Section: KXAN (USA)
New Ukraine decree offers eased rules for Belarus IT workers
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president has signed a decree simplifying regulations for IT workers from Belarus who are willing to relocate to the neighboring country amid mass protests and a continuing crackdown on demonstrators and opposition activists in Belarus, officials said Sunday. The new decree signed by President Volodymyr...
Over 100,000 protest in Belarus for 9th straight Sunday
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More than 100,000 people marched in Belarus’ capital for the ninth straight Sunday to protest against the country’s authoritarian leader, who won his sixth term in office in an election widely seen as rigged. The demonstrators demanded the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko, and freedom for political...
Canada forms own probe into Iran downing of Ukraine plane
TORONTO (AP) — Canada is forming its own forensic examination and assessment team to examine evidence and information after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shot down a Ukrainian jetliner in January, killing all 176 people on board. The office of Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne told The Associated Press the team will collect,...
Belarus, Russia announce retaliatory sanctions against EU
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Friday announced they were imposing sanctions against the European Union, and threatened to revise the country’s diplomatic relations with the bloc, in response to EU sanctions on several dozen Belarus officials accused of falsifying presidential election results and leading a crackdown on...
Ukrainian wildfires kill 5, set off ammunition from war
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Wildfires in eastern Ukraine have killed at least five people and detonated unexploded ordnance fired during fighting with Russia-backed separatists, authorities said Thursday. About 2,200 hectares (5,500 acres) were on fire in the Luhansk region, the state forestry agency said. In the town of Stanichna Luhanska, flames...
Volunteers in Belarus get shots in virus vaccine trial
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus has started giving shots to volunteers in human trials of Russia’s coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V, which received Russian government approval in August but drew considerable criticism from experts, as it had only been tested on several dozen people. The first Belarusian volunteer received the first shot on...
Police in Ukraine investigate death of US Embassy employee
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Police in Ukraine are investigating the death of an American woman who worked for the United States Embassy in Kyiv. The woman was found unconscious with a head injury near the railway tracks in a park not far from the embassy on Wednesday, according to a police statement. She died in a hospital later in the day. A U.S....
Ukraine marks 79th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine on Tuesday marked the 79th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, one of the most infamous mass slaughters of World War II. Babi Yar, a ravine in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, is where nearly 34,000 Jews were killed within 48 hours in 1941 when the city was under Nazi occupation. The killing was carried out by SS...
Lawyer: Russian suspect denies involvement in downing MH17
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — One of the suspects charged in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 denies any involvement and wants to speak in court to explain his version of events, his lawyer said Monday as the trial in absentia of three Russians and a Ukrainian resumed in a Dutch courtroom. Sabine ten...
Ambassadors appeal for acceptance of LGBT people in Poland
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Ambassadors to Poland from some 50 countries and international organizations have expressed their support for the LGBT community in the country, citing a need to work for “non-discrimination, tolerance and mutual acceptance.” The appeal, made in an open letter published Sunday, comes as an increasingly visible...
