Section: KXAN (USA)
Report suggests torture widespread in war-torn Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) — A new report suggests that the detention and torture of civilians has become common in Ukraine, which has been torn by a separatist war in the east. The joint report released on Thursday by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch says both the Ukrainian government and Russia-backed separatists have committed enforced...
Prominent journalist killed in car bombing in Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent journalist has been killed in a car bombing in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. The country’s top online publication Ukrainska Pravda said on Wednesday its top journalist Pavel Sheremet died in an explosion as he got into his car to drive to work in the morning. The publication said the car was owned by its...
Russian stars who could miss the Rio Olympics
MOSCOW (AP) — The International Olympic Committee says it is exploring the legal options for a possible ban of the entire Russian team from next month’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro as a result of the country’s repeated doping scandals. Russia finished fourth in the gold medal table at the 2012 Olympics in London and third in the...
Women in Russia, Ukraine unite online against sex abuse
MOSCOW (AP) — Women across Russia and Ukraine are uniting and speaking out — for once, not about the tensions between their two nations, nor the Russia-backed separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine — but about their experiences of rape and sexual violence. Victoria Ivleva was just 20 years old when she was raped by a stranger just steps from her...
Berkeley student killed in Nice honored at campus vigil
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A University of California, Berkeley student who was killed in last week’s Bastille Day truck attack in France was remembered Monday as a charismatic and engaged member of the campus community who would not want his death to inspire revenge. Several hundred people, including the university’s chancellor and the...
The Latest: Vigil honors Berkeley student slain in France
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a vigil held for a University of California, Berkeley student who was among 84 people killed in a terror attack in Nice, France (all times local): 6:25 p.m. A University of California, Berkeley student killed last week in a truck rampage in France is being remembered as a charismatic and inspirational part of...
The Nice victims: 2 of 4 sisters on holiday die in attack
The terror attack on a joyous Bastille Day crowd waiting to watch fireworks in Nice, France, indiscriminately killed dozens of people, including children. The driver of a truck slammed into the festivities Thursday taking the lives of 84 people, including six members of the same family. Among those who have been identified were Americans,...
The Nice victims: A boy, a police officer, 6 family members
The terror attack on a festive Bastille Day crowd in France indiscriminately killed locals and foreigners alike, men, women and children. The driver of a truck slammed into the festivities Thursday taking the lives of 84 people, including six from the same family. Among those who’ve been identified were Americans, Germans, Ukrainians, Swiss...
UN report blasts both sides in Ukraine conflict
MOSCOW (AP) — A report from the United Nations’ human rights arm has strongly criticized both sides in Ukraine’s fighting for the killing of civilians in indiscriminate shelling, as well as summary executions of both combatants and civilians. The report released Thursday by the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights office...
IOC strips 2012 bronze medal from Ukrainian weightlifter
LONDON (AP) — A Ukrainian weightlifter was stripped of her bronze medal from the 2012 London Olympics on Wednesday, the first athlete formally disqualified by the IOC after the retesting of doping samples from the past two Summer Games. Yulia Kalina, who finished third in the 58-kilogram division in London, tested positive for the steroid...
