Section: US & Canada
Abductions, Torture, ‘Hybrid Deportation’: Crimean Tatar Activist Describes Six Years Under Russian Rule
Crimean Tatar activist Mumine Saliyeva, whose husband faces up to 20 years in prison on terrorism charges he says are fabricated, speaks to RFE/RL about the repressions Crimean Tatars have faced in the six years since Russia occupied and seized control of the Ukrainian region of Crimea. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
COVID-19: Iran Warns Virus Could Kill ‘Millions,’ Ukraine Suspends Public Transport
Iran says 135 more people have been killed by the new coronavirus over the past day, a 13 percent spike that has pushed the death toll to 988, as thousands of inmates were temporarily released in an effort to slow the outbreak. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Latest: French police begin patrols to stem virus spread
The Latest on the world’s coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 183,000 people and killed more than 7,100. 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 79,000 people have recovered so far, mostly in...
MH17 trial to resume with no public due to virus measures
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The murder trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian accused of involvement in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 will be closed to the public and media when it briefly resumes later this month in a Dutch courtroom. The decision announced Tuesday to close the March 23 hearing comes after Dutch courts said...
Zelenskiy Calls On Oligarchs To Help Finance Virus Fight As China’s Ma Donates Testing Kits
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on the nation’s wealthiest businessmen to donate funds and equipment to help fight the coronavirus inside the country. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
A Case for Unity
At times during CNN’s Democratic debate on Sunday night, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders seemed like feuding former vaudeville stars arguing over which of them muffed his lines in Buffalo 43 years ago. It was Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys brought to a debate stage.In the midst of the worst pandemic in a century, does anyone care that...
Hunter Biden’s Foreign Visits Cost Taxpayers Nearly $200,000, According to Gov’t Database
Then-vice president Joe Biden spared no words when he extolled the virtues of his second son, Hunter Biden, in a 2013 address to South Korean students at the elite Yonsei University. “And as I speak, my son has just boarded—my grown son has just boarded a plane, an aircraft—he’s heading to the Philippines,” Biden said....
European nations grapple with a united plan to combat coronavirus
The European Union’s top official on Monday proposed a 30-day ban on non-essential travel into the bloc to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, while insisting on the need to keep the internal borders between the 27 member states as open as possible. …read more Source::...
EU Slams Russia For Militarization, Human Rights In Crimea, Six Years After Referendum
The European Union has slammed Russia for its increasing militarization of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and human rights transgressions six years after its “illegal” annexation. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Hunter Biden’s Foreign Visits Cost Taxpayers $200,000
Then-vice president Joe Biden spared no words when he extolled the virtues of his second son, Hunter Biden, in a 2013 address to South Korean students at the elite Yonsei University. “And as I speak, my son has just boarded—my grown son has just boarded a plane, an aircraft—he’s heading to the Philippines,” Biden said....
