Новости за 23.05.2017

South Korea’s military fired warning shots at a suspected drone from North Korea on May 23 amid tension over Pyongyang’s latest missile test which drew international condemnation and a warning from China. Read more here.

Ukraine’s Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Kutovyi has resigned, according to his Facebook post. Read more here.

Former CIA director John Brennan said May 23 that he personally warned the head of Russia’s intelligence service last year that Moscow’s interference in the U.S. election would backfire and damage the country’s relationship with the United States. Read more here.

Hungary hosted the 2017 World Cup in military marksmanship; the competition among police and army shooters from various countries took place in Budapest, Ukraine Media Crisis Centre reports. Read more here.

The Verkhovna Rada passed a bill number 4541 in the second reading. The bill aims to cancel the recordation of the foreign investments. Two hundred thirty nine members of parliament supported this decision. Read more here.

Two-thirds of those caught up in the past week’s global ransomware attack were running Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system without the latest security updates, a survey for Reuters by security ratings firm BitSight found. Read more here.

The information disseminated in the media by Transparency International Board Head Jose Ugaz regarding the alleged absence of inquiry in Ukraine into former president Viktor Yanukovych is untrue and misleading, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine reported. “Moreover, such statements cannot but surprise me, considering that Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko during a speech on […]

Investigators hunted May 23 for possible accomplices of the suicide bomber who attacked an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, killing 22 people and sparking a stampede of young concertgoers, some still wearing the American pop star’s trademark kitten ears and holding pink balloons. Read more here.

Militants have used Grad rockets during an attack on the old part of Avdiyivka, according to Viacheslav Abroskin, deputy head of Ukraine’s National Police and Donetsk regional police chief. Grad shells hit house number 96 in Kolosov Street, Abroskin wrote on his Facebook page on May 23. “Luckily, no one was hurt,” he said. A […]

European Union ministers approved proposals on May 23 to make social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube tackle videos with hate speech on their platforms. The proposals, which would be the first legislation at EU level on the issue, still need to be agreed with the European Parliament before becoming law. But EU […]

MOSCOW – The number of Russians who deem Joseph Stalin’s repressions to be a political crime has notably declined over the past five years (from 51 percent in 2012 to 39 percent now), while the percentage of people totally ignorant of those events has doubled (from 6 percent to 13 percent), the Levada Analytical Center told Interfax. A quarter […]

Actor Sir Roger Moore, best known for playing James Bond, has died aged 89, his family has announced. Read more here.

BRUSSELS – Ribbon-cutting, jets overhead and a dinner in a new, billion-dollar headquarters: Donald Trump’s first meeting at NATO on May 25 is choreographed to impress a U.S. president who called the Western alliance “obsolete”. Read more here.

National oil and gas holding Naftogaz of Ukraine from June 1 will lower by 0.4 percent the minimum price of natural gas sold to industrial consumers – that is, from Hr 7,456.8 per 1,000 cubic meters in May to Hr 7,430.4 per 1,000 cubic meters, the company said in a statement. Read more here.

MANCHESTER, England — The Islamic State claimed May 23 one of its “soldiers” carried out a deadly blast in Manchester that killed at least 22 people, including teenagers and others streaming out of a pop concert. Read more here.

April 25-26, DLF attorneys-at-law and the Ukrainian Middle East Concord Company co-organized the Ukrainian Middle East Business Forum in Kuwait City, Kuwait. The event was held under the patronage of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of the State of Kuwait and the Embassy of Ukraine to the State of Kuwait with the aim of […]

Quotes from books or movies are staple fare for tattoos. But tastes change, and what if the day comes that the words don’t suit the person any more. Online magazine Platfor.ma has the answer: temporary tattoos with timeless lines from the works of Ukrainian poets. The magazine launched the project shortly before the Arsenal International Book Festival, […]

Twenty-two people have been killed and 59 injured in an explosion at the end of a concert by US singer Ariana Grande at Manchester Arena. Here is what we know so far.

President Trump asked two of the nation’s top intelligence officials in March to help him push back against an FBI investigation into possible coordination between his campaign and the Russian government, according to current and former officials. Read more here.

Turkey and Ukraine are moving step by step closer to signing a Free Trade Agreement, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister and Economic Development and Trade Minister Stepan Kubiv said on May 22. Read more here.

The Ukrainian Embassy in the UK informs that there are no data on the injured citizens of Ukraine as a result of the terrorist attack at the stadium in Manchester. “As of 07:20, information on the presence of Ukrainians affected by the terrorist attack in Manchester has not been confirmed. The police continue investigating the […]

On May 23 morning Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko expressed his condolences to the families and friends of those killed during the terrorist attack in Manchester. “I am shocked by the news of the terrorist attack in Manchester. I strongly condemn any acts of terrorism. My sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of the deceased,” […]

AVOLA, Sicily — It was a far cry from the rotting fishing boats and overstuffed dinghies that carry so many thousands of migrants precariously to Italian shores. Read more here.

Russia-backed separatists significantly increased their shelling in certain sectors of the contact line, using weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements. This is reported by the press center of the Ukrainian military headquarters. Read more here.

At least 22 people, including some children, were killed and 59 wounded when a suicide bomber struck as thousands of fans streamed out of a concert by U.S. singer Ariana Grande in the English city of Manchester on May 22. Read more here.