Section: KXAN (USA)
Skaters lead rush of meldonium cases after Sharapova’s test
MOSCOW (AP) — With the sports world’s attention focused on Maria Sharapova’s positive test for meldonium, three other doping cases among elite Russian athletes have emerged in the last two days. World champion speedskater Pavel Kulizhnikov, Olympic gold medal-winning ice dancer Ekaterina Bobrova and national team volleyball player...
Ukrainian protesters demand that Russia release Savchenko
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A few hundred people have marched from Ukraine’s Defense Ministry to the Russian Embassy in Kiev to demand that Russia release Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko. Among those taking part in Tuesday’s demonstration were members of Ukraine’s parliament and a journalist who was recently released after spending...
Dutch investigation to pinpoint MH17 missile site by summer
BUNNIK, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch-led team carrying out a criminal investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014 says it soon should determine the exact launch site of the missile that brought down the plane, killing all 298 people on board. But Fred Westerbeke, the prosecutor leading the...
Ukrainians rally to demand Russia release Savchenko
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — About 2,000 people have rallied on Independence Square in Kiev to demand that Russia release Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko. Savchenko was captured in June 2014 while fighting with a Ukrainian volunteer battalion against Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine. She is now on trial in Russia, accused of acting as a spotter...
Malaysia Airlines out of danger 2 years after MH370 disaster
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia Airlines is out of intensive care. Now it’s working on long-term rehabilitation. Two years ago this week, disaster struck when Flight 370 vanished, leaving the company reeling from a crisis magnified months later by the downing of a second Boeing 777 over Ukraine. Shunned by travelers and already...
Ukrainian pilot on trial pledges to keep up hunger strike
MOSCOW (AP) — A Ukrainian pilot on trial in Russia says she will remain on hunger strike until she is extradited back home. Nadezhda Savchenko was fighting with a Ukrainian volunteer battalion against Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine when she was captured in June 2014. Russia claims she was acting as a spotter who called in coordinates for...
Families of 12 passengers on Flight 370 file lawsuits
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Families of 12 passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have sued the carrier and the government, ahead of a filing deadline next week on the second anniversary of the plane’s disappearance. The Boeing 777 carrying 239 flew far off course for unknown reasons after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8,...
France calls for prisoner exchange in Ukraine conflict
PARIS (AP) — France’s foreign minister is calling for an April 30 deadline for a prisoner exchange in the Ukraine conflict and local elections by mid-year in the Donbas region. After a meeting with his Russian, Ukrainian and German counterparts to examine how the cease-fire in Ukraine is holding up, Jean-Marc Ayrault said late Thursday that...
Ukrainian pilot on trial in Russia goes on hunger strike
DONETSK, Russia (AP) — A Ukrainian pilot on trial in Russia says she is going on hunger strike. Nadezhda Savchenko, on trial in the Russian border town of Donetsk for her alleged involvement in the deaths of two Russian journalists, was fighting in a volunteer battalion against Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine when she was captured in...
Ukraine accuses rebels of using large-caliber weapon Grad
MOSCOW (AP) — The Ukrainian government has accused Russian-backed rebels of using large-caliber weapons despite the ongoing cease-fire in eastern Ukraine. Fighting in Ukraine’s industrial heartland has intensified in the past weeks as peace talks have reached a stalemate. The cease-fire required both sides to withdraw large- and...
