Section: US & Canada
US Vows Continued Support for Freedom in Belarus
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun says Washington and its European partners will continue to press Belarusian authorities to free political prisoners, end violence against protesters, and allow citizens to choose their government through a free and fair election.Speaking in an interview with RFE/RL by telephone on September 1...
Police in Ukraine investigate beating of Israeli pilgrim
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Police in Ukraine investigate beating of Israeli pilgrim
Ukrainian police are investigating the beating of an Israeli man, who was beaten by local residents during a pilgrimage to a Ukrainian town …read more Source:: ABC...
Belarusian journalists face charges for covering protests
KYIV, Ukraine — Dozens of journalists gathered Wednesday outside a police station in the capital of Belarus to protest the detention of colleagues covering a demonstration against the nation’s authoritarian president and an election the opposition sees as rigged. Police detained several journalists from Belarusian news outlets Tuesday on...
Belarusian journalists face charges for covering protests
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dozens of journalists gathered Wednesday outside a police station in the capital of Belarus to protest the detention of colleagues covering a demonstration against the nation’s authoritarian president and an election the opposition sees as rigged. Police detained eight journalists from Belarusian news outlets Tuesday on...
Russia Accuses Ukraine Over Crisis in Belarus, Says It Won’t Engage With Opposition Council
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukraine of fomenting trouble in neighboring Belarus, and said Moscow saw no point… …read more Source:: U.S....
Hunter Biden Holds Stake in Chinese Company Sanctioned for Human-Rights Abuses
Hunter Biden holds a stake in a Chinese surveillance company that is under U.S. sanctions for human-rights violations, complicating his father Joe Biden’s campaign promise to crack down on American businesses with financial ties to China’s humanitarian abuses. Bohai Harvest RST Shanghai Equity, an investment firm that Hunter Biden...
Book: Pence told ‘to be on standby’ for Trump hospital visit
WASHINGTON — A new book is reviving questions about President Donald Trump’s unscheduled visit to Walter Reed military hospital last fall with the revelation that “word went out” for Vice-President Mike Pence to stand by to temporarily assume presidential powers if Trump had to receive anesthesia for a medical procedure. The White House has...
Turkey-Greece Maritime Squabble Risks Unfortunate War
It was the Greeks’ first military clash with their onetime colonial overlords, the Turks, since they had secured their independence from the Ottoman Empire half a century earlier. For thirty days in 1897, the eastern Mediterranean rivals skirmished over the status of Crete, whose Greek majority population also wanted independence. The...
Read Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ‘Women’s Rights’ Speech From 1995
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered the following address to the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women, in Beijing, 25 years ago. Then the first lady of the United States, Clinton famously declared that “women’s rights are human rights,” while criticizing the Chinese government’s coercive...
