UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia accused the West of “whipping up tensions” over Ukraine and said the U.S. had brought “pure Nazis” to power in Kyiv as the U.N. Security Council held a stormy and bellicose debate on Moscow’s troop buildup near its southern neighbor. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield shot back that Russia’s growing military…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered about 8,500 U.S. troops on heightened alert, preparing for possible deployment to Europe, if needed, to reassure NATO allies in the face of Russian aggression on the border of Ukraine. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said Monday no final decisions have been made…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is ordering the families of all American personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv to leave the country and allowing non-essential staff to leave Ukraine. The move comes amid heightened fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine despite talks between U.S. and Russian officials. The State Department stresses that…
GENEVA (AP) — The United States and Russia are trying to avert another devastating conflict in Europe. But the two powers’ top diplomats warned Friday that no breakthrough was imminent as fears rise that Moscow is planning to invade Ukraine. Armed with seemingly intractable and diametrically opposed demands, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The speedy Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has revived alarms about a resurgent al-Qaida and new terrorism threats against the U.S. The group’s danger to the United States had been eclipsed in the past two decades by other threats, but experts are concerned that al-Qaida could again be given unfettered safe harbor by…
MOSCOW (AP) — A gunman attacked a school in the Russian city of Kazan and Russian officials say eight people have been killed — seven students and a teacher. They also say 21 others have been hospitalized with wounds. Tatarstan Gov. Rustam Minnikhanov said four boys and three girls, all eighth graders, died in the…
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV , Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — At least four people died Monday when part of a 10-story apartment building collapsed in Russia’s Ural Mountains region, and hundreds of rescuers searched for survivors under the rubble in the frigid weather. The nation’s top investigative agency, the Investigative Committee, said an explosion triggered by…
MOSCOW (AP) — A local official says one person has been killed and three injured after a bomb went off at the entrance of the local branch of Russia’s main intelligence agency.Governor Igor Orlov told Russian news agencies on Wednesday that an explosive device went off at the entrance of the FSB’s office in the…
MOSCOW (AP) — At least 10 of the wounded in a school shooting and bomb attack carried out by a student at a vocational school in Crimea will be airlifted to hospitals in Russia, the health minister said Thursday. An 18-year-old student went on a rampage at the school on the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia…
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and NATALIYA VASILYEVA , Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian official said a student attacked a vocational college Wednesday in Crimea, a rampage that killed 17 other students and left more than 40 people wounded, before killing himself. The comments from Sergei Aksyonov, the regional leader in Crimea, were the latest…