Section: U.S. News (USA)
Forest fire blazes in Chernobyl off-limits zone
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Fire engulfed a large sector of woods in the exclusion zone around the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant Tuesday. The fire was the worst in the area for more than two decades, Ukraine’s prime minister said. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukraine says rebels firing rocket launchers again
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian military officials said Tuesday that separatist rebels in the east have resumed the use of rocket launchers that should have been withdrawn under a February peace deal. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukraine’s rebels mete out rough justice in authority vacuum
KRASNYI PARTYZAN, Ukraine (AP) — A bruised rebel fighter in battle fatigues is tied to a traffic pole, avoiding glances as a crude message hung about his neck flutters in the wind: “I am a marauder. I beat up and robbed my countrymen.” …read more Source: U.S....
GOP defense budget challenges Obama on Ukraine, Guantanamo
WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP chairman of the House Armed Service Committee is recommending a $604 billion defense budget for 2016 that challenges the White House by including lethal weapons for Ukraine and making it harder for the president to empty the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukraine leader sees country ready for EU entrance in 5 years
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president says his country will be able meet conditions to apply for European Union membership within five years. …read more Source: U.S....
Despite tensions, US, Russia vow cooperation in the Arctic
IQALUIT, Canada (AP) — The U.S., Russia and other Arctic nations say they’re looking past Ukraine’s civil war and other tensions to prevent oil spills near the North Pole and combat climate change in a place warming faster than the rest of the world. …read more Source: U.S....
Leading Ukraine politician says billionaire inciting unrest
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A leading politician in Ukraine has accused the country’s richest man of inciting public unrest to ensure the government steers clear of reforms that would hurt his businesses. …read more Source: U.S....
Kazakhstan votes for continuity while keeping eye on Ukraine
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — As oil-rich Kazakhstan votes for a president Sunday, the governing elite is pounding home a mantra of stability as fears percolate about the country’s massive Russian minority taking inspiration from the Moscow-backed insurgency in Ukraine. …read more Source: U.S....
Russia claims US troops in eastern Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Defense Ministry says U.S. military instructors are training Ukrainian national guardsmen in urban fighting techniques in the eastern regions where Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatist rebels have fought for the past year. …read more Source: U.S....
Kerry urges Russia to remove forces from Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Russia to remove forces from eastern Ukraine and press Ukrainian separatists into observing a cease-fire. …read more Source: U.S....
