Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)
Kerry in Ukraine to offer help from United States
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, sending a not-so-subtle message to Russia ahead of this week’s NATO summit. …read more Source: San Francisco...
NATO summit a defining moment in Polish security aspirations
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish capital once lent its name to the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet-led defense alliance that stood as a counterweight to NATO during the Cold War. The anticipation of having U.S. President Barack Obama and the heads of the other allied nations gather in a city shaped by centuries of unwanted Russian interference marks a...
Kerry visits Georgia, Ukraine to show solidarity
Secretary of State John Kerry, on the first leg a two-day visit to the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine before joining President Obama at the NATO meeting in Poland, signed the new security cooperation agreement with Georgian Prime Minister Georgy Kvirikashvili. The signing came after talks in Tbilisi that also covered economic,...
AP News Analysis: Brexit raises new opportunities for Putin
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has remained poker-faced as Britain voted to exit the European Union, but the Russian leader stands to gain significantly from the British departure, which would weaken the EU and create new tensions in the bloc. With Britain facing a long and messy divorce with the EU, both London’s role and,...
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...
July 4th message from Putin to Obama: Let’s have better ties
The Young Guard activists put up easels with the portraits and quotes of former world leaders that the activists claim were topped by the United States, like Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych or Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi. “Under its current leadership, the United States has become a parasite state that attacks other countries...
AP PHOTOS: Kiev’s outdoor gym flourishes 50 years on
Kuk, a mathematician who worked in a cybernetics research center, says it was easy to obtain materials and factory hands willing to shape the equipment in the 1970s, when Soviet heavy industry was still flourishing. Nearly 50 years on, the gym boasts about 200 hand-made machines, from leg and arm trainers to more sophisticated contraptions. The...
The Latest: Iranian, Ukrainian among Istanbul attack victims
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, whose plane landed in Istanbul minutes after the attacks on Istanbul’s airport, has expressed his condolences to the victims. Turkish officials say Istanbul’s busy Ataturk International Airport has reopened, hours after three suicide bombers killed 36 and wounded 147. Turkey’s Prime Minister...
AP Interview: NATO military chief: National forces are key
BYDGOSZCZ, Poland (AP) — The upcoming NATO summit should send a message to member states that they have the responsibility to provide the first line of defense of their own countries, the alliance’s top military officer said Thursday. Gen. Petr Pavel, chairman of NATO’s Military Committee, said the 28-member alliance has the...
Dozens in Russia imprisoned for social media likes, reposts
TVER, Russia — Anastasia Bubeyeva shows a screenshot on her computer of a picture of a toothpaste tube with the words: “Squeeze Russia out of yourself!” For sharing this picture on a social media site with his 12 friends, her husband was sentenced this month to more than two years in prison. At least 54 people were sent to prison for hate speech...
