Section: US & Canada
U.N. chief urges global cease-fire to fight coronavirus outbreak
UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Monday for an immediate cease-fire in conflicts around the world to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. The U.N. chief said: “It is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the true fight of our lives.” Guterres said the world faces “a common enemy — COVID-19” which...
MH17 Trial Resumes Briefly Amid Coronavirus Restrictions
The trial in absentia of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with multiple counts of murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 resumed briefly at The Hague on March 23 amid coronavirus restrictions. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
When Disease Comes, Rulers Grab More Power
On March 13—Friday the 13th, as it happened—my husband was driving down a Polish highway when he turned on the news and learned that the country’s borders would shut down in 24 hours. He pulled over and called me. I bought a ticket from London to Warsaw minutes later. I don’t live there all of the time, but my husband is Polish, the...
Ukraine Records 26 New COVID-19 Cases As Kyiv Shuts All Public Transportation
Ukraine saw the number confirmed coronavirus cases rise to 73 as the capital, Kyiv, on March 23 is closing all public transportation for noncritical personnel. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Zelenskiy, IMF Director Hold Talks On Greater Financial Support Amid COVID-19 Crisis
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy spoke with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva about greater financial support as the eastern European faces a possible crisis due to the coronavirus. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Out Went The Cabinet, In Came The Coronavirus: Pressure Mounts For Reforms In Ukraine
First, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy fired a cabinet that had the confidence of Ukraine’s Western backers. Then came the coronavirus. Has a perfect storm of contentious domestic moves and unprecedented external factors doomed Ukraine’s chances to conduct reforms, attract investment, and shed the influence of the oligarchs? …read...
“Totalitarianism as a Mindset Can Be Anywhere”
The American Interest recently convened TAI Chairman Francis Fukuyama and Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of Imagination, for a wide-ranging conversation. They discussed the coronavirus pandemic, news from Iran, identity politics, campus trends, and why imagination and literature are essential to combatting...
COVID-19: Kyrgyzstan Mulls State Of Emergency; Ukraine Declares Emergency In Kyiv
Kyrgyzstan’s Security Council has recommended that Prime Minister Mukhammedkalyi Abylgaziev declare a national state of emergency beginning on March 22 due to the coronavirus pandemic. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine’s Quiet Depopulation Crisis
Ukraine’s president wanders the deserted streets of the capital, Kyiv, feasting in vacated supermarkets and ringing the bells of Saint Michael’s Monastery, in the forlorn hope of reaching someone left to hear them. Elsewhere, a few souls can still be found: A pro-Russian fighter stalks empty buildings in the country’s east; a...
The Latest: Singapore has first 2 deaths from coronavirus
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 275,000 people and killed more than 11,300. The COVID-19 illness causes mild or moderate symptoms in most people, but severe symptoms are more likely in the elderly or those with existing health problems. More than 88,000 people have recovered so far, mostly in China. TOP OF THE...
