Their statement said the truce did not include so-called Islamic State (IS) and the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. So, Syria, Russia and the US-led coalition will continue air strikes against these groups, BBC reports. World powers had on 12 February agreed ...
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Apple calls to form commission on encryption issues
On Monday February 22, Apple Inc proposed to create a government commission or panel of experts on encryption to help resolve the standoff over national security and data privacy that began last week after the technology company refused a U.S. ...
Read More »Researchers created a third arm for drummer
This wearable robotic arm is not just mirroring the movements of the drummer. It’s a “smart arm” that’s actually responding to the music, and performing in a way that compliments what the human player is doing, Gizmodo reports. The two-foot ...
Read More »Ukrainian hryvnia dropped below UAH 27 per dollar on interbank market
At 13:00 Kyiv time on Monday, Ukrainian hryvnia exchange rate on the interbank currency market dropped to UAH 27.10-27.15 per dollar, while at the closing of the previous trading session on Friday it was UAH 26.90-27.00 per dollar, Joinfo.ua reports with ...
Read More »Jamala to represent Ukraine at Eurovision 2016
Jamala, whose full name is Susana Dzhamaladinova, was born in Kyrgyzstan, where her parents lived after Joseph Stalin’s deportation from Crimea in May 1944, Joinfo.ua reports. Her song 1944 is inspired by the tragical story of her great-grandmother and many fates of ...
Read More »President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and his wife Maryna Poroshenko honored memory of the fallen Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred
The presidential couple put icon lamps near the Memorial Cross on the Alley of Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred, a place where brave Ukrainians had been killed, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to the presidential administration.
Read More »German, French Foreign Ministers to visit Ukraine on 22-23 February
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s spokesman, Martin Schaefer, said that he will meet in Berlin with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and they will then fly to Kyiv, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to ABC news. Schaefer said the ministers will ...
Read More »President of Poland: Russia fomenting new Cold War
In an interview with Reuters, Duda hit back at comments by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who last week described East-West relations as descending “into a new Cold War” and said NATO was “hostile and closed” toward Russia. “If Mr ...
Read More »United Ukraine – Free Ukraine: a singer from Germany dedicates her song to the Heaven’s Hundred
Linà, a singer from the Ukrainian diaspora in Germany, says that she wrote the song two years ago, when the dramatic events on the Maidan in Ukraine began – dozens of people were killed during the Revolution of Dignity, Joinfo.ua ...
Read More »The U.S. Vice President Joe Biden commended Ukraine’s President on decision to replace Prosecutor General of Ukraine
The U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, in a telephone call on Thursday, commended Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on the passage of anti-corruption legislation sought by the International Monetary Fund and the European Union, the White House said, Reuters reports. “The ...
Read More »Prosecutor General of Ukraine submitted letter of resignation to the president
Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin submitted a letter of resignation to the Presidential Administration, as the spokesman of the Ukrainian president Svyatoslav Tsegolko wrote on Twitter today, Joinfo.ua reports. “Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin wrote a letter of resignation. It ...
Read More »UNICEF calls for access to 500,000 children in eastern Ukraine
The United Nations children’s agency says the conflict in Ukraine has deeply affected the lives of a half-million children living in areas not controlled by the Ukrainian government and near the front lines of the fighting with pro-Russia separatists, Voice ...
Read More »Virgin Galactic to reveal a new space plane
The event is set to take place here at the Mojave Air and Space Port, Mashable reports. The first SpaceShipTwo, named Enterprise, disintegrated above the Mojave Desert during a 2014 test flight, killing one test pilot and leaving the other ...
Read More »Ukrainian parliament coalition break up: Samopomich faction pulls out
“The leaders of the Samopomich party have decided to recognize as impossible Samopomich’s further alliance with the political forces that are involved in an oligarchic coup at the parliament and stop its membership in the parliamentary coalition,” faction leader Oleh ...
Read More »Turkey blames Kurdish militants for blast in Ankara
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed a Syrian Kurdish militia fighter working with Kurdish militants inside Turkey for a suicide car bombing that killed 28 people in the capital Ankara, and he vowed retaliation in both Syria and Iraq, Reuters ...
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