UKRAINE PRESIDENT PROPOSES PROTESTER AMNESTY
By JIM HEINTZ and YURAS KARMANAU A Pro-European Union activist guards a barricade in the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine Friday, Dec. 13, 2013. A leader of the massive anti-government…
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EU’S ASHTON: YANUKOVYCH WANTS TO SIGN EU DEAL
By JIM HEINTZ and RAF CASERT Pro-European Union activists are trained to resist police inside their tent camp at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Ukraine was…
PUTIN ANNOUNCES CRACKDOWN ON OFFSHORE COMPANIES
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a state of the nation address in the Kremlin in Moscow, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) MOSCOW (AP) — Russian…
PUTIN VOWS TO BEEF UP ARCTIC MILITARY PRESENCE
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Col. Gen. Valery Gerasimov during a meeting with the…
WESTERN ENVOYS GO TO KIEV HOPING TO DEF– USE CRISIS
By MARIA DANILOVA Riot police block an opposition tent camp while displacing pro-European Union activists from their barricades at the Ukrainian presidential administration building in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 10,…
RIOT POLICE DEPLOY NEAR PROTEST SITES IN KIEV
By JIM HEINTZ and YURAS KARMANAU A Pro-European Union activist tries to give food to riot police officers preparing to block the Independence Square in KIev, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 9,…
RUSSIA: CRASHED PILOT MAY HAVE HAD FAKE LICENSE
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV FILE – In this Nov. 17, 2013, file photo provided by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, firefighters and rescuers work at the crash site of a Russian passenger…
WESTERN ENVOYS URGE KIEV TO RESPECT HUGE PROTESTS
By JIM HEINTZ Ukraine’s Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, right, along with Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, addresses the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s ministerial council summit in Kiev, Ukraine,…