Section: KXAN (USA)
French and Russian authorities to increase fan zone security
PARIS (AP) — French and Russian authorities plan to increase security at fan zones at next year’s European Championship and the 2018 World Cup following the attacks in Paris. French Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Tuesday security for Euro 2016, scheduled from June 10-July 10 in France, will be reinforced to ensure “the fan zones...
Ukraine announces halt in delivery of goods to Crimea
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine’s government has ordered a halt to all delivery of goods to Crimea, the peninsula annexed by Russia last year. A statement by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Monday described the halt as temporary, but added that he had ordered the Cabinet to prepare a draft of a “concrete” halt of goods and services from Ukraine...
Explosions at Ukrainian towers leave Crimea without power
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Energy Ministry says nearly 2 million people on the Crimean Peninsula are without electricity after two transmission towers in Ukraine were damaged by explosions. Crimea was annexed by Russia last year but depends on Ukraine for most of its electricity supplies. The two transmission towers in Kherson, Ukraine, were...
Surrogates feel hurt by India’s ban on foreign customers
NEW DELHI (AP) — For thousands of childless couples the world over, India has been the go-to destination to fulfill their dreams of becoming parents, thanks to its well-trained doctors, well-appointed fertility clinics and vast numbers of poor women willing to serve as surrogate mothers. Not anymore. The Indian government recently banned...
Helicopter crashes in Slovakia, killing 6
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak said on Friday a Ukrainian helicopter has crashed in eastern Slovakia, killing six people. Kalinak said the helicopter was found in Slovak territory on the border with Ukraine on Friday. His ministry’s spokesman Ivan Netik told The Associated Press that Slovak border police...
Ukrainian cleared of planning to bomb Russia’s UK embassy
LONDON (AP) — A jury has cleared a Ukrainian man accused of plotting to blow up the Russian embassy in London after being radicalized by the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Prosecutors said 35-year-old Vadim Bezkorovainiy searched the Internet for explosives, filmed himself with home-made petrol bombs and scouted the area around the embassy. Police...
Russians offer ‘broad cooperation’ in effort to avoid ban
MOSCOW (AP) — In an effort to avoid a ban from track and field, Russia offered “broad cooperation” on doping reforms on Friday, including the creation of a new anti-doping agency. Track’s governing body is to decide later Friday on whether to suspend Russia from competition following a World Anti-Doping Agency commission’s report that...
Ukrainian lawmakers approve gay rights bill
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian lawmakers have approved a bill that bans discrimination of gays, key legislation intended to help pave the way for visa-free travel between Ukraine and the European Union. The 450-seat parliament on Thursday approved the bill with 234 votes. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko hailed parliament’s action as a...
Kremlin-controlled TV airs ‘secret’ plans for nuclear weapon
MOSCOW (AP) — Details of a new Russian submarine-launched nuclear torpedo have been shown on state-controlled TV, a secret the Kremlin said should never have been aired. Some observers, however, saw it as a deliberate leak. The airing of the video on television channels under tight Kremlin control raised suspicions that it was done intentionally...
Kremlin: Russian ban on flights to Egypt will last months
MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow’s ban on all flights to Egypt in the wake of a Russian plane crash will last for at least several months, the Kremlin chief of staff said Tuesday, dealing a severe blow to Egypt’s struggling tourism industry. President Vladimir Putin’s chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov, said on a visit to Finland that it would...
