Section: KXAN (USA)
Ukraine’s ousted president testifies in court
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine’s ousted president has testified in the trial of five former special forces policemen charged with fatally shooting scores of demonstrators, and denied giving orders for them to shoot at the protesters. Over three days in February 2014, 72 protesters died on the Maidan square, most shot by police or snipers. There were...
Montenegrin lawmakers set to approve new pro-NATO government
PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegrin lawmakers were set Monday to swear in a pro-NATO government amid political tensions following an alleged foiled election-day coup orchestrated by Russian nationalists to derail the Balkan country’s bid to join the alliance. Prime Minister-designate Dusko Markovic pledged that his Cabinet would wrap...
French conservatives voting to choose presidential nominee
PARIS (AP) — French conservatives on Sunday are choosing their nominee for next year’s vital presidential election from among two former prime ministers with deep experience in government and differing views on how to prevent more terror attacks on French soil. The contenders in the conservative’s primary runoff — Francois Fillon, 62,...
Russia protests planned Ukraine missile training over Crimea
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s defense ministry on Friday presented the Ukrainian military attaché with a note of protest in reaction to Ukraine’s plans to conduct training launches of missiles over Crimea next week. Russian aviation officials said earlier on Friday that Ukraine had informed them of the upcoming launches over Crimea. Russia...
Ukraine says it’s ready to resume gas purchases from Russia
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine’s state-owned energy company says it’s ready to resume gas purchases from Russia. The statement was released several hours after the Russian energy minister and the European Union’s energy chief met for talks in Moscow on Friday and said representatives of the EU, Russia and Ukraine could get together next...
PSCE reports spike in Ukraine cease-fire violations
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The international monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine says it has recorded a sharp rise in cease-fire violations following several days of lower activity. The monitoring mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Thursday that more than 460 explosions were recorded in the Donetsk region in the...
Ukraine appoints young woman to lead purge of bureaucrats
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Ukraine’s justice minister has appointed a 23-year-old law graduate to lead a campaign to purge officials tainted by corruption of the ousted regime, a second woman in her early 20s with little experience appointed for a top job in the past week. The “lustration” — the term in Eastern Europe for a post-communist...
2012 Olympic women’s steeplechase champ fails doping retest
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Yulia Zaripova, the Russian gold medalist in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase at the 2012 London Olympics, was among 12 more athletes sanctioned Monday after testing positive in a reanalysis of their doping samples. Zaripova was among seven medalists — all from countries of the former Soviet Union —...
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): 12:10 p.m. The White House says President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Syria and Ukraine during a four-minute conversation at the start of a summit in Peru. A White House description of the meeting says...
Report: German Chancellor Merkel’s to seek fourth term
BERLIN (AP) — Angela Merkel will seek a fourth term as Germany’s chancellor in general elections next year, the German news agency dpa reported Sunday. Dpa, citing sources at the Berlin headquarters of Merkel’s Christian Democrat party, reported that the 62-year-old chancellor also will run to be re-elected as the party’s...
