Section: KXAN (USA)
Eurovision winner greeted by ecstatic Portuguese nation
LISBON (AP) — Eurovision winner Salvador Sobral was greeted as a national hero upon his return home to Portugal on Sunday, a day after winning the song contest in Ukraine’s capital. The 27-year-old Sobral was a virtual unknown before his triumph in Kiev, but around 2,000 jubilant fans cheered his arrival at Lisbon’s airport. “Without...
What are cell site simulators? And how do they work?
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The formidable surveillance power of cell site simulators has put them at the forefront of privacy debates in the U.S. and Europe. Now The Associated Press has found evidence that the devices are at work sending threatening text messages to the soldiers fighting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. So what are cell...
‘You’re just meat’ – Ukrainian soldiers get chilling texts
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The Associated Press has found that Ukrainian soldiers are being bombarded by text messages likely dispatched by cell site simulators. Some are crude threats, while others play on allegations that Ukraine’s billionaire president, Petro Poroshenko, sometimes nicknamed Parasha, is lining his pockets as soldiers fight in...
50 arrested in Ukraine Victory Day clashes
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Police in Ukraine say about 50 people have been arrested after clashes involving nationalists angry with demonstrators observing Victory Day, the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. Several thousand people took part in a march Tuesday in the capital, Kiev, to honor Red Army soldiers who fought the Nazis and seized...
EU Brexit chief says UK must settle account of what it owes
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator insisted Wednesday that Britain’s accounts must be settled before any talks on its future trade relationship with the EU can take place, as he warned that time is running out to seal a deal by 2019. Unveiling the European Commission’s negotiating mandate on...
Italian prosecutor: no NGOs-migrant smuggler links emerge
ROME (AP) — A prosecutor based in Sicily told Italian senators Tuesday his office has found no links or contacts between migrant smugglers and humanitarian organizations operating rescue boats in the Mediterranean. Last month, another Sicilian prosecutor raised alarm by saying in interviews he has evidence that some NGOs, established specifically...
What on Earth might a Trump-Kim Jong Un meeting look like?
BANGKOK (AP) — In one corner: the unpredictable dictator, the third-generation family ruler whose nation has a seven-decade reputation of being erratic, quick to take umbrage and insistent that it is powerful enough to upend the planet. In the other corner: a sandpaper-tongued American president like no other, barely past his first 100 days as...
The Latest: Moscow marches invoke Soviet-era nostalgia
ISTANBUL (AP) — The Latest on May Day events around the world (all times local): 4:55 p.m. Two May Day marches have been held in Moscow, both drawing from nostalgia for Soviet times. First, a crowd that police estimated at about 130,000 people paraded across the cobblestones of Red Square, the site of Soviet-era May Day celebrations. The...
The Latest: Fight time for Joshua and Klitschko
LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the Anthony Joshua-Wvladimir Klitschko heavyweight title fight in Wembley Stadium. (all times local): 9:55 p.m. The British and Ukrainian national anthems out of the way, Wladimir Klitschko and Anthony Joshua are about to get it on. Joshua kept Klitschko cooling in the ring while making a theatrical entrance, then...
Russian navy ship sinks in Black Sea, all 78 crew rescued
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian naval reconnaissance ship sank Thursday after colliding with a freighter off Istanbul, but all crew members were rescued, the Defense Ministry said. Turkey’s coastal safety authority said all 78 personnel from the Russian frigate Liman were safe, as were all crew aboard the freighter, the Togo-flagged Youzarsif H....
