Tensions between Russia and Ukraine escalated Wednesday as Ukraine stopped buying Russian natural gas and closed its airspace to its eastern neighbor.
Russia’s state-controlled gas company, Gazprom, said Wednesday that it stopped sending gas to Ukraine on Wednesday because Ukraine has not paid in advance for more deliveries.
The Indian army killed three militants and a civilian in the Kashmir region Wednesday in a gunbattle close to the militarized border with Pakistan.
An appeals court hearing has started in Romania for a former communist prison chief, who was sentenced in a lower court to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity.
Alexandru Visinescu, …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
