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Ukraine police end stand-off with detaining armed man

00:51 Law enforcement officers detained a man with a firearm and explosives in the Ukrainian city of Lutsk and freed all hostages. The 44-year old suspect, Maksym Kryvosh, originally h

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Ukraine looking forward to crashed plane's black boxes decryption results: president

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that the French Bureau of Investigation and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety would start decoding the flight record

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World leaders and COVID-19: Who has it and who's isolating?

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was the most high-profile world leader to announce positive for COVID-19 test late Tuesday, but he is far from the only one to be directly caught up in the globa

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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news ( June 13 - June 19 )

Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.This week, the following hot news you should know:Top 1 | Trump signs order on

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Ukraine's first lady hospitalized with COVID-19

Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska takes part in the Fashion 4 Development First Lady Luncheon in the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in September, 2019. Image Credit: Official website of the

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Germany tracing app, Spain may quarantine Britons: COVID-19 bulletin

- Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, has been hospitalized after she tested positive for COVID-19. She is said to be in a stable condition.- Russia's daily cases rose

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Ukraine's first lady contracts coronavirus

Olena Zelenska, wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, announced on Friday via her official social media account that she has tested positive for COVID-19 vir

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Chernobyl forest fire still smoldering as nearly 1,400 rescuers work at site

A total of 1343 rescuers and 299 vehicles are still working on putting out the smoldering remaining at the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the State Emergency Service of Ukr

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China, Ukraine ready to deepen cooperation to combat COVID-19: FMs

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on deepening the two countries' cooperation to combat COVID-19 in a phone conversation on Wedn

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Zelensky outlines emergency measures to combat coronavirus

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday spoke to Ukrainians about measures to fight the novel coronavirus, suggesting further restrictions on travel and shutting down of non-essential busin

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Russia's policy toward Ukraine remains unchanged: Kremlin

Russia's policy toward Ukraine remains unchanged after Volodymyr Zelensky replaced Petro Poroshenko as the new president of Ukraine last year, the Kremlin said Wednesd

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Trump contradicts his own denial and admits he sent Giuliani to Ukraine to dig dirt on political opponents

Emboldened after his impeachment acquittal, President Donald Trump now openly admits to sending his attorney Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to find damaging information about

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The 'Davos of global geopolitical security' ponders 'Westlessness'

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the 2019 Munich Security Conference (Credit: AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) The "Davos of global geopolitical security" starts this week, and the theme is

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Trump ousts envoy to EU after impeachment acquittal: report

U.S. President Donald Trump had dismissed Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, who testified in the impeachment inquiry, days after a divided Senate acquitted Trump on impeachment charg

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Trump says Mulvaney to remain as acting White House chief of staff

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Mick Mulvaney will remain as his acting chief of staff amid media reports that the aide's future at the White House is in doubt. "That was a false r

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U.S. democracy in peril

U.S. Capitol. /VCG Photo Editor's note: Elizabeth Drew is a Washington-based journalist and the author, most recently, of Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall.

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Spotlight: Trump takes victory lap on impeachment acquittal by divided Senate

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving the White House in Washington D.C., the United States, on Aug. 21, 2019. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua) "You're impeached forever, you're