Section: US & Canada
Russia Accuses UN Human Rights Council of Pro-Western Bias
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov decried what he terms the “double standards” employed at the U.N. Human Rights Council in favor of Western democratic values, at the expense of what he calls the legitimate sovereign rights of nations that do not fall within the Western orbit.Lavrov did not hide his disdain Tuesday at the...
The Trump-Modi Playbook
During his inaugural presidential visit to India, Donald Trump was greeted with a rally at the world’s largest cricket stadium. In an atmosphere reminiscent of a typical Trump event back home in the United States, he waxed lyrical about an electoral win. Only this time, he wasn’t referring to his own.“Last year, more than 600 million...
Trump Claims Purging Officials Who Are ‘Disloyal’ To Him Is Good For America
President Donald Trump wants America to know that his plans to remove government officials deemed insufficiently loyal to him is actually for the country’s own good. When a reporter asked Trump about the purge during a press conference in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday, the President initially downplayed the number of people he felt deserved...
Trump’s Most Dangerous Destruction Yet
During the 2016 presidential campaign, many observers worried about what Donald Trump might do with the U.S. intelligence apparatus. These organizations kill people, after all, with scary flying robots. They have the ability to spy on huge numbers of people all over the world. And they have a history of scandal. So it was reasonable to wonder:...
Crimean-Tatar TV Channel In Ukraine Asks EU For Money To Stay Afloat
Ukraine’s only remaining Crimean-Tatar television channel, ATR, has on February 24 submitted a plea to the European Parliament and European Commission, asking the institutions for financial support as it faces imminent closure due to lack of funding. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
House panel says key witness isn’t cooperating in probe into Yovanovitch surveillance
The House Foreign Affairs Committee said Monday that a GOP congressional candidate who claimed to have the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine under surveillance is not cooperating with the committee’s requests for informat… …read more Source:: The...
With Mask and Hashtags, Ukraine Minister Fights Coronavirus Rumors From Quarantine
By Ilya ZhegulevKIEV (Reuters) – When Ukraine Health Minister Zoriana Skaletska felt her messages about the coronavirus epidemic were not cutting… …read more Source:: U.S....
The Sultan Versus the Czar
More often than not they have been bitter geopolitical foes rather than friends. The fledgling — and now increasingly fragile — alliance that Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have been building, irking in the process Ankara’s NATO allies, has been rubbing against the grain of the history, say analysts.If...
Impeachment an afterthought for vulnerable Democrat lawmaker
EAST LANSING, Mich. — A man held up a hostile poster a few rows behind Michigan Rep. Elissa Slotkin as she spoke. On other side of the room, allies hoisted a Slotkin-friendly banner. But what was perhaps most striking at Slotkin’s first town hall since President Donald Trump’s impeachment was a newfound and uncharacteristic sense of...
Report: Transdniester Tycoon Has Ukrainian Passport, Elite Property In Kyiv And Odesa Regions
Viktor Gusan, owner of the largest business in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transdniester, has Ukrainian citizenship as well as land and property ownership in the Kyiv and Odesa regions of Ukraine, an investigative journalism group reported over the weekend. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
