Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)
EU threatens to put sanctions on Panama, other tax havens
BERLIN — A European Union official threatened Thursday to sanction Panama and other nations if they don’t cooperate fully to fight money laundering and tax evasion, after a leak of data showed the small country remains a key destination for people who want to hide money. The 11.5 million documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca...
Battered EU is loser again in Dutch referendum on Ukraine
BRUSSELS — It once seemed a quaint formality, but the Netherlands’ referendum on a European Union free-trade deal with Ukraine amounted to a slap in the face for the EU — and yet another serious challenge to the European dream. Under Dutch law, it gave them the best chance to snub their nose at “Brussels” — increasingly used as a negative...
Politicians, celebs in spotlight over offshore accounts
BERLIN — The fallout from a massive leak of records on offshore accounts dragged a growing number of leaders and celebrities into the spotlight Wednesday, with a Bollywood actor, a race car driver and Ukraine’s president among those denying they evaded taxes. The reports center on millions of documents detailing how the rich and powerful...
Russian court finds Ukrainian pilot guilty in journalists’ deaths
Russian court finds Ukrainian pilot guilty in journalists’ deaths MOSCOW — A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced a Ukrainian pilot to 22 years in prison after convicting her for complicity to murder in the 2014 deaths of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine, opening a door to a possible prisoner swap between the two countries. The...
Airline black boxes badly damaged in Russia crash
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — Aviation experts began examining the black boxes Sunday from the FlyDubai flight that crashed amid high winds at an airport in southern Russia, killing all 62 aboard. FlyDubai’s Boeing 737-800 from Dubai nose-dived and exploded in a giant fireball before dawn Saturday after trying to land for a second time in strong...
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. …read more Source: San Francisco...
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. On Saturday night, the Russian Embassy said it was attacked by men armed with baseball bats, who were wearing camouflage and ski masks and badly damaged three embassy vehicles and threw smoke bombs....
Malaysia Airlines out of danger 2 years after MH370 disaster
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 ailing from years of mismanagement that saddled it with at least $1.7 billion in losses since 2011, the Southeast Asian airline...
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. …read more Source: San Francisco...
The Latest: World leaders to ponder Syria cease-fire
Prime Minister David Cameron’s office says the Western leaders would stress to Russian President Vladimir Putin the importance of maintaining the truce so that peace talks can make progress in Geneva next week. Cameron’s spokeswoman, Helen Bower, says it’s an “opportunity for the leaders of the U.K., France and Germany to...
