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Mike Pompeo accuses NPR host he launched f-word tirade at of 'LYING' to him

Pompeo accused All Things Considered Mary Louie Kelly of breaking an 'off the record agreement' after she revealed he swore and said: 'Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?'




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Senators are baffled by half-empty spectator gallery at impeachment trial

US Senators on both sides of the aisle were surprised the chamber's spectator gallery was at least half-empty throughout the first week on President Donald Trump's ongoing impeachment trial.




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Trump's defense must include Joe and Hunter Biden's Ukraine dealings, the president's lawyer claims 

Former US VP Joe Biden, his son Hunter and their work in the Ukraine is 'relevant evidence' in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, one of the president's defense lawyers claim. 




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Full video is released showing Donald Trump's order to fire Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch

The video was made during a fundraiser dinner on April 30, 2018 at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC and released on Saturday by an attorney for Lev Parnas,




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Family of Welsh journalist blast new movie 'Mr Jones' for showing him resorting to CANNIBALISM

The film 'Mr Jones' which is due to be released on February 7 shows Jones - played by James Norton - eating the remains of a young boy. But Jones's great-nephew said this is completely false.




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I NEVER discussed military aid to Ukraine with Donald Trump claims Rudy Giuliani

Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani tore into former security advisor John Bolton as a 'swamp creature' and a 'back stabber' as senators weigh calling Bolton as a witness.




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Bolton urged Dems to probe Marie Yovanovitch's firing in intervention two weeks after he left WH

John Bolton warned the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee shortly after his departure in September that former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch's ousting was 'improper.'




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Donald Trump's defense attorney Alan Dershowitz scrambles his own defense quid pro quo argument

Donald Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz was under fire for saying if the president does things that will help him get elected 'in the public interest' it isn't impeachable.




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New John Bolton bombshell emerges as Republicans get the votes to block witnesses

John Bolton's book contains another revelation about the Ukraine affair that emerged minutes before the Senate was to start debating whether to call impeachment witnesses.




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Senate REJECTS calling witnesses to Donald Trump's impeachment trial trial

The Senate voted to reject a Democratic call to hear from witnesses at President Trump's impeachment trial - but took a long pause and agreed to a final vote at 4pm on Wednesday.




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US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch retires from the State Department

Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, has announced her retirement from the State Department on Friday evening. She was a key witness in the impeachment inquiry.




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Ted Cruz appears to mock Nancy Pelosi's famous handclap as Republicans vote against witnesses

The Texas senator, 49, was seen mimicking the clap shortly as he spoke with other Republican, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, before the vote was called around 5 pm.




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Fungi that EATS radiation could be used like a 'sun block' for humans to protect against deadly rays

In 1991, five years after the disaster which rocked Ukraine, the black fungi was found sprouting up the walls of the abandoned reactor which had been flooded with gamma.




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Aussie university student, 21, trapped in Wuhan says it's like living in an 'apocalyptic wasteland'

Lyubov Ahuja has spent the past year-and-a-half in Wuhan studying a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the Tongji Medical College.




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Republican senators demand Secret Service turn over records of Hunter Biden's international travel

Sens. Charles Grassley and Ron Johnston released a letter to the Secret Service seeking information on Hunter Biden after the Senate acquitted Trump of abuse of power.




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Lindsey Graham goes after media for not scrutinizing Joe and Hunter Biden enough during impeachment

Lindsey Graham took a hit at the press Sunday, claiming media outlets didn't scrutinize Joe and Hunter Biden enough for potential corruption in Ukraine.




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Horrifying moment pram is sent flying at pedestrian crossing

Dashcam footage filmed at a pedestrian crossing showed the driver of a ZAZ Slavuta smashing into the pram in the city of Energodar last Friday.




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Aston Villa striker Louie Barry scores for England Under 17s following £3m move from Barcelona

Aston Villa's £3million signing from Barcelona Louie Barry was on the scoresheet again after his heroics against Russia on Saturday as England U17s beat Ukraine 4-0 on Monday.




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Trump budget chief says he is 'happy' to work with investigators after scathing GAO report

White House acting budget chief Russell Vought said he was 'happy to work with' Congress after a scathing GAO report found the administration violated the law for holding up funds.




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Boy, two, chokes to death on his own blood at Ukrainian hospital

Maksim Mygovych was taken to hospital last week in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev after swallowing a piece of plastic, but died after a camera inserted down his throat punctured his oesophagus.




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Shocking moment three Ukrainian men are seriously hurt when one sets off a GRENADE in their car

The moment of the explosion was caught on a CCTV camera in Lelyaky, Vinnytsia. The three men were put into intensive care and had operations to remove shrapnel.




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Ten of the world's lesser-known romantic places to celebrate Valentine's Day from Ukraine to Mexico

If you don't want to mark your match-up the same way as every other loved-up pair on Valentine's Day, pay close attention. Here we've rounded up ten lesser-known places linked to love around the globe.




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Trump backtracks as he ADMITS sending Giuliani to Ukraine to investigate his political rivals

President Trump was asked on Geraldo Rivera's podcast Thursday, 'Was it strange to send Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine, your personal lawyer?' Trump replied: 'No, not at all.'




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Eight-year-old girl in Ukraine becomes world's youngest person to die of OLD AGE

Anna Sakidon's biological age was nearer to 80 and she weighed just 17lbs when she died in Ukraine. She suffered from Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome which only affects 160 people.




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Angry mob attacks coronavirus evacuees and starts a riot in Ukraine

Protesters lit fires and hurled rocks as six buses carrying evacuees from Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, drove to the hospital in Novi Sanzhary.




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Pensioner, 83, comes back to life ten hours after she was declared dead in Ukraine

Ksenia Didukh, 83, was pronounced dead in Stryzhavka, west Ukraine, after medics were called and found her without a pulse, but was rushed to hospital ten hours later after showing signs of life.




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Don't Tell The Bride: Angry bride threatens to call off her authentic Ukrainian wedding

Bride-to-be Anna, 30, from Ukraine, is left in tears after discovering her groom Andy, 30, from Jersey, has bought her a £150 wedding gown that's falling apart in Don't Tell The Bride.




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Donald Trump promises to hammer Joe Biden over his Ukraine business dealings if he wins nomination

President Trump said he would use recent news a Ukrainian court ordered an investigation into Joe Biden as ammunition if he were to become the Democrat presidential candidate.




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Girl, ten, is crushed to death when 440lb wooden sculpture topples onto her

Anna Zhdan was left with a broken skull after the chainsaw-carved statue of a bear and a child toppled onto her in Zaporizhia, Ukraine. Anna was rushed to hospital but died the following morning.




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Ex-Miss World slams equalities watchdog for dropping her bid to change law

Veronika Didusenko, 24, was crowned Miss Ukraine in 2018 but was stripped of her title four days later after it was revealed she was divorced and had a four-year-old son.




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Connecticut man is charged with threatening to murder Adam Schiff

Robert Phelps, 62, sent the message through the Californian Democratic representatives' schedule-a-meeting website. He told police he sent the message to 'defend' his president.




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Europe puts 100million on lockdown: Continent's coronavirus death toll soars towards 2,000

Coronavirus hysteria in Europe continues as Poland's shut frontiers (pictured) cause huge traffic jams in Germany - while Serbia and Slovakia went into lockdown and Portugal closed its border.




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Coronavirus: Zinchenko slams UK response but praises Manchester City for looking after players

Oleksandr Zinchenko has criticised Britain's response to the coronavirus crisis and given an insight into how Manchester City players are shielding themselves from the pandemic.




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Ex-Ukraine forward Andriy Shevchenko compares coronavirus pandemic to Chernobyl nuclear disaster

Former AC Milan striker Andriy Shevchenko has compared the coronavirus pandemic to the Chernobyl disaster which occurred in his homeland of Ukraine in 1986. 




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Mother dies from coronavirus hours after giving birth to her first child in Ukrainian hospital 

Woman, named only as Galina, fell sick with coronavirus after a 19-day stay at a perinatal unit in Ukraine, gave birth to a baby girl, was rushed to intensive care, but died just hours later.




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Firefighters battle huge forest blaze near Chernobyl nuclear plant

Ukraine's emergency services ministry scrambled 130 firefighters and two planes to tackle the blaze which ignited yesterday.




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Bill Barr defends Donald Trump firing the intelligence IG

Attorney General Bill Barr has backed up President Donald Trump's controversial decision to fire the IG for the intelligence community, Michael Atkinson.




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Raging forest infernos in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone are now 'close' to exploded nuclear reactor

Wildfires burning through radioactive forests in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine are getting ever closer to the exploded nuclear reactor (pictured, forest fires in the famed Exclusion Zone).




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Pelosi calls Trump's freeze on WHO cash 'illegal' and vows to 'swiftly challenge' the move

Nancy Pelosi called President Trump's decision to cut off funding to the World Health Organization 'illegal' and said it would be 'swiftly challenged' by Congressional Democrats.




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'Ukrainian cannibal killed his girlfriend and fried her legs after getting hungry while boozing'

The cannibal, identified only as Oleksandr (pictured with his girlfriend), is said to have been frying and eating his victim's legs when police raided his house in the city of Kryvyi Rih.




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Foreign tourists are discovered hiding in a cave in India after running out of money during lockdown

The four men and two women - from France, the United States, Ukraine, Turkey and Nepal - had been living in the cave near Rishikesh in Uttarakhand state since March 24.




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Ukrainians cheat death when apartment block almost collapses on them

Two pedestrians were forced to run for their lives as an apartment building suddenly collapsed into the street in the city of Odessa, Ukraine, shortly after restoration crews started work on it.




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Former EU ambassador Gordon Sondland gets coronavirus bailout for his hotel chain 

Provenance Hotels, the hotel chain Sondland founded, received a Paycheck Protection Program loan, a spokeswoman said. The chain has more than a dozen properties.




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Woman digs herself out of grave after being 'tortured and buried alive by neighbours' in Ukraine

Nina Rudchenko, 57, was attacked in Maryanske, Ukraine, by two brothers aged 27 and 30. She was dragged to a cemetery before being forced to dig her own grave (pictured), which she was buried in.




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Girl, six, freezes to death as she walked home in Ukraine

Milena Sheveleva (pictured) was found dead after losing her glasses and getting soaked through with rain near the village of Sosnivka on Sunday.




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Hannah Green takes three-shot lead at Women's PGA Championship in Minnesota  

Hannah Green continued her fine form with a second-round 69 to hold a three-shot lead at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship in Minnesota.




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Hannah Green one shot clear of Ariya Jutanugarn entering final round of Women's PGA Championship

Hannah Green will take a one-shot lead into the final round of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship as she goes in search of her first LPGA title.




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McIlroy insists he wouldn't trade his record this season with Koepka's

Rory McIlroy wouldn't trade his season for that of world No 1 Brooks Koepka, who defended the US PGA Championship and finished runner-up at the Masters and US Open.




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Justin Rose accuses golf rulers cash ahead of majors

'It's just too condensed,' said Rose, the first of the big names to criticise the decision to cram all four majors into a 13-week spell by moving the US PGA Championship from August to May.




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My magical moments at the majors: Tiger Woods' Masters victory belongs on the silver screen

This was a major season that had it all. From Tiger Woods's remarkable comeback to Ireland's Portrush party of all parties, here are the biggest and best of this Grand Slam season.