Section: US & Canada
Hungarian FM in Ukraine to push for ethnic minority rights
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Hungary’s top diplomat visited Kyiv Wednesday to try and defuse a rift over the rights of Ukraine’s Hungarian minority, which has clouded bilateral relations for years. Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto suggested that the two countries set up a working group to solve a dispute over Ukraine’s …...
Russia’s Putin warns of worsening global instability
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that the world risks sliding deeper into instability as the coronavirus pandemic combines with global rivalries and other international tensions. Speaking by video link during a virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Putin pointed at growing inequality and unemployment and a...
Ukraine Says Group Of Banking Hackers Exposed After Causing $2.5 Billion In Losses
Ukrainian authorities say they have exposed a group of hackers who interfered with the computer network servers of several European and U.S. banks, causing losses of $2.5 billion. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Germany remembers Auschwitz liberation in parliament
BERLIN — A survivor of the Holocaust and a young Jewish immigrant spoke about their lives in Germany at a special parliamentary session Wednesday commemorating the victims of the Holocaust 76 years after the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland. Charlotte Knobloch, 88, and Marina Weisband, 33, told lawmakers on...
Cyber cops in 9 nations team up to disrupt dangerous malware
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Law enforcement authorities in several countries have joined forces to disrupt what they call one of the world’s most dangerous pieces of malware, one that allowed criminal gangs to install ransomware and steal data from computer users. European Union police and judicial agencies Europol and Eurojust said...
Hungary, Ukraine Top Diplomats Aim to Defuse Dispute Over Minority Rights
KYIV (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of Hungary and Ukraine were expected to meet in Kyiv on Wednesday for talks on repairing badly strained… …read more Source:: U.S....
Biden, Putin Hold First Phone Discussions
For the first time since his inauguration, U.S. President Joe Biden spoke Tuesday with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, expressing concerns about the arrest of dissident Alexei Navalny, Moscow’s cyber-espionage campaign and bounties on U.S. troops in Afghanistan, two senior Biden administration officials said.Biden’s stance appeared to...
Free Beacon Presents: Political Disrupters to Watch in 2021
Now that Joe Biden has been sworn in as the oldest president in American history, it’s time to stop dwelling on the past and start looking forward to the future. Twenty twenty-one has the potential to be one of the most politically challenging years since 2020. We’ve identified a number of “political disrupters” who could...
How Biden Can Achieve a Russian Restoration
Volcanic protests erupted across Russia in the first weekend of Joe Biden’s presidency, adding the challenge of Putinism under duress to the more familiar challenge of dealing with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. As The Washington Post reported, more than 3,000 people were arrested in the demonstrations. Well beyond Moscow and Saint...
Ukraine Protests To BBC Over Map Showing ‘Russian Cities’ In Crimea
Ukraine has protested against the BBC’s inclusion of Moscow-annexed Crimean cities on a list of Russian cities where demonstrators rallied to support jailed Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
