Section: US & Canada
Kenya defeats Djibouti for a seat on UN Security Council
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Kenya defeated Djibouti on Thursday for an African seat on the U.N. Security Council in a second round of voting held under dramatically different procedures because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first round of voting on Wednesday, neither country received the required two-thirds majority in the 193-member U.N. General...
Germany Says Kremlin Behind Murder of Ethnic Chechen
Germany’s federal prosecutors Thursday charged a Russian national for the killing last year of a Georgian rebel fighter in Berlin and said Moscow ordered the assassination. The development is likely to further strain Berlin’s already rocky relations with the Kremlin, according to diplomats. The German government expelled two Russian...
Trump Unleashes Attacks on Bolton Book
U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed a full-bore attack Thursday on his former national security adviser John Bolton after Bolton in a new book that called the U.S. leader an “erratic” and “stunningly uninformed” commander in chief.Trump, in a string of biting Twitter comments, called Bolton’s book “a compilation of lies and made up...
Ex-president Poroshenko draws thousands of supporters at Ukraine criminal trial
Ukrainian prosecutors dropped a demand on Thursday for former president Petro Poroshenko to be taken into custody while he awaits trial in a criminal case he says is politically motivated. …read more Source::...
U.S. Embassy Warns Ukraine About Its Justice System As Arrest Of Poroshenko Being Mulled
The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv has expressed concerns about Ukraine’s justice system at a time when the State Bureau of Investigations (DBR) and the Prosecutor-General’s Office are considering arresting former President Petro Poroshenko amid a spate of investigations involving him. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
EU Extends Crimea Sanctions By One More Year
The European Union has rolled over for another year sanctions imposed over Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Polish leader’s Trump card: a pre-election U.S. invite
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Donald Trump will be giving an image boost to Poland’s populist president, Andrzej Duda, by hosting him at the White House next week, just four days before Poland holds a presidential election in which Duda is fighting for a second term. Since the June 24 visit was announced Wednesday, some in Poland have...
John Bolton: American Coward
Long ago, in the distant mists of the Before Time, the House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of justice. Both charges came in response to Trump’s role in the Ukraine scandal, where he and his underlings withheld military aid in a bumbling effort to extort the Ukrainian president into...
Trump lashes out against John Bolton in response to damning allegations in tell-all memoir, which the president says is ‘made up of lies and fake stories’
Bolton made a slew of claims about the Trump White House, including the Ukraine scandal at the center of Trump’s impeachment trial. …read more Source:: Business...
Beyond Ukraine Scandal, Bolton Says Trump Sought China’s Help for Reelection
The incident that led to the president’s impeachment was only part of a larger pattern, former national security advisor writes. …read more Source:: Foreign...
