Tag: Ukraine

(AP) Ukraine’s capital girds for major demonstrationsKIEV, UkraineOpposition demonstrators are heading for a major rally in the center of Ukraine’s capital while government backers are gathering nearby for their own demonstration, as tensions remain strong in the political crisis now

(AP) Spurned by president, EU embraces Ukraine protestBy RAF CASERTAssociated PressBRUSSELSTwo weeks ago, the European Union’s foreign policy chief was at a summit in Lithuania, wooing Ukraine’s president with offers of preferential dealings with the world’s largest trade bloc. This

(AP) Ukraine police stand down after protest growsBy JIM HEINTZ and MARIA DANILOVAAssociated PressKIEV, UkrainePolice in Ukraine on Wednesday pulled back as protesters claimed victory after an overnight face-off in which authorities removed some barricades and tents and scuffled with

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Ukraine anti-Russian protesters tear down Lenin statue in Kiev Jordan is elected to Saudi Arabia’s rejected UN Security Council seat Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi gains in India’s election Ukraine anti-Russian protesters tear down Lenin

On December 8th, protesters in Kiev toppled their city’s main statue of Vladimir Lenin and pummeled it “into chips” with sledgehammers. According to The New York Times, angry protesters pounded the statue “into chips… as a crowd chanted and cheered.”

(AP) Ukraine capital braces for massive protestKIEV, UkraineThousands of Ukrainians angered by the president’s turn away from Europe and by police violence are heading for the center of the capital for a mass rally. Sunday’s gathering is expected to be

(AP) Kiev protests continue, resolution elusiveKIEV, UkraineThousands of people are gathered in Kiev’s Independence Square, where Orthodox priests chanted prayers at dawn and demonstrators are vowing to keep up their protests. President Viktor Yanukovych is out of the country on

(AP) No-confidence vote in Ukraine failsBy MARIA DANILOVAAssociated PressKIEV, UkraineUkraine’s opposition has failed in its attempt to force out the government with a no-confidence vote in parliament. The failure leaves Ukraine’s political tensions unresolved, with opposition demonstrators still angered by

Ukrainians taking to the streets to protest their government’s refusal to strike a trade deal with the European Union may be the first of several post-Soviet states facing the choice between Russia and Europe as Georgia and Moldova gear up for

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(AP) Ukraine: Protesters besiege government buildingBy YURAS KARMANAU and MARIA DANILOVAAssoicated PressKIEV, UkraineThousands of Ukrainian protesters on Monday blocked entrances to the government building and called for the ouster of the prime minister and his cabinet, as anger at the

(AP) Ukraine: Tens of thousands march through KievBy MARIA DANILOVAAssociated PressKIEV, UkraineAs many as 100,000 demonstrators chased away police to rally in the center of Ukraine’s capital on Sunday, defying a government ban on protests on Independence Square, in the

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(AP) In aging China, old woman sues children for careBy KRISTEN GELINEAUAssociated PressFUSHENG, ChinaThe daughter-in-law smashes the cockroach under her foot and rolls open the rusted metal doors to the garage. Light spills onto a small figure huddled on a

More than a thousand bearded men, muffled in scarves and accompanied by veiled women, stand under the hot sun, waving black and white flags and chanting “Allahu Akbar!” (God is Greatest). This is not a scene from the Middle East

The lengths to which the Taliban will go to massacre innocent people have quite literally reached new heights. Saturday, in a mountaineering camp above 12,000 feet in Pakistan, 10 mountaineers from various countries including America, the Ukraine, Slovakia, China, Lithuania