russia sent a surveillance plane over the Midwest, and the U.S. military didn’t do anything to stop it. Keen observers spotted the plane, a Tupolev Tu-154M, on commercial flight trackers as it entered U.S. airspace on Aug. 11 and flew past Dayton, Ohio and then west over...
17 Chinese, Ukrainian Seamen Kidnapped off Cameroon Coast
Nine Chinese and eight Ukrainian seamen were abducted Thursday when two merchant vessels came under attack in Cameroonian waters in the Gulf of Guinea, sources said Friday.”Seventeen Chinese and Ukrainians were kidnapped … (of whom) nine (are) Chinese who were abducted on one of the ships,” an official in the port of Douala told...
Moscow Court Upholds Extension Of Pretrial Detention For Six Of 24 Ukrainian Sailors
A court in Moscow has upheld a lower court’s decision to extend pretrial detention for six of the 24 Ukrainian sailors detained by Russian forces along with their three naval vessels in November near the Kerch Strait, which links the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
U.S. Special Envoy To Ukraine Says Russian Propaganda Hindering Peace Efforts
The U.S. special peace envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, says Russian propaganda is making it a challenge to solve the conflict in Crimea. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Pilot hailed as hero after bird strike disables Russian jet
MOSCOW — A Russian pilot was being hailed as a hero Thursday for safely landing his passenger jet in a corn field after it collided with a flock of gulls seconds after takeoff, causing both engines to malfunction. While dozens of people on the plane sought medical assistance, only one was hospitalized. The quick thinking of the captain, 41-year...
