Section: US & Canada
AP Explains: Why Revolt in Belarus Is Different From Ukraine
A former Soviet republic on the fault line between Russia and Europe is boiling with revolt this summer. …read more Source:: U.S....
Iran retrieves data, cockpit talk from downed Ukraine plane
An Iranian official says some data, including a portion of cockpit conversations, have been retrieved from the Ukrainian jetliner downed by Iranian forces in January …read more Source:: ABC...
AP Explains: Why revolt in Belarus is different from Ukraine
A former Soviet republic on the fault line between Russia and Europe is boiling with revolt this summer …read more Source:: ABC...
AP Explains: Why revolt in Belarus is different from Ukraine
A former Soviet republic on the fault line between Russia and Europe is boiling with revolt this summer. Sounds familiar — but Belarus 2020 isn’t Ukraine 2014, and that’s why … Click to Continue » …read more Source:: Miami...
Belarus Opposition Calls on West to Reaffirm Country’s Territorial Integrity
Belarus opposition figures are urging Western governments to collectively make it clear to the Kremlin that Russia must avoid a military intervention to save Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. They want Western nations to announce their readiness to stand by the Budapest Memorandum, an international protocol signed in 1994 guaranteeing the...
Saying Goodbye, Sort of, to Germany
President Donald Trump recently ordered a 12,000-troop reduction in American military personnel stationed in Germany. That leaves about 24,000 American soldiers still in the country. A little more than half of the troops being withdrawn will return home. The rest will be redeployed to other NATO member nations such as Belgium, Italy, and perhaps...
Israel’s Coronavirus Chief Urges Ukraine to Ban Jewish Pilgrimage
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The head of Israel’s coronavirus task force has asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to ban an annual pilgrimage in… …read more Source:: U.S....
Senate Chairman Hits Attempt to ‘Undermine’ Subpoena for Diplomat Linked to Anti-Trump Document
Sen. Ron Johnson on Thursday accused his Democratic counterpart of trying to “undermine” efforts to subpoena a former Department of State official linked to dossier author Christopher Steele. Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said on Twitter that ranking Democrat Sen. Gary Peters was using “absurd process arguments...
How Small Acts of Defiance Turned Into a Massive Movement Against Europe’s Last Dictator
Sviatlana Haluza broke down on June 9. As an employee of Belarus’s state-controlled media outlet SB.by, she’d grown used to rewriting boilerplate propaganda mined from other state-controlled media outlets. But now her boss instructed her to recycle an item about the imprisoned opposition leader Siarhei Tsikhanousky. Haluza had a...
Will Fatal Moments Seal Autocrat’s Fate?
Autocrats fall when people lose their fear — and that moment can be signaled dramatically by a simple jeer. As it was last week when Europe’s so-called “last dictator,” Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko, was booed during a speech at a Minsk factory by workers who chanted for him to step down.“Until you kill me, there will be no other...
