Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)
News of the Day From Across the Globe, July 6
U.S.-led coalition aircraft unleashed a series of strikes targeting the Islamic State group’s stronghold of Raqqa in eastern Syria in what the coalition said Sunday was one of its most sustained aerial operations carried out in Syria to date. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif were locked in...
Land mine blast in east Ukraine kills 5 soldiers, wounds 3
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine says five of its soldiers were killed and three wounded when a land mine exploded in the east of the country, where government troops are fighting Russia-backed separatists. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Russia dissatisfied with MH17 report by Dutch Safety Board
Ukraine and the West suspect it was destroyed by a Russian surface-to-air missile fired by Russian soldiers or Russia-backed separatist rebels fighting in the area. Russian officials and state media have alleged the plane was shot down by a Ukrainian missile or a warplane. …read more Source: San Francisco...
News of the Day From Across the Globe
South Sudan’s army has burned people alive, raped and shot girls, and forced tens of thousands from their homes, according to interviews with survivors corroborated by human rights groups. The scorched-earth campaign is apparently aimed at driving civilians out of the rebel-controlled parts of an oil-rich state, according to Human Rights...
Dutch Safety Board has draft report into MH17 crash
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The team investigating last year’s crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine has prepared a draft final report and given it to countries involved in the probe for their comments. The Safety Board said last year that the Boeing 777 was likely brought down by “multiple high-energy...
Russia halts gas supply to Ukraine amid pricing dispute
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian gas company Gazprom halted supplies to neighboring Ukraine on Wednesday after the collapse of pricing talks, a company official said — but an EU official said both nations gave assurances the dispute would not affect the flow of Russian gas to Europe. Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said Russia stopped deliveries at 10 a.m....
Russian opposition leader campaigns against voter apathy
NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia (AP) — Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader who organized massive street protests in Moscow against Vladimir Putin four years ago, had a much harder time drawing a big crowd in Siberia’s largest city last month. Or maybe it’s that Navalny’s anti-corruption message is being drowned out by a Kremlin media...
Armenia whacked by protests over electricity price hike
After hours of hesitation, police dispersed the rally with the help of water cannons, arresting nearly 240 people, but thousands of protesters flooded back to the area shortly after. Demonstrators have maintained their blockade of the central avenue and also sought to expand their support base by inviting people to protest at home by switching...
Investigators still have no suspects in downing of MH17
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch prosecutor leading an international criminal investigation into the downing last year of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine’s battlefields said Tuesday the probe has not yet identified specific suspects for possible prosecution, but that he is optimistic it will ultimately be a success. Earlier...
AP Photos: Ukrainian village caught in crossfire of war
Roads to the village have all but crumbled away under the weight of military trucks, tanks and armored personnel carriers. For now, Krymske is in the hands of Ukrainian government forces and the volunteer battalions that fight alongside them. Ukrainians troops reply in kind, grumbling about the would-be peace agreement signed in February that...
