Section: The Frontier Post (Pakistan)
Daughter of NFL, NHL owners advances at Australia Open
Monitoring Desk MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — It’s a long way from Buffalo, New York, to the second week of a Grand Slam, which may be why Jessica Pegula’s journey took a while. The No. 61-ranked Pegula reached the fourth round at the Australian Open by drubbing Kristina Mladenovic 6-2, 6-1 Saturday. Even Pegula, 26, seemed surprised by...
Trump trial video shows vast scope, danger of Capitol riot
Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors unveiled chilling new security video in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Wednesday, showing the mob of rioters breaking into the Capitol, smashing windows and doors and searching menacingly for Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as overwhelmed police begged on their...
Germany offered US a deal to drop Nord Stream 2 sanctions
Monitoring Desk A German environmental NGO claims Finance Minister Olaf Scholz offered to aid the import of liquid gas from the US if the Trump administration dropped threatened action against the Russian pipeline project. The German government offered the Trump administration financial support of up to €1 billion ($1.21 billion) in a bid to...
Trump’s trial starting: ‘Grievous crime’ or just ‘theater’
Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate launches Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial on Tuesday, with lawyers for the former president insisting he is not guilty of inciting mob violence at the Capitol to overturn the election while prosecutors say he must be convicted of the “most grievous constitutional crime” even...
What the National Guard Deployment to D.C. Tells Us
Bradley Bowman The failure to protect the U.S. Capitol from an insurrectionist attack on January 6 is understandably dominating headlines. Leaders and investigators are right to ask how such a horrible breach of security happened—and what must be done to ensure it never happens again. There are also serious concerns about the role of veterans in...
Azerbaijan-Turkmenistan energy deal unlocks new regional politics
LUKE COFFEY The new tentative deal will allow both countries to explore lucrative deposits of energy beneath the Caspian Sea. Last week Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan took concrete steps to end a three-decade long dispute over an offshore oil field in the Caspian Sea. The Azerbaijanis called the disputed oilfield Kapaz — after Mount Kapaz located...
Might Versus Right: Putin’s Bunker and the Protests Outside
Andrei Kolesnikov “How many divisions does the pope have?” Josef Stalin is said to have once asked Winston Churchill, in a mocking reference to the Vatican’s lack of military strength. And so Vladimir Putin, in possession of a vast army of riot police, might ask of Russia’s opposition leader: “How many divisions does Alexei Navalny...
Is Nord Stream 2 dead in the water despite construction reboot?
Monitoring Desk The Baltic Sea natural gas pipeline has become a political wrestling match, with the United States on one side and Russia on the other. Germany and the EU are stuck in the middle. The endgame for a project worth billions is underway in the Baltic Sea. But the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has long since become a political hot potato....
Will This Contender for German Chancellor Be a Friend to Russia?
Dmitri Kartsev Germany’s ruling party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has chosen a new leader: Armin Laschet, the prime minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. This fall, he will most probably head the joint CDU/Christian Social Union list in Germany’s parliamentary election. With the Christian Democrats’...
First Biden-Putin call shows both cautious on big concerns
Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian leader Vladimir Putin held their first conversation as counterparts Tuesday in a phone call that underscored troubled relations and the delicate balance between the former Cold War foes. According to the White House, Biden raised concerns about the arrest of opposition figure...
