Section: US & Canada
DNI Warns For The First Time That Russia Wants To Damage Biden In The 2020 Election
The Russian government is supporting efforts to damage Joe Biden and boost President Trump, counterintelligence chief William Evanina said on Friday. The statement from Evanina also says that China”prefers” for Trump to lose re-election to Biden. The new announcement comes two weeks after Evanina released a similar, but less specific statement...
US Sees Election Threats From China, Russia and Iran
The director of US intelligence on Friday raised concerns about interference in the 2020 election by China, Russia and Iran.U.S. intelligence has assessed that China is hoping President Donald Trump does not win reelection, Russia is working to denigrate Democrat Joe Biden and Iran is seeking to undermine democratic institutions, said Bill...
The Leader of Europe’s ‘Last Dictatorship’ Is Facing an Unprecedented Challenge. Here’s What It Could Mean for Belarus
Europe’s longest serving leader Alexander Lukashenko has long worked hard to seem invincible. He has dominated past elections that the U.S. has deemed neither free nor fair and brokered no dissent and suppressed protests. Now, he is facing an unprecedented challenge as he runs for a sixth term as president of Belarus in elections on August...
Leaders of Russia and Belarus discuss arrested contractors
MOSCOW — The leaders of Russia and Belarus moved Friday to mend a rift caused by Belarusian authorities’ arrest of 33 Russian security contractors on charges of planning to foment unrest ahead of the country’s presidential election. Belarusian authorities accused the Russian contractors of planning to instigate mass riots as...
President’s virus swagger fuels anger ahead of Belarus vote
MINSK, Belarus — As Kseniya Milya’s grandfather lay dying of COVID-19 at a hospital in Belarus’ capital of Minsk, the country’s authoritarian leader was blithely dismissing the pandemic as “psychosis,” and recommending an unusual remedy: Have a regular shot of vodka and work hard in the fields. Like many other Belarusians angry...
Ukraine Port Has Ship Named Trump D With Three Times the Same Explosive That Blew Up Beirut
Stephane Mahe/ReutersAn American-owned cargo ship named after the president of the United States docked in a Ukrainian port has just offloaded 10,000 metric tons of the same chemical substance that nearly leveled the city of Beirut this week, according to the Liveuamap news source. The hangar in Lebanon only had 2,750 metric tons of ammonium...
At the Atlantic Council, Foreign Money Talks
When Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s bodyguards were arrested after attacking a crowd of protesters outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in May 2017, Erdogan and his crew were heading inside for a private, off-the-record meeting with Atlantic Council fellows and board members. That event is just one example of the close...
Ukraine Reports Steady Rise in COVID Cases, Deaths
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine has recorded a steady daily increase in coronavirus cases in recent weeks and the health ministry is urging people to… …read more Source:: U.S....
Justice Department seeks forfeiture of property from Ukrainian bank owners
The Justice Department on Thursday moved to seize property from the owners of one of the largest banks in Ukraine for alleged money laundering. …read more Source:: United Press...
Captain astonished that his ship delivered Beirut explosive
MOSCOW (AP) — When Boris Prokoshev, a former sea captain spending his retirement years in a Russian village, woke up and found an email saying a ship he once commanded had carried the ammonium nitrate that blew up swathes of Beirut, he was astonished. “I didn’t understand anything,” he told The Associated Press on Thursday from Verkhnee...
