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A Year On, Questions Haunt Iran's Downing of Ukrainian Plane
More questions than answers remain about the disaster that killed 176 people on board a Ukrainian jetliner, a year after Iran’s military mistakenly downed the plane with surface-to-air missiles
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Feds Discussed Making Legal Request for Giuliani's Electronic Communications, Say Two Sources
Federal prosecutors have discussed making a legal request for Rudy Giuliani’s electronic communications, two sources familiar with the probe tell NBC News, a sign that the investigation into President Donald Trump’s personal attorney remains active and may soon be ramping up.
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WATCH: Woman Struggling With Icy Sidewalk Becomes Viral ‘Metaphor' for 2020
A woman in Kyiv, Ukraine, has gone viral for her struggle with an icy sidewalk.
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Ukraine's President Tests Positive for COVID-19
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he has tested positive for the coronavirus and will be working in self-isolation while being treated
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Trump Pushes Partisan Attacks on Hunter Biden
President Donald Trump attacked Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, for alleged “conflicts of interest” in his work with Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, despite the GOP-led Senate releasing a report last week which provided no evidence that Hunter Biden’s work impacted U.S. policy.
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GOP Senate Report on Biden Son Alleges Conflict of Interest
Two Republican-led Senate committees have issued a politically charged report alleging that the work Joe Biden’s son did in Ukraine constituted a conflict of interest for the Obama administration at a time when Biden was engaged in Ukraine policy as vice president
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Charges, Sanctions Revive Specter of Russian Interference
The Trump administration has charged a Russian national in a sweeping plot to sow distrust in the American political process, And the government is imposing sanctions against a Ukrainian lawmaker accused of interfering in the U.S. presidential election in November
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Iran Retrieves Data, Cockpit Talk From Downed Ukraine Plane
An Iranian official is quoted as saying that some data, including a portion of the cockpit conversations, have been retrieved from the Ukrainian jetliner downed by Iranian forces in January
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Ukraine Hostage-taker Surrenders, Bus Passengers Unharmed
Ukrainian police say an armed man who seized hostages on a long-distance bus in the western city of Lutsk has been detained and all the people he held have been freed unharmed after a standoff that lasted more than 12 hours
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Iran Blames Bad Communication, Alignment for Jet Shootdown
Iranian investigators are blaming a misaligned missile battery and miscommunication between soldiers and their commanders for the Revolutionary Guard shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner in January, killing 176 people.
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Trump Impeachment Focused Too ‘Narrowly' on Ukraine: Bolton
Former national security advisor John Bolton will say in his forthcoming memoir that House Democrats who impeached President Donald Trump last year for withholding U.S. foreign aid to Ukraine were focused too narrowly on one country. In reality, “Ukraine-like transgressions existed across the full range” of Trump’s foreign policy, Bolton writes in “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.”...
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Ukrainian Drones Now Used to Combat Coronavirus
A company in Ukraine is using drones once used for spraying crops to disinfect vehicles used for public transportation.
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Wildfire Still Burning Near Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Ukraine’s state emergencies service continued to fight a wildfire burning in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
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Republican, Democratic Senators Press Trump for More on IG's Firing
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said Wednesday he’s assembled a bipartisan group of senators calling on President Donald Trump to provide a “detailed written explanation” for the removal of the inspector general who flagged the Ukraine whistleblower complaint, NBC News reports.
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Trump Firing Inspector General Who Flagged Ukraine Whistleblower Complaint
President Donald Trump has informed Congress that he is removing the inspector general who flagged the Ukraine whistleblower complaint, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.
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Dutch Trial Opens for 4 Suspects in Downing of Flight MH17
A Dutch prosecutor has solemnly read out the names of all 298 people killed when a missile shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014 over eastern Ukraine
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Ex-US Envoy to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch Has Book Deal
The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who provided chilling testimony during the Trump impeachment hearings has a book deal
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Yovanovitch, Key Figure in Trump Trial, Inks Book Deal
Marie Yovanovitch, who was ousted from her post as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine after a smear campaign by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, has signed a book deal, it was announced Friday. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said it had acquired a memoir by Yovanovich, a key witness and figure in the House inquiry that led to President Donald Trump’s impeachment. “The as-yet-untitled memoir will...
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Ukrainians Hurl Stones at Virus Outbreak Evacuees From China
Ukraine’s effort to quarantine more than 70 people evacuated from China over the new virus outbreak plunged into chaos Thursday as local residents opposing the move hurled stones at the evacuees and engaged in violent clashes with police. Officials deplored the violence and the country’s health minister pledged to share evacuees’ quarantine for two weeks in a bid to...
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DOJ Taps U.S. Attorneys to Coordinate Ukraine Investigations
The Justice Department has appointed U.S. attorneys from New York and Pennsylvania to coordinate federal investigations into Ukraine-related matters