Ukraine
Biden summit offer hailed in Moscow as win for Putin
With indications that work was already under way for a potential meeting in Finland, Russian officials were crowing that Moscow was finally being treated with...
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Ousted ambassador calls US diplomacy 'amoral'
Marie Yovanovitch, who Trump abruptly recalled last May from her post as US ambassador to Ukraine, spoke at Washington's Georgetown University where she received a prize from the school's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.
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Iran not sharing evidence from airline crash with Ukraine after audio leak
The audio file was part of the evidence that was given to Ukrainian experts as part of the joint investigative team’s examination of the crash.
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Pompeo visits Ukraine as Trump impeachment trial advances
Mike Pompeo will meet President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is at the centre of Trump's historic impeachment trial for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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Trump attacks Bolton as impeachment trial heats up
Bolton's book reportedly says that the president wanted to freeze military aid to Ukraine until Kiev opened an investigation into Trump's political rival Joe Biden.
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Trump denies telling Bolton Ukraine aid was tied to probe
Citing Bolton's unpublished manuscript, 'The Times' wrote that Trump told Bolton he wanted to keep frozen $391 million in aid to Ukraine until Kiev officials helped with a probe into his Democratic rival Joe Biden.
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Trump trial looms as House to send charges to Senate on Wednesday
The formal delivery of the charges against US President Donald Trump will set the stage for the opening of his trial likely Thursday or Friday.
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'Clerics get lost!': Iran protests rage on over plane disaster
Iranian public anger, rumbling for days as Iran repeatedly denied it was to blame for the plane crash, erupted into protests on Saturday when the military admitted its role.
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'Grieving nations' to discuss legal action against Iran over downed airliner
Ukraine’s foreign minister Vadym Prystaiko said the five nations also included Canada - which had at least 57 passport holders aboard the doomed flight - Sweden, Afghanistan and a fifth country which he did not name.
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Iran denies shooting at protesters amid fury over downing of plane
The demonstrations are the latest development in one of the most destabilising escalations between the US and Iran since the Iranian revolution of 1979.
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Iran denies missile downed Ukrainian plane
The Boeing 737 crashed on Wednesday shortly after Tehran launched missiles at US forces in Iraq in response to the killing of a top Iranian general in a US drone strike.
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Iran wants to handle black box data after plane crash blamed on missile
Iran said it could take one or two months to extract information from the voice and flight data recorders.
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Canadian PM: Iranian missile brought down airliner
Trudeau's comments came as video emerged that appeared to show the moment the airliner was hit.
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US officials believe Iran accidentally shot down Ukraine airliner: US media
Unnamed officials told American media that Iranian air defence systems likely accidentally shot down the airliner on Wednesday, killing all of the 176 people on board.
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Ukraine in national mourning after deadly airliner crash
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday cut short a trip to Oman and flew back to Ukraine after the Boeing 737 flying from Tehran to Kiev crashed shortly after takeoff.
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Crashed Boeing was checked two days ago: Ukrainian airline
It took off from Tehran airport at 6:10 a.m. and disappeared from radars just a few minutes later, crashing in Tehran province.
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CARTOON: Impeached and Impaired
By Dr Jack & Curtis.
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Trump faces firestorm after identifying alleged whistleblower
Criticism has been growing since Trump retweeted an attack that included the name of the reported CIA staffer at the heart of the Ukraine scandal - an act that could violate the whistleblower's guaranteed anonymity under the law.
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House panel approves Trump charges, sets up impeachment vote
Democrats and Republicans in the House Judiciary Committee voted along strict party lines, 23 to 17, appearing somber as they put Trump on track to become only the third president to be impeached in US history.
