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    EU Sanctions Russian Intelligence, N.Korean, Chinese Firms over Alleged Cyberattacks
    Jul31

    EU Sanctions Russian Intelligence, N.Korean, Chinese Firms over Alleged Cyberattacks

    The European Union on Thursday imposed travel and financial sanctions on a department of Russia’s military intelligence service and on firms from North Korea and China over their suspected participation in major cyberattacks across the world.In its first-ever sanctions related to cybercrime, the EU targeted the department for special...

    Federalist Society Co-Founder Calls Trump Bid To Change Election Day ‘Fascistic,’ Impeachable
    Jul31

    Federalist Society Co-Founder Calls Trump Bid To Change Election Day ‘Fascistic,’ Impeachable

    The co-founder of the conservative legal organization the Federalist Society said Thursday that Trump’s bid to move Election Day was “fascistic” and worthy of impeachment. Steven Calabresi wrote in a New York Times op-ed that he’d voted for Trump, protested the Mueller investigation and opposed the President’s impeachment over...

    The Next High Crime
    Jul31

    The Next High Crime

    When Stanford University Professor Pamela Karlan testified on December 4, 2019, as the first witness in the House Judiciary Committee’s hearings on the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump, she unknowingly predicted the future. To make the corrupt and impeachable nature of Trump’s shakedown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr...

    Ukrainian Ex-President Kravchuk Takes Presidential Envoy Post In Group For Resolving Conflict
    Jul30

    Ukrainian Ex-President Kravchuk Takes Presidential Envoy Post In Group For Resolving Conflict

    Ukraine’s first President Leonid Kravchuk has agreed to take the post of presidential envoy in the trilateral contact group on resolving the armed conflict in the country’s east. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Belarus says Russians plotted attacks, Kremlin rolls eyes
    Jul30

    Belarus says Russians plotted attacks, Kremlin rolls eyes

    MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Thursday accused more than 30 detained Russians of plotting terror attacks amid a presidential election campaign, allegations that Russian officials angrily rejected. The grave accusations mark an unprecedented spike in tensions between Russia and Belarus, which are neighbors and traditionally...

    EU, in first-ever cyber sanctions, hits Russian intelligence
    Jul30

    EU, in first-ever cyber sanctions, hits Russian intelligence

    BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Thursday slapped sanctions on six people and three organizations, including Russia’s military intelligence agency, accusing them of responsibility for several cyber-attacks that threatened EU interests. EU headquarters said in a statement that those targeted include people considered to be involved in...

    China Has Squandered Its First Great Opportunity
    Jul30

    China Has Squandered Its First Great Opportunity

    Foreign-policy observers have long debated: What if Beijing were handed a golden opportunity to strut on the world stage, absent a more powerful United States? Would it seize the opportunity, acting for the good of all and convincing the globe of its peaceful intentions? Or would it pursue a cramped vision of national interest? The world has...

    Was Belarus’ Arrest of Russian Wagner Soldiers Staged in a Ploy to Postpone Elections?
    Jul30

    Was Belarus’ Arrest of Russian Wagner Soldiers Staged in a Ploy to Postpone Elections?

    Nikolai Petrov/BelTA Pool Photo via APMOSCOW—The videos were certainly not what Russians have come to expect from their country’s secret warriors abroad; powerful men in unmarked uniforms imposing Russian influence on at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...

    US Officials: Russia Behind Spread of Virus Disinformation
    Jul29

    US Officials: Russia Behind Spread of Virus Disinformation

    U.S. officials say Russian intelligence officers are spreading disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic through English-language websites, trying to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain before the presidential election in November. Two Russians who have held senior roles in Moscow’s military intelligence service known...

    Nobody’s Child: Inside Ukraine’s Controversial Surrogate Adoption Industry
    Jul29

    Nobody’s Child: Inside Ukraine’s Controversial Surrogate Adoption Industry

    Ukraine is one of the few countries in the world that allows commercial surrogacy. Biological parents, often from abroad, pay a company to organize a surrogate mother to carry their child. For some couples, it’s their only chance at longed-for parenthood. But when something goes wrong, human lives hang in the balance, and critics say the...