Ukraine

FILE PHOTO: A medical worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) gets out of the infectious disease ward at the Oleksandrivska Clinical Hospital, where Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is presumably being treated after contracting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Kyiv, Ukraine June 16, 2020. REUTERS/Valentyn OgirenkoKYIV…

KYIV (Reuters) - Torrential rains in Ukraine have killed three people, forced hundreds from their homes and cut off villages in western regions, authorities said on Wednesday.While many were trying to guard their property, about 800 people had been evacuated since the rains began on Monday, said Interior Minister Arsen…

STOCKHOLM, June 23 (Reuters) - Furniture retailer IKEA said on Tuesday it would review its wood supply chain in Ukraine after a report by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) alleged illegal logging in the Carpathian mountains, home to endangered lynx and brown bears. The report by Earthsight alleged IKEA suppliers illegally…

Photo: ShutterstockMy boyfriend is a ketchup guy. You know, the kind of guy who puts ketchup on a lot of things, some of which feel a little inappropriate. (It really bugs me when he puts it on mashed potatoes, for instance.) But love means accepting, even celebrating, your partner’s idiosyncrasies,…

By Maria Vasilyeva and Margaryta ChornokondratenkoMOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) - The targeting of colonial-era monuments in some Western nations has prompted activists in Russia and Ukraine to reflect on how their own countries dealt with Soviet-era statues and, in some cases, to ask whether it was good enough.Protesters have toppled or vandalised…

Updated 3 months ago · Published on 21 Jun 2020 8:07AM · French bulldogs can fetch C$4,000 each in Canada, where puppy sales are ‘lucrative’, says a University of Guelph expert. – EPA pic, June 21, 2020. CANADA has launched an investigation after some 500 puppies – 38 of them…

TORONTO — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is investigating after dozens of dogs were found dead or sick on a flight from Ukraine at a Toronto airport. TORONTO — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is investigating after dozens of dogs were found dead or sick on a flight from Ukraine at a Toronto airport.…

TORONTO -- Dozens of puppies were found dead as an international airline flight unloaded its cargo at the Toronto Pearson Airport last weekend. The Ukraine International Airlines flight landed at the Toronto airport on June 13, carrying 500 puppies in its cargo hold, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in…

The fate of the cockpit voice and data "black box" recorders has been the subject of an international standoff eclipsed by the coronavirus crisis. By REUTERS  JUNE 18, 2020 00:44 Debris of a plane belonging to Ukraine International Airlines, that crashed after taking off from Iran's Imam Khomeini airport, is…

Wildfire in the Sakha Republic, within the Arctic Circle, Russia on June 8, 2020.Image: Pierre (Flickr)Even by the Arctic’s increasing erratic standards, it’s been a weird spring and summer in Siberia. The region of the world that’s considered a bastion of frigid temperatures and frozen landscapes is buckling under the…