Ukraine
Ukraine president seeks Biden support against Russia after Afghan war
Russian officials have pointed to Afghanistan as a lesson for Ukraine, which has relied on the West in a seven-year war against Moscow-linked separatists, but...
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Trial in MH17 crash to start hearing evidence
The trial formally began in March 2020 but has so far been dealing with legal arguments, mainly about the admissibility of evidence in the crash in which 298 passengers and crew were killed.
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Russia begins drawdown of troops from Ukraine borders
Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu announced on Thursday that tens of thousands of troops who had deployed to southern and western Russia for exercises over the past few weeks would be returning to their bases.
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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 the respect it deserves.
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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Citing Bolton's unpublished manuscript, 'The Times' wrote that Trump told Bolton he wanted to keep frozen $391 million in aid to Ukraine until Kiev officials helped with a probe into his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.
