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Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | ‘Gorby’ transformed world’s history, not a hero at home

The general peace that reigned in the decade after the Iron Curtain came down was, however, unlikely to last forever

02 Sep 2022 12:05 AM

It should come as no surprise if, six months later, the war is still on through its anniversary because the Russian army is busy in east and south Ukraine. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | When will Putin’s war end?

When will good sense prevail in this endless war that is defying Russian military superiority? Not soon enough by the looks of it

25 Aug 2022 12:23 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | When religions, cults dominate, truth a casualty & nations suffer

Religion has, throughout history, dominated the realms of politics and governance

13 Aug 2022 12:11 AM

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss (L) talks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg as they arrive for a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels on January 24, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

NATO sending planes, ships to eastern Europe

Tensions are mounting as the West accuses Moscow of threatening to invade Ukraine by massing over 100,000 troops on its border

24 Jan 2022 9:32 PM

The Iranian Civil Aviation Authority denied the report, saying that the plane refuelled in Mashhad and then flew to Kiev. (PTI Photo)

Ukraine, Iran deny hijacking of evacuation plane from Afghanistan: Report

Ukraine's deputy foreign minister Yevgeny Yenin had claimed that a Ukrainian plane was hijacked in Afghanistan by unidentified people

24 Aug 2021 5:57 PM

Ukraine's Artem Dovbyk (right) celebrates with teammates after making it 2-1 against Sweden in the final Round of 16 clash of Euro 2020 at the Hampden Park Stadium in Glasgow, Tuesday. (Photo: AP)

Dovbyk heads Ukraine into Euro 2020 quarter-final clash with England

The Underdogs will now face England in the Quarterfinals

30 Jun 2021 6:25 PM

Nurses hold newborn babies wearing face shields, as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (AFP)

Lockdown delays these surrogate babies from reaching their mothers

With the lockdown in place, most parents have only seen their newborns through pictures and video calls with the clinic

15 May 2020 10:30 AM

"The National Defence Authorisation Act signed by President Trump strengthens US security assistance to Ukraine and reaffirms strong bipartisan US support to Ukraine," the US embassy in Kiev said in a statement. (Photo: File)

US to provide USD 300 million military aid to Ukraine in 2020

The almost USD11bn (£8.4bn) Nord Stream 2 project has infuriated the US, with both Republican and Democratic lawmakers opposing it.

24 Dec 2019 11:20 AM

“I don’t want the crown back,” she wrote on her Instagram page on Sunday. (Photo: Instagram)

Ex-beauty queen barred from Miss World for being mother, files lawsuit

There has not yet been any comment from Miss World on the issue.

03 Dec 2019 1:45 PM

Apple appeared to have changed the way it displays locations in Crimea in its software.

Apple 'taking a deeper look' at map policies after calling Crimea part of Russia

Russia and Ukraine have both been highly sensitive to the way global companies identify Crimea.

30 Nov 2019 8:47 AM

Documents released by the US Department of Justice on Saturday indicated that a top advisor to then-candidate Donald Trump said as early as the summer of 2016 that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind a hack of Democratic party emails. (Photo: File)

Trump aide behind theory that Ukraine hacked democrat mails: Mueller notes

In 2016, WikiLeaks began publishing thousands of Democratic National Committee emails, embarrassing Trump's election rival Hillary Clinton.

03 Nov 2019 1:05 PM

The whistleblower whose complaint has shaken the foundations of Donald Trump's presidency is a male officer of the Central Intelligence Agency who was seconded to the White House, the New York Times reported Thursday. (Photo: File)

Whistleblower in Trump Ukraine scandal a CIA officer: report

The man 'was detailed to work at the White House at one point' but has since returned to the CIA, the Times said.

27 Sep 2019 9:22 AM

Joe Biden on Wednesday said that US President Donald Trump has committed "an impeachable offence" by asking Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to initiate an investigation against the former US vice president. (Photo: File)

Trump has committed 'an impeachable offence': Joe Biden

Trump has termed Democrats' investigation of his conversation as a political witch hunt.

26 Sep 2019 2:14 PM

President Donald Trump on Monday denied trying to coerce Ukraine into investigating his Democratic political rival Joe Biden, but wavered about whether he would release a transcript of a phone call that some Democrats say is grounds for his impeachment. (Photo: File)

Trump says he put 'no pressure' on Ukraine, as tension mount; see video

Trump gave a contradictory message about whether he would release a transcript of the call with the Ukrainian leader.

24 Sep 2019 11:35 AM

Eight people were killed and ten were injured in a hotel fire in Ukraine's port city of Odessa early Saturday, emergency services said. (Representational Image)

9 killed, 10 injured in Ukraine hotel fire

Police opened a criminal investigation into possible violations of fire safety requirements and causes of the fire were being established.

17 Aug 2019 2:18 PM

More than three decades after he flew his helicopter above the radioactive volcano that was Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor number four, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident, Mykola Volkozub recalls how he feared for his life. (video screengrab/ YouTube)

‘Nobody is not afraid’: Chernobyl pilot who made 3 flights within 20 minutes

Eyeing up the reactor for the first time in 33 years, Volkozub said he couldn’t recognise it.

16 Aug 2019 7:07 PM

Markiv's has been held in several prisons in Italy, according to Il Giorno. (Photo: Representative Image)

Ukraine soldier gets 24 years in prison for journalist deaths

Il Giorno reported that the sentence against Markiv, was higher than the 17 years requested by the prosecution.

13 Jul 2019 2:00 PM

In his Facebook post, Zelensky warned Russia not to talk with Ukraine "in the language of threats or military or economic pressure." (Photo: File)

Ukraine's Zelensky turns down Putin's offer, welcomes agitated Russians

He pledged instead to "give citizenship to representatives of all nations that suffer from authoritarian and corrupt regimes"

28 Apr 2019 6:26 PM

Players of “Isotopium: Chernobyl” drive tanks around the ghost town of Prypyat near Chernobyl.

Chernobyl comes back to life in Ukrainian computer game

The game takes its theme from the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in northern Ukraine.

28 Apr 2019 12:50 PM

Head of the unrecognised republic Leonid Pasechnik on Twitter called the explosion at the Skhidcarbon mine a "terrible tragedy". (Photo: Representational purpose)

Blast in Ukraine's mine; 3 dead, 14 injured

The gas blast ripped through the mine in Yurievka village in the self-proclaimed Republic of Lugansk, which broke away from Kiev in 2014.

26 Apr 2019 4:49 PM

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