Section: Associated Press (USA)
Russian leader Putin heading to Japan for territorial talks
NAGATO, Japan (AP) — Vladimir Putin's first official visit to a G-7 country since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea is starting in somewhat customary fashion: He is arriving late…. …read more Source: Associated...
Dutch court: Crimea treasures must return to Ukraine
AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Dutch court has ruled that a trove of historical artefacts that is being held by an Amsterdam museum must be returned to Ukraine and not to four museums in Crimea that loaned out the objects for an exhibition in 2014…. …read more Source: Associated...
5 things to know ahead of the Abe-Putin hot springs summit
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will become on Thursday the first G-7 leader to allow an official visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin since Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014…. …read more Source: Associated...
Obama, Russia’s Putin speak at economic summit in Peru
LIMA, Peru (AP) — President Barack Obama spoke briefly with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Syria and Ukraine on Sunday as an economic summit got under way in Peru, in their first known conversation since Donald Trump was elected the next U.S. president…. …read more Source: Associated...
The Latest: Obama, Putin discuss Syria conflict, Ukraine
LIMA, Peru (AP) — The Latest on President Barack Obama's final official foreign trip (all times local):… …read more Source: Associated...
Thousands attend warlord’s funeral in Ukraine’s rebel east
MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands turned out Wednesday for the funeral of a senior commander of pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine, who was killed in a bomb blast…. …read more Source: Associated...
Ukrainian war prisoners languish in limbo on both sides
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Just three days after Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Lazarenko was taken prisoner in the war in Ukraine's east, a peace agreement was signed under which the sides agreed to an "all-for-all" prisoner exchange. A year and a half later, his wife still waits desperately for his return…. …read more...
Putin suspends weapons-grade plutonium deal with US
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin on Monday suspended a deal with the United States on the disposal of weapons-grade plutonium, once a symbol of U.S.-Russian rapprochement that has fallen apart amid tensions over Ukraine, Syria and other disputes…. …read more Source: Associated...
The Latest: UN secretary-general praises downed plane probe
NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands (AP) — The Latest on the probe into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014 (all times local):… …read more Source: Associated...
The Latest: US backs report that Russian missile downed MH17
NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands (AP) — The Latest on the probe into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014 (all times local):… …read more Source: Associated...
