UKRAINE

French President Emmanuel Macron said the months of "yellow vest" protests have taught him "to listen to people much better."

A large number of police cars and armed personnel carriers were at the scene, while special forces and snipers guarded the bridge after the man used his vehicle to block the bridge across the Dnipro river

Kingsley Coman scored again as France cruised past Andorra

Russia's annexation of Crimea and its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine are unresolved issues

Russia and Ukraine made a long-awaited swap of 70 prisoners on Saturday, a deal hailed as a first step towards ending five years of tensions and conflict.Two planes carrying 35 prisoners from each side landed simultaneously in Moscow and Kiev, where the passengers emerged under sunny skies."We have taken the first step," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on the tarmac after greeting and hugging former detainees. "We have to take all the steps to finish this horrible war."

President Volodymyr Zelensky, pictured in August 2019, has enjoyed a strong political mandate to pursue a reform agenda, Fitch said in its report

'Great friends'

Visitors have been known to take objects out of the exclusion zone as souvenirs, according to Oleksandr Syrota, head of the Chernobyl information centre

Lightweight world champion Vasyl Lomachenko dreams to be like Manny Pacquiao but chuckled over talks of possible fight.

Map showing the start of the German invasion of Poland in 1939.

Boxing champ turned entrepreneur Mike Tyson is consistent in saying that Ukraine’s Lomachenko is the best fighter in the world.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda (r) his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky as a president 'who wants his country to be part of the free world'

Perry said that the Trump administration would likely apply stricter sanctions on Russia over the 2014 Crimea annexation while at a meeting in Warsaw, Poland with Ukrainian and Polish leaders.

Measles cases are skyrocketing in Europe and the disease is surging in four countries previously considered to have eliminated it, including the UK, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Thursday, urging countries to step up vaccination efforts."Re-establishment of measles transmission is concerning. If high immunisation coverage is not achieved and sustained in every community, both children and adults will suffer unnecessarily and some will tragically die," warned Gunter Pfaff, the head of the WHO's European Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination.

Swiss star Roger Federer celebrates a second-round victory over Bosnian Damir Dzumhur on Wednesday at the US Open

As the trade war rages, U.S. national security adviser John Bolton has warned Ukraine of Chinese influence while on a visit to Kiev.

A MC-21 prototype made its maiden flight in 2017 but serial manufacturing has been delayed, in part due to US sanctions affecting the production of its carbon composite wings

Trump let slip he'd like to stage the 2020 G7 summit at one of his own golf resorts, the Doral, near Miami

Serena Williams, right, and Maria Sharapova will meet in a first-round match next week at the US Open

Macron and Putin agree there is a chance for peace in eastern Ukriane but clashed over Syria's civil war

U.S. and Canadian jets intercepted two Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers over Beaufort Sea. Moscow said the jets were on a patrol mission over international waters.