The festival was held at a national heritage park near Kyiv, featuring traditional attire, frenetic folk dancing, and bonfires. Thousands attended, dancing around a bonfire to bagpipe music. The park, showcasing reassembled traditional buildings from across Ukraine, provided a backdrop for the festivities. Director Oksana Poviake emphasized the importance of the event in helping people forget their troubles and reinforcing their cultural identity.
Japanese embassy in China lowers its flag to half mast to honour victim Hu Youping’s death
Dominique Antonio Richard Harris and Jarreth Plunkett, both 15, are accused of murdering 14-year-old Bobby Maher during fatal attack
Indonesian immigration authorities have detained 103 Taiwanese people after a raid at a villa on the resort island of Bali, officials said Friday. Godam said Indonesian authorities cannot charged them with conducting cybercrime.
Hu Youping, a bus attendant, tried to restrain an assailant at a bus stop outside a Japanese school.
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Thousands of mourners on Thursday attended the funeral of a popular Buddhist abbot shot dead by Myanmar security forces in an incident that drew a rare apology from the junta.He was shot dead on June 19 as he travelled by car through central Mandalay region, in an incident state media initially blamed on its opponents before the junta said its forces were responsible.
A former American Ninja Warrior champion has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for having a sexual relationship with a teenage girl. After prison, Andrew Drechsel, age 35, must additionally serve 15 years of supervised release and pay the victim $100,000 in restitution, Chief U.S. District Judge Renée M. Bumb ruled in …
In a pointed dissent, Justice Amy Coney Barrett skewered her fellow justices over their decision to narrow an obstruction charge used to prosecute scores of rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The Supreme Court voted 6-3 on Friday to side with Joseph Fischer, a former police officer accused of partaking in the…
Uvalde police officers had wanted to enter the classrooms once they had protective shields but Pete Arredondo’s decision ‘overrode’ that action
Two West Virginia parents are awaiting trial on more than a dozen charges after adopting four Black children and allegedly using them for “forced labor” on their farm, court documents show.
This is the moment a cow escaped from a neighbor and charged into a family's home in Gia Lai, Vietnam on June 17. The angry bovine hit several people during its rampage but was chased out of the house. Luckily, no one suffered any major injuries.
Two-thirds of president’s net worth is tied up in real estate after decades of buying and selling homes in Delaware and surrounding areas
All the puppies dumped in Fort Worth are healthy and have found new homes
Paying tribute to the 23-year-old, his family say they will "never be the same without him".
Ryan Malloy receives a suspended jail term for sending sexual images to the teenager over Snapchat.
Twelve-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was on a walk to the convenience store in Houston when she disappeared and was found dead in a creek earlier this month, police said.
A Land Rover owner has chained their car to a tree in London to prevent it being stolen.
