Tag: Ukraine

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 07:55 UTC

  Argentine couple finally collects their child in Kiev born to a surrogate Ukrainian mother

  

  For parents Jose Perez and Flavia Lavorino, the wait is finally over. On Wednesday, the couple from Buenos Aires met their baby son Manu for the first time, 71 days after he was born to a surrogate mother 12,875km away in Ukraine.

• Tuesday, February 11th 2020 - 08:01 UTC

  Trump plans to slash foreign aid and invest funds to counter threats from China and Russia

  

  President Donald Trump will propose cutting billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid in his fiscal 2021 budget while seeking an increase in funds to counter developing economic threats from China and Russia, senior administration officials revealed.

• Tuesday, January 28th 2020 - 07:19 UTC

  Ukraine gets on the nerves of Pompeo and dumps reporter from the press pool

  

  The U.S. State Department removed a National Public Radio reporter from the press pool for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's upcoming foreign trip, a press association and NPR said on Monday, days after Pompeo angrily responded to another NPR journalist's interview with him.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 09:36 UTC

  Canada and US believe Ukrainian airliner was downed, unintentionally, by Iranian missile; Iran denies

  

  Ukraine airliner that crashed in Iran, killing all 176 people aboard, was likely brought down by an Iranian missile, Canada's prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said on Thursday, citing intelligence from Canadian and other sources.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 09:35 UTC

  US, Canadian, Ukrainian experts invited by Iran to check on the airplane crash in Teheran airport

  

  Iran has invited the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board to take part in its investigation into the crash of a Ukrainian jetliner and the U.S. agency has agreed to assign an investigator, an Iranian official said on Thursday.

• Thursday, January 9th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  Western intelligence believe the Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran was not a missile target

  

  The initial assessment of Western intelligence agencies is that a Ukrainian airliner which crashed in Iran on Wednesday was not brought down by a missile, said a Canadian security source. The source said the agencies believed the Boeing 737 plane had suffered a technical malfunction.

• Thursday, December 19th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Trump becomes third US president impeached; Republican Senate tries

  

  US President Donald Trump was impeached in a historic vote in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, setting up a Senate trial on removing him from office after three turbulent years.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Trump dismisses the impeachment inquiry on Biden-Ukrainian contacts, as “a joke”

  

  A downbeat Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed as a “joke” the grounds laid out for the impeachment inquiry into him, as Democrats stood firm in accusing the US president of a “mafia-style shakedown” of his Ukrainian counterpart.

• Friday, June 21st 2019 - 09:07 UTC

  EU extends economic sanctions against Russia over Ukraine until February 2020

  

  European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to prolong economic sanctions against Russia over the turmoil in Ukraine until the end of January 2020, a spokesman for the bloc said. The EU first slapped sanctions on Russia after Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014 and supported rebels fighting Kiev troops in the east of the country. That conflict, which killed 13,000 people, is still simmering.

• Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 08:38 UTC

  Millionaire comedian elected president in Ukraine, defeats establishment candidate

  

  Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has been elected president of Ukraine twice - first as a character in the popular TV show “Servant of the People”, now for real. The 41-year-old performer's bid started out as a long shot but, on the back of popular discontent with the political class, he sent establishment candidates tumbling.