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Reuters: Democrat Clinton makes history, wins U.S. presidential nomination
Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic Party`s White House nomination, coming back from a stinging defeat in her first presidential run in 2008 and surviving a bitter primary fight to become the first woman to head the ticket of a major party in U.S. history, according to Reuters.In a symbolic show of party unity, Clinton`s former rival, U.S....
New UN Security Council Members
On 28 June 2016, the 193 members of the United Nations General Assembly elected Sweden, Bolivia, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan as two-year, non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. After five rounds of voting, the final spot was a dead heat so a compromise was met, with Italy set to serve in 2017 and the Netherlands in 2018. The...
Poroshenko discusses with Merkel constant violations of Minsk deal by Russia
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday, July 26, had phone conversation with Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, the president`s press service reports.The Head of State expressed deep concern over the drastic escalation of the situation in Donbas and the increased number of casualties caused by the intensification of artillery shelling...
2 OSCE SMM`s UAVs come under fire in Donbas, another one downed
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission has reported on the loss of one of its long-range unmanned aerial vehicles in eastern Ukrainian Donbas, also stating that one of the UAVs has been downed near the contact line. ”At 23:51 on July 25, while flying over government-controlled Avdiivka, approximately 600m north-west of the contact line and 12.5 km...
Two Russian warships spotted near Ukraine`s territorial waters
Coastal surveillance systems of the Ukrainian Navy on the morning of Tuesday, July 26, have identified two warships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet near the territorial waters of Ukraine, the Navy Headquarters has told UNIAN.The warships spotted were Pytliviy frigate and Ekvator medium reconnaissance ship, the Navy HQ reported.Navy helicopters...
Intrigue, Outrage, and Relatively Free Elections in Ukraine
On the eve of Ukraine’s special elections on July 17, Nadiya Savchenko walked into the crowded Stansiya Lughansk district commission offices in eastern Ukraine. She was there to campaign for Fatherland’s Iryna Verihina, who had been Luhansk’s governor for about six months before being replaced. Catching sight of Serhiy Shakhov,...
Farmers harvest 2 mln tonnes of grain in Dnipropetrovsk region
Farmers have already achieved almost 90% of the plan for early grain crops, the press service of the regional administration`s department of agricultural development has told UNIAN.According to the report, wheat`s share in the total yield is more than 1,300 tonnes. The average yield remains the same as last year`s level of 29.8 c/ha.”This year we...
U.S. to deliver to Ukraine UAVs, night vision devices this week – Pyatt
In the framework of non-lethal assistance to Ukraine, the United States this week will provide Ukraine with the unmanned aerial vehicles and night-vision devices, according to U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, an UaPosition correspondent reported from a meeting of a discussion club in Kyiv organized by Open Ukraine foundation.Pyatt noted...
”Unpleasant truth” on escape of Maidan protesters` murderers gradually surfacing
Head of the Department of Special Investigations at the Prosecutor General`s Office Serhiy Horbatyuk has named NGO whose top manager allegedly assisted Berkut officers in fleeing Kyiv, getting rid of evidence of mass shootings at Maidan, LB.ua reports.The escape of the major part of the so-called ”black hundred” – the Berkut police special forces...
PM Groysman confident joint efforts with EU to develop digital technology in Ukraine
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman is convinced that the joint efforts of the EU and Ukraine aimed at cooperation in the digital economy will contribute to the development of electronic technology in Ukraine, stated the Head of Government at the Forum on digital economy attended by European Commissioner Guenter Oettinger, on Tuesday,...