Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)
Even if attacked, airline could be liable in crash
[…] payments may create goodwill, lawyers say, but they are not likely to discourage some families from seeking more than the amount promised under an international treaty — about $174,000. Since the early days of commercial aviation, international agreements have governed compensation for crash victims. Aviation-accident lawyers say it...
Ukraine claims capture of 10 Russian soldiers
The Facebook page for the anti-rebel operation — which includes the military, the national guard and Interior Ministry forces — said the soldiers are from a Russian paratrooper division and were captured on Monday in the area of Amvrosiivka, near the Russian border in the Donetsk region. Russian news agencies quoted an unnamed source in the...
Ukraine accuses Russia of moving arms over border
Moscow — Ukraine accused Russia of sending separatist fighters and an armored column into its embattled eastern region on Monday, describing the incursion as an attempt to open up a second front in the conflict now that pro-Russia forces are bottled up in their last two strongholds. Two of the 10 tanks in the armored convoy that entered...
Weapons convoys seen rolling in eastern Ukraine
KRASNODON, Ukraine (AP) — AP reporters say convoys of military weaponry and supplies have been coming from the direction of Russia into rebel-held Ukraine. Rebel fighters also described how Russian border guards did nothing to stop them. Associated Press reporters in the eastern Ukrainian town of Krasnodon observed three such convoys last week....
Russia plans to send second aid convoy to Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has announced plans to send a second aid convoy to rebel-held eastern Ukraine, where months of fighting have left many residential buildings in ruins. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Ukraine rebels parade captured soldiers on Donetsk streets
Pro-Russian insurgents on Sunday paraded captured Ukrainian soldiers through the streets of the rebel stronghold Donetsk as bystanders shouted abusive slurs and tossed eggs, bottles, and tomatoes at them. The display came as President Petro Poroshenko pledged to raise defense spending to defeat the rebels during an ostentatious procession of...
Ukraine plans $3 billion boost to defense spending
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president has vowed to boost military spending by 40 billion hryvnia ($3 billion) in the next three years as government forces seek to overpower pro-Russian separatists in the east. President Petro Poroshenko made his pledge Sunday during a speech marking Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union in...
Russian aid convoy exits Ukraine – Germany pledges financial aid
Pulling back a huge aid convoy whose entry into Ukraine stirred Western outrage, Russia on Saturday cheered the completion of what it called a successful humanitarian mission, while Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany visited the Ukrainian capital and pledged more than $690 million for the rebuilding of war-ravaged areas of eastern Ukraine and...
Russian aid trucks begin to leave Ukraine
The state news agency RIA Novosti cited the Russian customs service as saying the trucks would move in six groups. The convoy drove Friday into Ukraine bound for Luhansk, a city in eastern Ukraine hard-hit by weeks of fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels. The Ukrainian government and Western countries denounced the move as a...
Havana retro-Soviet restaurant a nod to nostalgia
Nazdarovie, which is named for the popular Russian toast and opened Friday, is all about Slavic fare like bowls of blood-red borscht and stuffed Ukrainian varenyky dumplings, hand-rolled in the back by “babushkas” who were born in the former Soviet Union but have long called Cuba home. Behind the bar, Russian nesting dolls and a bust...
