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    US Sees Election Threats From China, Russia and Iran
    Aug08

    US Sees Election Threats From China, Russia and Iran

    The director of US intelligence on Friday raised concerns about interference in the 2020 election by China, Russia and Iran.U.S. intelligence has assessed that China is hoping President Donald Trump does not win reelection, Russia is working to denigrate Democrat Joe Biden and Iran is seeking to undermine democratic institutions, said Bill...

    DNI Warns For The First Time That Russia Wants To Damage Biden In The 2020 Election
    Aug08

    DNI Warns For The First Time That Russia Wants To Damage Biden In The 2020 Election

    The Russian government is supporting efforts to damage Joe Biden and boost President Trump, counterintelligence chief William Evanina said on Friday. The statement from Evanina also says that China”prefers” for Trump to lose re-election to Biden. The new announcement comes two weeks after Evanina released a similar, but less specific statement...

    The Leader of Europe’s ‘Last Dictatorship’ Is Facing an Unprecedented Challenge. Here’s What It Could Mean for Belarus
    Aug07

    The Leader of Europe’s ‘Last Dictatorship’ Is Facing an Unprecedented Challenge. Here’s What It Could Mean for Belarus

    Europe’s longest serving leader Alexander Lukashenko has long worked hard to seem invincible. He has dominated past elections that the U.S. has deemed neither free nor fair and brokered no dissent and suppressed protests. Now, he is facing an unprecedented challenge as he runs for a sixth term as president of Belarus in elections on August...

    Ukraine Port Has Ship Named Trump D With Three Times the Same Explosive That Blew Up Beirut
    Aug07

    Ukraine Port Has Ship Named Trump D With Three Times the Same Explosive That Blew Up Beirut

    Stephane Mahe/ReutersAn American-owned cargo ship named after the president of the United States docked in a Ukrainian port has just offloaded 10,000 metric tons of the same chemical substance that nearly leveled the city of Beirut this week, according to the Liveuamap news source. The hangar in Lebanon only had 2,750 metric tons of ammonium...

    At the Atlantic Council, Foreign Money Talks
    Aug07

    At the Atlantic Council, Foreign Money Talks

    When Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s bodyguards were arrested after attacking a crowd of protesters outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in May 2017, Erdogan and his crew were heading inside for a private, off-the-record meeting with Atlantic Council fellows and board members. That event is just one example of the close...

    Ukraine Reports Steady Rise in COVID Cases, Deaths
    Aug07

    Ukraine Reports Steady Rise in COVID Cases, Deaths

    KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine has recorded a steady daily increase in coronavirus cases in recent weeks and the health ministry is urging people to… …read more Source:: U.S....

    Justice Department seeks forfeiture of property from Ukrainian bank owners
    Aug07

    Justice Department seeks forfeiture of property from Ukrainian bank owners

    The Justice Department on Thursday moved to seize property from the owners of one of the largest banks in Ukraine for alleged money laundering. …read more Source:: United Press...

    Captain astonished that his ship delivered Beirut explosive
    Aug07

    Captain astonished that his ship delivered Beirut explosive

    MOSCOW (AP) — When Boris Prokoshev, a former sea captain spending his retirement years in a Russian village, woke up and found an email saying a ship he once commanded had carried the ammonium nitrate that blew up swathes of Beirut, he was astonished. “I didn’t understand anything,” he told The Associated Press on Thursday from Verkhnee...

    DOJ Accuses Ukrainian Oligarch Pushing Biden Disinfo Of Money Laundering Scheme
    Aug07

    DOJ Accuses Ukrainian Oligarch Pushing Biden Disinfo Of Money Laundering Scheme

    The Justice Department moved to seize the U.S. assets of a Ukrainian oligarch on Thursday who has sought to fuel the Trump administration’s quest for dirt about Joe Biden. In two separate court filings, the feds accused Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky of stealing billions of dollars from a bank he co-owned and laundering the proceeds...

    A Peek into Our Nuclear Future
    Aug05

    A Peek into Our Nuclear Future

    Seventy-five years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, one wonders what the next 75 might bring. Will nuclear weapons’ strategic status decline, much as chemical agents’ primacy did 75 years after their first use? Or will a future shot in anger validate the bomb’s security utility?The answer is unclear. Military advances in...