Section: US & Canada
Students, IT workers keep pressure on defiant Belarus leader
KYIV, Ukraine — Hundreds of demonstrators rallied again in Belarus’ capital Friday to protest the disputed reelection of the nation’s authoritarian president, while police dispersed university students attempting to show solidarity with peers who were detained earlier in the week. Information technology workers and other protesters...
Trump’s True Relationship With Russia Has Never Been Revealed
Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The AtlanticFate offered Peter Strzok a place in history that he never sought. The son of an Army officer, Strzok also served in the United States military before joining the FBI’s counterintelligence operation in 1996. He excelled at his job: In 2001, he was part of the team that tracked and arrested a network of...
Why Putin deliberately uses Novichok to poison his enemies, even though it often fails to kill them
Russian President Putin takes part in a video conference call at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia June 20, 2020. Reuters German doctors have accused Russia of poisoning top critic Alexei Navalny with the Novichok nerve agent in late August. Though Novichok was developed in the Soviet Union in 1970s, the Russian state has...
Portugal: Young climate activists take 33 countries to court
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Six young Portuguese activists launched Thursday a European human rights case against 33 countries in the latest legal effort to force governments to step up their fight against climate change. The six filed a claim Thursday asking the European Court of Human Rights to hold the countries accountable for their allegedly...
Pressure grows for Germany to rethink pipeline with Russia
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced pressure on Thursday to use a joint German-Russian pipeline project as leverage in getting Russia to provide answers about the poisoning of the Kremlin’s most determined critic. After German authorities said Wednesday that tests showed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned...
Belarus leader reshuffles lieutenants to tighten control
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian leader on Thursday reshuffled his top lieutenants in an apparent attempt to strengthen his rule amid weeks of protests pushing for his resignation. President Alexander Lukashenko promoted Valery Vakulchik, who led the state security agency that still goes under the Soviet-era name of KGB, to be...
The Time to Act is Now
In the contemporary era, where the meaning of historic events is increasingly muddled by “competing narratives”, the political crisis in Belarus offers the world a satisfying case of moral clarity. In his August 28, 2020 remarks in Vienna, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun proclaimed, “It is clear to me—and I hope it is clear to...
State Dept. officials monitored Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, Fox News hosts’ social media accounts in the early days of the Ukraine scandal
Officials at the United States Embassy in Kyiv may have broken federal law by launching an effort to monitor the social media accounts of 13 prominent Americans at the start of the Ukraine scandal in 2019, newly released State Department memos show. According to a Just the News report by journalist John Solomon — who worked for The Hill at the...
The Republicans’ Absurd Quest to Turn Biden Into Trump
Earlier this week, Joe Biden spoke about the recent protests and violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The crux of his remarks—and an emerging theme of his campaign—was a simple question: “Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is reelected?” he asked. Conservative commentators leapt into action.“The ‘blackmail...
Putin Critic Navalny Was Poisoned With Novichok, Germany Says
By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) – A critic of President Vladimir Putin who fell into a coma in Russia and is being treated in Berlin was attacked with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent, a German government spokesman said on Wednesday. Recent Stories in Latest News Putin Critic Navalny Was Poisoned With Novichok, Germany Says Chicago Shootings...
