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 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,…
UKRAINE MASS PROTESTS RESUME AFTER GOVT WINS VOTE
By MARIA DANILOVA People rally outside of the presidential administration building in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. Ukraine’s opposition failed to force out the government with a…
UKRAINE OPPOSITION FAILS TO FORCE OUT GOVT IN VOTE
By MARIA DANILOVA Protesters chant slogans outside the Parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday opened a high-tension session in which the opposition aims…
Berlusconi fights to the end to keep Senate seat
By NICOLE WINFIELD Italian Senator Silvio Berlusconi prepares to speak at a press conference in Rome, Monday, Nov. 25, 2013. Berlusconi claimed Monday that new affidavits from 12 witnesses and…