Eastern Europe

The PR cat-astrophe faced by Aeroflot after the airline banned a man from travelling with his cat because it was too heavy, continues to find new lives, as memesmiths flood social media with litters of feline aviators....

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Nov. 15 released a memorandum of an April telephone conversation he had with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine that differed from a summary of the call released by the White House months ago. Read more here. The...

Former UFC champion Chuck Liddell says that Mike Tyson would have little chance against him in a street fight if the two superstars of their respective sports ever tangled on the streets....

However, Thomas Greminger noted that this progress should not be overestimated, stressing that it only represents one of the stages of regulation...

La Liga have been forced to abandon plans for a December showcase league game between Villarreal and Atletico Madrid in Miami after the league's plans were blocked by the Spanish Football Association....

The French presidency says Paris will host a four-way summit next month seeking to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Read more here. The post RFE/RL: Putin, Zelensky to meet next month to discuss Ukraine conflict appeared first on KyivPost ....

The fate of a deal to exchange three Taliban prisoners held in Afghanistan for two Western hostages the militant group is holding remained unclear, three days after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced the plan....

WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump launched a Twitter attack on a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine on Nov. 15 while she was testifying to an impeachment hearing in Congress, in an extraordinary moment that Democrats said amounts to witness intimidati...

At least two Ukrainian servicemen were killed and four injured in an explosion at a large military ammunition depot in the city of Balakliya in Kharkiv Oblast, some 460 kilometers southeast of Kyiv, Ukraine's General Staff of the Armed Forces reported...

Impeachment testimony day two: Marie Yovanovitch Read our coverage of former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch's public testimony before the U.S. House Intelligence Committee on Nov. 15. SBU arrests ISIS warlord in Kyiv Ukraine's securi...

President Trump on Nov. 15 released the summary transcript of his April congratulatory call with Ukraine's president-elect, the latest salvo in the White House effort to blunt Democratic allegations that Trump abused his power by pressuring a foreign ...

Libyan Official Urges New US Intervention After Russians Seen "On Front Lines" A new report in Axios suggests that Russia has significantly increased its presence in war-torn Libya , perhaps seeking to clean up the mess left in the wake of the US-...

Turkish presidential spokesman also said that Anraka and Washington had begun to develop a mechanism to expose S-400's impacts on the F-35 fifth-generation fighter jets...

Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating whether Rudy Giuliani stood to personally profit from a Ukrainian natural-gas business pushed by two associates who also aided his efforts there to launch investigations that could benefit President Trump,...

Police and Border Guard (PPA) personnel seized over 60 cannabis plants and over 600 seedlings following a raid at a cannabis farm in Tallinn, Baltic News Service reports....

The government will soon be passing legislation that will allow a return of the prepaid special......

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a bill on unbundling of activities on transportation of natural gas into law, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Yulia Kovaliv has said....

The meeting between the leaders of Ukraine, Germany, France and Russia in the Normandy format will take place on December 9...

Trump Slams "Biggest Double Standard In History" After Roger Stone Found Guilty Of Lying President Trump weighed in on Roger Stone's Friday conviction, tweeting: "So they now convict Roger Stone of lying and want to jail him for many years...

Stone was earlier accused of lying to Congress about his ties to the WikiLeaks website in relation to its publication of files from the servers of the Democratic National Committee....

On Friday, Nov. 15, in addition to several other major topics, the papers in Estonia also wrote about a Finnish-hosted public sauna day in Narva, new dog parks planned for the city of Prnu, and the theme for next year's popular Viljandi Folk....

Jack Ma Warns Trade War Could Last 20 Years Amid Threats Globalization Has Peaked Get ready for two decades of a US-China trade war and the peak of globalization, Jack Ma, the co-founder and former chairman of Alibaba Group, told Bloomberg TV Thursday eve...

BUCHAREST (Romania), November 15 (SeeNews) - Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) indices ended higher on Friday in lower turnover.The total equity turnover of t...

Venice has been struck by the highest tide in 50 years this week, with the acqua alta, or high water, hitting nearly 1.9 meters on November 13...

On October 27, US President Donald Trump said that al-Baghdadi had been killed during a special operation in Syria's Idlib Governorate...

Earlier, the office of French President Emmanuel Macron informed that the summit would take place on December 9 in Paris...

KIEV (Sputnik) - According to the security service, the commander, who held the post of deputy military amir in Daesh since 2013, illegally arrived in Ukraine using a fake passport in 2018 and continued to coordinate the activities of Daesh forces....

The Normandy Four negotiations to resolve Russia's war in eastern Ukraine will resume on Dec. 9, the French presidential administration announced on Nov. 15. The group — which includes Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia — will meet face-t...

Beneath the grisly details of graduate student Anastasia Yeshchenko's killing lies a less tabloid-friendly tale -- a seemingly never-ending story about the impunity of people who hold power in Russia. Other chapters include the jailhouse death of whis...

The other BRICS leaders shared Putin's concern over the issue...

Afghans who can't afford doctors, can't reach one easily, or don't trust them often opt for a visit to a bonesetter. These traditional practitioners offer low-cost treatment for breaks, sprains, and other injuries. But some doctors say patient...

Tom Lee: Like FAANG Stocks, Bitcoin Will Hit $25K Due To "Network Value" Authored by Marie Huillet via CoinTelegraph.com, Fundstrat's Tom Lee believes Bitcoin ( BTC ) will accrue price value following a similar logic to the Silicon Valley tech...

Pope Francis has condemned an apparent resurgence of Nazism by slamming politicians who rage against "Jews, gypsies and people of homosexual orientation."...

A Normandy Format summit will be held on December 9, the Office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reported on the results of his conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron....

The now-abandoned Route 46 was part of the Third Reich's ambitious project aimed at linking the country's north with Lake Constance on its southern border. However, the war and the Nazis' defeat put an end to the plan. The discussion about the...

There will be changes in the opening hours of Athens' museums this Sunday, November 17, due to......

The French presidency says Paris will host a four-way summit next month seeking to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine....

Introducing a digital tax in Estonia could be discussed in the future, policymakers of the Center Party said during a discussion of the party's tax package on Friday....

Stocks Are Soaring As Bond Yields & The Dollar Dump US equity markets continue to melt-up this morning, extending gains from Kudlow's trade deal comments last night... But bonds ain't buying it... Source: Bloomberg And the dollar is dumping to one...

Instead of a traditional, routine funeral, some Russians are choosing to check out in their own style, from blinging caskets to digitized grave sites....

The lawyer of a German citizen alleges that her client, although he was conned and detained without grounds several times, is unfairly targeted in a criminal investigation in Moldova. In an IPN press conference, lawyer Angela Procopciuc said that her clie...

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The House is holding its second public hearing with former US envoy to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch centring around her ouster which, according to her, is pertinent to the impeachment probe against Trump....

LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), November 15 (SeeNews) Slovenian reinsurer Sava Re [LJE:POSR] posted the biggest gains among the blue-chip companies on the Lj...

Aide to the Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District believes taht "this is a story about friendship and humanity"...

The White House on Nov. 15 released its transcript of President Donald Trump's April 21 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulating him on his election. Here's a timeline of key events between that first call between the ...

Jeanine Anez, who declared herself the interim president on 12 November after Evo Morales and all other top officials resigned, earlier in the day said that Mexico, which has granted political shelter to the former head of state, should urge him to respec...

It's Friday evening and many people probably want to go out and have some fun, whereas others prefer an idler pastime. This little otter looks like it prefers to stay inside and master the art of doing nothing....

Credit Suisse To Slash Investment Banker Bonuses Due To "Unsatisfactory" Performance Back in the day, investment bankers had to decide: hand over a good 10-15 years of your life, working insane 110+ hour weeks in the office, but get paid very well...

The first meeting of the Chiinu City Council lasted more than seven hours. The councilors received their IDs of local officials, they formed the groups within the CMC and formed the profile committees. After several discussions and breaks, it was decided ...