“There will be more NATO troops in Poland after the Warsaw summit, to send a clear signal that an attack on Poland will be considered an attack on the whole alliance,” Stoltenberg said on May 30 in Warsaw, RFE/RL reports. ...
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Ukrainian Hanna Rizatdinova wins gold in Rhythmic Gymnastics 2016 World Cup – video
Ukraine’s Hanna Rizatdinova won the gold medal at competitions at the in Rhythmic Gymnastics held in Sophia, Bulgaria, according to Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee, Ukrinform reports. “The result of 18.800 in the exercises with a hoop was victorious for our ...
Read More »Ukrainian gymnast wins gold, silver at European Championship in Bern – video
Ukrainian gymnast Oleh Verniaiev won gold on the vault and silver on the parallel bars at the 32nd European Championships held in Bern, Switzerland, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to UA Today. The Ukrainian gymnast scored 15,399 for his two attempts ...
Read More »Scientists find link between brain infections and Alzheimer’s
The study, published this week, focused on the protein known as Amyloid Betas. A-Betas are the major component found in the Beta-Amyloid plaques that clump together in Alzheimer’s patients brains, the same plaques that cause the degeneration of the brain and memory loss over ...
Read More »Ukraine’s ‘forgotten’ elderly people struggle to survive in war zone
In Ukraine’s volatile Donbas region, there are currently more than three million people in need of assistance. This ranges from no access to drinking water, low food supplies to simply a lack of shelter. One third of those people are ...
Read More »Ukrainian Radio begins broadcast in Russia-occupied Crimea
Ukrainian radio station “UR-1 Ukrainske Radio” started broadcasting in the Russian-occupied Crimea on 101.4 FM from May 26, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to UNIAN. “For the first time over two years of annexation, the Crimeans again hear the Ukrainian words ...
Read More »Ukrainians won two Global Awards at NASA Space Apps Challenge 2016
The team from Kyiv won People’s Choice with the MarsHopper project and Canadian Ukrainian Tanya Oleksiuk from Toronto and her team of the Kid on the Moon won the Global Award as the Most Inspirational project at NASA Space Apps ...
Read More »Oil hits $50 a barrel for the first time in seven month
Benchmark Brent crude hit $50.22 per barrel at one stage on Thursday, its highest level since early November, BBC reports. The rise followed US data showing that oil inventories had fallen after supply disruptions due to fires in Canada. Brent ...
Read More »Ukrainian artist presents watercolors collection of doors
The young Ukrainian artist Viktoria Kravchenko loves to travel and paint. She has recently presented her unique watercolor collection of the seven doors around the world. Viktoria finds these doors very interesting in terms of design and architecture, Joinfo.ua reports ...
Read More »EgyptAir crash: Investigators dismissed explosion theory
The head of Egypt’s forensics authority dismissed a suggestion on Tuesday that the small size of the body parts retrieved since an EgyptAir plane crashed last week indicated there was an explosion on board, Reuters reports. Investigators struggling to work ...
Read More »Ukrainian make-up artist is close to her dream to study in Hollywood
The Ukrainian Julia Melnyk from Crimea is a self-taught make-up artist. Julia’s dream is to enter the Hollywood’s Professional Makeup School, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to Podrobnosti. Julia has been working on it for two years. There is no such ...
Read More »Google developing project to test AI artistic ability
The project, called Magenta, was unveiled this weekend at Moogest in Durham, North Carolina, the Verge reports. During a presentation at Moogfest, Google Brain researcher Douglas Eck said the goal of the new group is to determine if AI is ...
Read More »US President lifts embargo on lethal arms sales to Vietnam
Speaking during a visit to communist Vietnam and talks with its leaders, the US President Barack Obama said the move removed a “lingering vestige of the Cold War”, BBC reports. The US is trying to bolster its relationship with its ...
Read More »First Ukrainian drone races held in Kyiv
On the weekend, 24 pilots from Kyiv, Odesa and Zaporizhya gathered at the first speed race drone competition in Ukraine’s capital, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to Podrobnosti. Julian, a musician, turned to drone engineering two years ago. Now he is ...
Read More »Kazakh police detains protesters against privatization of farmlands and reporters
Opponents of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has been in power since 1989, had called for rallies in all major cities, extending a series of demonstrations that started last month in response to plans to privatise large tracts of farmland, Reuters ...
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