Section: US & Canada
Belarus ramps up crackdown on protests, detains over 700
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Over 700 people were detained in Belarus during mass protests against the re-election of the country’s authoritarian leader in a disputed election — the harshest crackdown in weeks on protesters. The Belarusian Interior Ministry reported Monday that 713 people were detained during rallies across the country a day...
Rights group: Scores detained during protests in Belarus
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Scores of people were detained in Belarus on Sunday during protests against the country’s authoritarian leader, who won his sixth term in office in a vote widely seen as rigged, a Belarusian rights group said. Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in the Belarusian capital Minsk for the 10th consecutive Sunday,...
State Dept Officials Were Skeptical about Christopher Steele Reports
We have now received 48 pages of emails among top Obama State Department officials and a U.S. Ambassador expressing skepticism about Steele reports by Steele’s London-based private intelligence firm Orbis Business Intelligence. Steele was the author of the Clinton-funded, anti-Trump dossier. One assistant secretary of state says some of...
Not Just Soup: Ukraine Seeks ‘Cultural Heritage’ Listing For Borscht
A Kyiv-based chef, who cites neighboring Russia’s proprietary feelings about one of the ultimate comfort foods as a motive, is helping cook up a bid for UNESCO recognition of Ukrainian borscht on an Intangible Cultural Heritage list. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Europe Confronted With Second Coronavirus Outbreak
European countries are imposing a variety of new coronavirus containment measures as they confront a second wave of infections.The World Health Organization reported Friday that nearly one-third of a record-high one-day total of 350,000 new cases worldwide were in Europe.Record daily highs were reported Saturday in Portugal, the Netherlands,...
Belarus’ authoritarian leader visits his foes in prison
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Belarus’ authoritarian president on Saturday visited a prison to talk to opposition activists, who have been jailed for challenging his re-election that was widely seen as manipulated and triggered two months of protests. President Alexander Lukashenko spent more than four hours talking to his jailed political...
Belarus’ authoritarian leader visits his foes in prison
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian president on Saturday visited a prison to talk to opposition activists, who have been jailed for challenging his re-election that was widely seen as manipulated and triggered two months of protests. President Alexander Lukashenko spent more than four hours talking to his jailed political foes at...
Police detain protesters in Russian city of Khabarovsk
MOSCOW (AP) — Police in a far eastern Russian city detained several dozen protesters on Saturday, the first such crackdown since rallies against the arrest of the provincial governor started three months ago. Khabarovsk Gov. Sergei Furgal was arrested on July 9 on suspicion of involvement in murders and taken to jail in Moscow. Furgal, a former...
WHO: World Sets One-day Record of Over 350,000 New Coronavirus Cases
The world has set a record for the number of new daily coronavirus cases confirmed across the globe with more than 350,000, according to the World Health Organization.In a press briefing from Geneva on Friday, WHO emergencies chief Dr. Michael Ryan acknowledged that even as COVID-19 cases increase worldwide, “there are no new...
Belarus’ leader claims he saved opposition challenger’s life
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian president, whose re-election has triggered two months of protests, maintained Friday that he saved his main opponent’s life by getting her out of the country — a claim rejected by her spokeswoman. Alexander Lukashenko asserted that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who ran against him in the Aug. 9...
