Section: News & Summaries
ISIS leader `dead` in U.S.-led air strike – media
An Islamic State-linked news agency has claimed that the terror boss was ”killed by coalition air strikes on Raqqa on the fifth day of Ramadan,” according to Mirror.Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – the secretive leader of Islamic State – has been killed, according to reports, Mirror.co.uk reports.Born in 1971 in Samarra, Iraq, those who knew al-Baghdadi as...
Sweden wants tangible results from Ukraine`s reforms
Swedish Minister for Enterprise and Innovation Mikael Damberg says that Sweden as the fourth largest donor of Ukraine wants to see tangible results of the reforms being implemented in the country.”We`re proud that we`re the fourth largest bilateral donor in the Ukrainian process of reforms. That is why we insist on concrete results of the...
Investors from Austria, Hungary, India, Japan eyeing Ukraine`s oblenergos
Chief of the State Property Fund (SPF) Ihor Bilous says that investors from Austria, Hungary, India and Japan are interested in buying Ukrainian regional power distribution companies (oblenergos).Namely, these are 70% of shares in Khmelnytskoblenergo, 70% of shares in Mykolaivoblenergo, 65% of shares in Kharkivoblenergo, 50.9% of shares in...
Germany to give EUR 6 mln for Donbas residents` food in 2016-2017
Germanys` federal government will allocate EUR 6 million for the implementation of humanitarian projects in 2016-2017 under a UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) humanitarian program aimed at helping people affected by war in Donbas, according to the press office of Germany`s Embassy in Ukraine.The German government is set to boost support...
Poroshenko tweets Soloshenko, Afanasyev leaving for Ukraine, swap over
Ukrainian citizens Yuriy Soloshenko and Hennadiy Afanasyev, who were illegally imprisoned in Russia, have been swapped and are leaving for Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko`s tweet.”Yuriy Soloshenko and Hennadiy Afanasyev are on board the Ukrainian plane, departing from Moscow for Ukraine,” Poroshenko wrote on Twitter on...
UEFA sanctions Russia: EUR 150,000 fine, suspended disqualification
The independent UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body (CEDB) met in Paris on Tuesday to deal with the disciplinary proceedings opened against the Russian Football Union (RFU) following the incidents that occurred inside the Stade Velodrome in Marseille, at the UEFA EURO 2016 match against England on June 11 (1-1), according to an UEFA...
Ukraine`s customs find excess UAH 1.3 bln for road repairs
Four Ukrainian customs houses involved in a pilot excess revenue distribution project launched in September 2015 have channeled UAH 1.3 billion into infrastructure development in their regions since then, according to the Ukrainian State Fiscal Service (SFS), which incorporates the customs.”During the period from September 2015 through May 2016...
Kyiv`s health sector in crisis: Lack of funds, retiree doctors, no reform
Chairperson of Kyiv`s municipal union of health workers Larysa Kanarovska says that her organization is concerned about the state of the municipal health sector due to low funding, according to an UNIAN correspondent.”We`ve got 2.5% instead of 5% of gross national income this year. Our funding has been reduced by UAH 2.5 billion,” she said at a...
France wants to deport almost 50 Russian soccer fans
France wants to deport almost 50 Russian soccer fans, Alexander Shprygin, the head of a Russian supporters` group, said on Tuesday, saying French riot police had stopped a bus carrying fans in Cannes who were on their way to Lille, Reuters reports.”They want to deport almost 50 people including women who did not take part in anything,” Shprygin,...
Ukravtodor calls tender to hire independent road repairs controller
The State Agency of Automobile Roads (Ukravtodor) has announced a tender to select a company that will be tasked with independent inspection of the quality of road repairs in Ukraine.The expected cost of services for the supervision of road construction, as well as services of technical testing and analysis of work performed is estimated at UAH...