Section: KXAN (USA)
Kerry in Ukraine to offer help from United States
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Ukraine aiming to reassure the former Soviet republic that the United States stands by it in its territorial disputes with Russia. Kerry arrived in Kiev on Thursday, a day after making a similar visit to Tbilisi, where he signed an agreement to boost U.S.-Georgia military cooperation,...
Ukraine’s Savchenko thanks Poles for helping her freedom
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Ukrainian pilot and lawmaker Nadiya Savchenko has thanked Poland for its support in obtaining her release after almost two years of Russian captivity. Savchenko, 35, attended a session of Poland’s Parliament in Warsaw on Thursday and met with Deputy Parliament Speaker Ryszard Terlecki and other lawmakers. She told...
Merkel says Eastern European countries unsettled by Russia
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel says that Russia’s conflict with Ukraine has deeply unsettled NATO’s Eastern European member states and that the Baltic states and Poland therefore “need a clear reassurance by the alliance.” The chancellor addressed German Parliament ahead of the NATO summit on Thursday. Merkel also said that...
AP Interview: NATO to end central Europe’s fears of Russia
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Decisions to be approved at this week’s NATO summit in Warsaw will build a deterrence force that should make Russia “forget about threatening Poland” and other nations, Poland’s defense minister said Monday. Antoni Macierewicz spoke to The Associated Press just four days before about 2,000 delegates from the 28...
Putin says he hopes US-Russia ties will get back on track
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says in a July 4 message to President Barack Obama that he hopes that the ties between the two countries will get back on track. Relations between Moscow and Washington hit a post-Cold War low in 2014 when Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and threw its weight behind separatists in...
Istanbul airport attack victims mourned, honored, praised
ISTANBUL (AP) — An adoring father of his four “princesses.” A weeping bride-to-be, bent over her fiance’s coffin. Two women looking forward to a few days’ vacation with their husbands and their infant children. Victims of Tuesday night’s attack at Istanbul’s main airport have left behind mourning friends and relatives who...
The Latest: Muguruza loses 1st set to Slovak qualifier
LONDON (AP) — The Latest on Wimbledon (all times local): 5:05 p.m. French Open champion Garbine Muguruza is in trouble in her second-round match against Jana Cepelova, a Slovakian qualifier ranked No. 124. The second-seeded Spaniard, who lost to Serena Williams in last year’s final, dropped the first set 6-3 and was down 0-3 in the second....
Putin to visit Finland amid tensions in Baltic Sea region
HELSINKI (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Finland on Friday is expected to focus on cementing ties with its neighboring Western country amid heightened tensions in the region over sanctions and the Ukraine crisis. Putin’s trip to the small Nordic country — his first since the Ukraine crisis erupted in 2014 — comes as...
Putin says Russia won’t enter arms race with NATO
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin says that Russia will respond to NATO’s military buildup near its borders, but will not be drawn into an arms race. Putin said Thursday that NATO underlined its anti-Russian intentions by deploying forces in Poland and the Baltics and building missile defense sites. Russia has described NATO’s...
Details of some of the Istanbul airport attack victims
ISTANBUL (AP) — Suicide attackers armed with guns and bombs killed more than 40 people and wounded hundreds at Istanbul’s busy Ataturk Airport late Tuesday, apparently targeting Turkey’s crucial tourism industry. Details are emerging about some of the victims. ___ Caglayan Col, 26, began working at Ataturk International...
