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Ukraine religious figure linking coronavirus to gay marriage gets sued

Umberto Bacchi and Maria Georgieva, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Apr 14 07:32 AM

TBILISI - A Ukrainian LGBT+ group said on Monday it has sued one of the country's most prominent religious figures over comments blaming the spread of the coronavirus on same-sex marriage, in what the group said was the first such case in ex-Soviet nation. Read more »

Ukraine asks Elon Musk for ventilators to fight virus

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 03 10:34 AM

Ukraine has appealed to Tesla chief Elon Musk to supply vital ventilators for its coronavirus patients as the pandemic takes hold in the post-Soviet state.   Read more »

First coronavirus case confirmed in Ukraine

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 04 12:27 AM

Kiev mayor Vitaliy Klitschko Tuesday announced measures to halt the spread of the virus, saying students would have their temperatures taken at school and public transport would be cleaned with disinfectant.  Read more »

Recording shows Iran knew immediately it had shot down plane -Zelenskiy

Reuters
Posted at Feb 03 08:36 PM

A leaked audio recording of an Iranian pilot talking to the control tower in Tehran shows that Iran knew immediately it had shot down a Ukrainian airliner last month, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Read more »

US Senate rejects witnesses in Trump impeachment trial, clearing way for acquittal

Susan Cornwell and David Morgan, Reuters
Posted at Feb 01 10:39 AM

The US Senate voted on Friday against calling witnesses and collecting new evidence in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, clearing the way for Trump's almost certain acquittal next week. Read more »

Disasters and deaths this January

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 28 03:43 AM

A new decade has just begun but some of the events that may define it have already happened this month.  Read more »

Trump tied Ukraine aid to inquiries he sought vs rivals, Bolton book says

Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt, The New York Times
Posted at Jan 27 11:21 AM

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told his national security adviser in August 2019 that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the Bidens, according to an unpublished manuscript by the former adviser, John Bolton. Read more »

Iran confirms two missiles fired at Ukraine airliner

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 21 05:08 PM

The country's civil aviation authority said it has yet to receive a positive response after requesting technical assistance from France and the United States to decode black boxes from the downed airliner. Read more »

Trump legal team asks Senate for speedy acquittal in impeachment trial

Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, The New York Times
Posted at Jan 21 08:23 AM

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s legal team called on the Senate on Monday to “swiftly reject” the impeachment charges and acquit him, maintaining that he committed no impeachable offense and has been the victim of an illegitimate partisan effort to take him down. Read more »

Giuliani associate says Trump 'knew exactly what was going on' in Ukraine

Catherine Triomphe, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 17 09:00 AM

NEW YORK - Just hours before Donald Trump's impeachment trial opened Thursday, an associate of his personal attorney said the US president was fully aware of efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden. Read more »

Trump impeachment: What happens next?

Reuters
Posted at Jan 16 08:32 AM

Democratic lawmakers, who represent the House majority, voted along party lines on Dec. 18 to impeach Trump over his dealings with Ukraine.   Read more »

Ukraine asks Iran to return black boxes from crashed plane

Reuters
Posted at Jan 15 04:34 PM

KIEV - Ukraine's prosecutor's office and security service have asked Iranian authorities to give Kiev black boxes from the crashed Ukrainian plane, the prosecutors office said on Wednesday. Read more »

Ukraine plane struck by two missiles: report

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 15 08:53 AM

The missiles were fired 30 seconds apart and help explain a mystery as to why the plane's transponder was not working -- it was disabled by the first strike, before being hit by a second, the Times said.   Read more »

Iran judiciary says arrests made over airliner downing

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 14 06:00 PM

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran announced Tuesday that arrests have been made over the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger jet in Tehran last week, without specifying how many.   Read more »

Iran grants Canada investigators access to downed plane

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 14 07:27 AM

Canadian investigators flying to Tehran on Monday will access the wreckage and black boxes from a Ukranian jetliner downed by a missile strike last week, officials said.   Read more »

'Clerics get lost!': Iran protests rage on over plane disaster

Babak Dehghanpisheh, Reuters
Posted at Jan 13 09:21 PM

Protesters denouncing Iran's clerical rulers took to the streets and riot police deployed to face them on Monday, in a third day of demonstrations after authorities acknowledged shooting down a passenger plane by accident. Read more »

Iran missile operator who downed Ukrainian jet acted alone: commander

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 12 12:05 AM

The operator had mistaken the Boeing 737 for a "cruise missile" and only had 10 seconds to decide whether to fire, said Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh, the Guards' aerospace commander. Read more »

Ukraine demands punishment for Iran plane downing

Oleksandr Savochenko, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jan 12 01:44 AM

"We expect Iran... to bring the guilty to the courts," the Ukrainian leader wrote on Facebook, calling also for the "payment of compensation" and the return of remains. Read more »

Iran to probe black boxes after missile blamed for plane crash

Alexander Cornwell and Parisa Hafezi, Reuters
Posted at Jan 11 10:30 AM

Tehran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner crash that killed all 176 people aboard, amid Western suspicions the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile, probably by mistake. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: January 10, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 11 01:01 AM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »