Section: KXAN (USA)
UN: deadly attack on Ukraine city could be war crime
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Deadly rocket attacks on the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol this weekend that “knowingly targeted civilians” violated international humanitarian law and could amount to war crimes, the U.N. political chief said Monday. Jeffrey Feltman told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that monitors from the Organization...
Russia rejects charges that it’s responsible for renewed Ukraine violence
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian leaders are responding defiantly to threats from Western leaders that Russia will face further punishment for the stepped-up fighting in eastern Ukraine over the weekend. In televised comments, President Vladimir Putin said it’s the Ukrainian leadership that should be held responsible for the violence. He accuses...
Who killed Litvinenko? Inquiry opens into ex-KGB man’s death
LONDON (AP) — As Alexander Litvinenko lay dying from radiation poisoning in 2006, he named the man he thought had ordered his murder: Russian President Vladimir Putin. More than eight years on and with the U.K.-Russia relations at their iciest since the Cold War, a public inquiry opens Tuesday into the killing of the Russian intelligence agent...
Russian security forces raid independent Crimean TV station
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian security forces raided independent Crimean television station ATR on Monday, seizing equipment and telling employees they were looking for archival footage of an anti-Russia protest last year, station officials said. In an emotional video posted on YouTube, deputy director Liliya Budzhurova said that armed men from...
Russian ruble tumbles after violent weekend in east Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian currency has fallen by more than 3 percent after escalated fighting in eastern Ukraine over the weekend. The ruble tumbled to 65.8 to the dollar early Monday from 63.7 on opening, after Western leaders announced that they were considering further punitive measures against Russia for what they say is its role in...
Malaysia Air site hacked by group claiming support for IS
HONG KONG (AP) — Malaysia Airlines officials were struggling Monday to restore the embattled carrier’s website after it was hacked by a group proclaiming support for the Islamic State group. The airline’s site was changed, at first with a message saying “404 – Plane Not Found” and that it was “Hacked by Cyber Caliphate,” with a photo...
UN Security Council faces Ukraine, Yemen emergency meetings
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Diplomats say the U.N. Security Council will hold emergency meetings Monday on the crises in Yemen and Ukraine. Council member Lithuania said Sunday that it had requested the open meeting on Ukraine. Both countries are former Soviet republics. Russia blocked a council statement Saturday that would have condemned the shelling...
Ukraine: Phone calls prove rebels attacked city, killed 30
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s leader says intercepted radio and telephone conversations prove that Russian-backed separatists were responsible for firing the rockets that pounded the southeastern city of Mariupol and killed at least 30 people. President Petro Poroshenko, who held an emergency meeting Sunday of his Security Council, said...
Obama ‘deeply concerned’ about latest violence in Ukraine
NEW DELHI (AP) — President Barack Obama says his administration is “deeply concerned” about the latest deadly flare-up in eastern Ukraine, but he says he won’t change how he’s handling the situation. Obama says he’ll keep trying to isolate Russia and he will examine options short of military conflict with Russia. Economic...
Russia blocks UN condemnation of shelling of Ukraine city
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia blocked a Western-backed U.N. Security Council statement Saturday that would have condemned indiscriminate shelling in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Mariupol that killed about 30 civilians and injured more than 90. The blocked statement, obtained by The Associated Press, called for “an immediate de-escalation...
