Ukraine

An outbreak of wildfires recently threatening the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, acquired on 12 April 2020, has been processed to show thermal anomalies and the burned area through the smoke. Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020), processed by ESA With an…

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is the only Senate Republican who was not invited to be a part of President Donald Trump’s bipartisan group of lawmakers focusing on re-opening the U.S. economy. Romney was also the sole Republican who voted to convict Trump during the impeachment trial earlier this year, over…

Prisoners of war (POWs), wearing protective masks amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, line up during the exchange of prisoners between Ukraine and the separatist republics near the Mayorsk crossing point in Donetsk Region, Ukraine April 16, 2020. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian government forces…

A designer from Ukraine has turned the Photoshop toolbar into a physical, custom keyboard and number pad that you can actually buy. It’s definitely not the most functional option available to photo editors, but there’s something charming about the idea. The keyboard first popped up on Yanko Design earlier today,…

The Nokia 8 Sirocco, which dates all the way back to 2018, is getting its Android 10 update. It's rolling out starting today, with a handful of folks in international markets getting it now, and a full rollout scheduled for April 20th, if nothing goes wrong. The Nokia 8 Sirocco…

(MOSCOW) — Russia’s foreign minister on Tuesday angrily rejected Western claims that Moscow has used the coronavirus crisis to expand its political influence, saying the world needs unity to surmount the pandemic. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that suggestions from some in the West that Russia had opaque motives for…

Derkach met with Giuliani when the former New York mayor and amateur sleuth traveled to Ukraine to help produce a documentary on the Bidens for the controversial pro-Trump TV network One America News, as Reuters reported. The Ukrainian lawmaker has pushed allegations of corruption involving former Vice President Joe Biden…

(BERLIN) — Two planeloads of Eastern European farmhands arrived Thursday in Berlin and Duesseldorf amid strict precautions to protect the country from the new coronavirus, as an ambitious German program to import thousands of seasonal agricultural workers got underway. Seasonal workers had been caught up in the country’s ban on…

from the just-more-retaliation-targeting-the-proper-channels dept No one really needs to wait until Friday afternoon to bury bad news. Not these days when bad news is all we seem to have, occasionally mixed with even worse news. But the White House remains the White House, so the time-honored process of dumping stuff…

After a recent bad experience in Ukraine, I returned to the UK upset, fed up and tired of things not going my way. I can’t get into details about what happened in Ukraine and although it was personal, it acted as a catalyst which then got me reflecting negatively on…