Section: US & Canada
Another leading opposition activist detained in Belarus
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Wednesday detained one of the last leading members of an opposition council who remained free, moving methodically to end a month of protests against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. Lawyer Maxim Znak, a member of the Coordination Council created by the opposition to facilitate talks...
Experts: Libya rivals UAE, Russia, Turkey violate UN embargo
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The warring parties in Libya and their international backers — the United Arab Emirates, Russia and Jordan vs Turkey and Qatar — violated a U.N. arms embargo on the oil-rich north African country that remains “totally ineffective,” U.N. experts said in a new report. The panel of experts monitoring sanctions against Libya...
Belarus Activist Maria Kolesnikova Resists Effort to Deport Her to Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine — A leading opposition activist in Belarus was held on the border with Ukraine on Tuesday after she resisted an attempt by authorities to deport her as part of government efforts to end a month of protests against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. Maria Kolesnikova, a member of the Coordination Council created by the...
Ukrainian church leader who blamed COVID-19 on gay marriage tests positive
Patriarch Filaret, a prominent Ukrainian Orthodox leader, blamed same-sex unions for the global coronavirus pandemic, which has killed thousands in Ukraine. …read more Source::...
Putin is using RT to double down in Belarus: ‘If you arrest the right 500 people, the other 100,000 won’t show up’
File photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Sochi. Reuters Russia’s Putin sent staff from RT, the Russian-controlled TV channel, to state media stations in Belarus — a signal that he does not want protestors to push Belarus’s Lukashenko out of power. “Putin has decided...
Exiled Belarus Opposition Leader Pleads for ‘Help Now’
Exiled Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has called the situation in her country “absolutely unacceptable” and pleaded for international pressure to dislodge embattled President Alexander Lukashenko who she said no longer represents Belarus.In a virtual appearance before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of...
Donald Trump Is the Military-Industrial Complex
Everybody knows Donald Trump is an opportunistic, lying asshole. Hell, that was his defenders’ main point this weekend, when they tried vainly to save the president from Jeffrey Goldberg’s September 3 article in The Atlantic, in which multiple former U.S. officials and senior military officers revealed—anonymously—that Trump in...
Belarus activist refuses authorities’ attempt to force her out of country
Some reports said that Maria Kolesnikova ripped up her passport to avoid being forced to move to Ukraine. …read more Source:: Global...
Belarus activist resists authorities’ push to leave country
KYIV, Ukraine — A leading opposition activist in Belarus was held on the border Tuesday after she resisted an attempt by authorities’ to force her to leave the country, part of government efforts to end a month of protests against the reelection of the country’s authoritarian leader. Maria Kolesnikova, a member of the Coordination...
Belarus opposition activist reportedly resisting attempts to expel her to Ukraine
A leading opposition activist in Belarus was held on the border Tuesday after she resisted an attempt by authorities to force her to leave the country, part of government efforts to end a month of protests against the re-election of the country’s authoritarian leader. …read more Source::...
