Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)
Foreign ministers gather in Berlin in bid to ease Ukraine crisis
BERLIN — The foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine met here Monday with their German and French counterparts in the latest attempt to ease the crisis in eastern Ukraine, where some 4,700 people have been killed since the conflict erupted last spring. Sounding weary but determined to pursue any chance of a diplomatic solution, Foreign Minister...
Interpol puts ex-Ukraine president Yanukovych on wanted list
MOSCOW (AP) — The international police agency Interpol has issued a wanted notice for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on charges of embezzlement. The so-called “red notice” issued Monday is not an arrest warrant, but aimed at helping national police agencies of member countries identify suspects. …read more Source:...
Foreign ministers gather in Berlin to seek Ukraine progress
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister is hosting his counterparts from Russia, Ukraine and France in an attempt to move forward efforts to calm the Ukrainian crisis and perhaps clear the way for a summit of the countries’ leaders. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Millions rally across France to repudiate terror attacks
PARIS — More than a million people surged through the boulevards of Paris behind dozens of world leaders walking arm-in-arm Sunday in a rally for unity described as the largest demonstration in French history. More than 40 world leaders headed the somber procession — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud...
Merkel urges Putin, Poroshenko to implement peace plan
After talking with Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine on the phone Saturday, Merkel met Sunday with Poroshenko and French President Francois Hollande at the presidential palace in Paris. In talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Poroshenko, she stressed that for the meeting to be successful there has to...
World leaders head Paris march to honor terror victims
PARIS (AP) — More than 40 world leaders, their arms linked, marched through Paris Sunday to rally for unity and freedom of expression and to honor 17 victims of three days of terrorist attacks. The leaders were heading a demonstration of at least tens of thousands of people who converged on the capital after three gunmen attacked a newspaper...
World leaders converge on Paris, with crowd of thousands
Even hardened rivals such as the Israeli prime minister and the Palestinian president, and top representatives from Ukraine and Russia, were gathered together in the giant formal rooms of the Elysee, along with French President Francois Hollande. …read more Source: San Francisco...
News of the Day From Across the Globe, Jan. 10
1 Saudi blogger flogged: A Saudi blogger convicted of insulting Islam was brought after Friday prayers to a public square in the port city of Jiddah and flogged 50 times before hundreds of spectators, a witness said. New Russian road safety regulations bar transsexuals, transvestites and others with sexual “disorders” from driving, ostensibly for...
Ukraine says separatists intensifying rocket attacks
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian military officials say separatists in the east have intensified their shelling of government positions ahead of peace talks expected in the coming week. An AP reporter heard rockets being fired Thursday evening into the separatist stronghold of Donetsk — an indication that government forces are also likely breaching...
Merkel website hacked ahead of visit by Ukrainian premier
Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert said several government websites were unreachable Wednesday morning because of a “serious attack clearly caused by a multitude of external systems” — what is known as a distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attack. …read more Source: San Francisco...
