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    Gift to Russian minister triggers diplomatic probe in Bosnia
    Dec17

    Gift to Russian minister triggers diplomatic probe in Bosnia

    SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) – Bosnia’s authorities opened an investigation Thursday into how a possibly stolen 300-year-old gilded icon from Ukraine ended up being given as a gift to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The presiding Serb member of Bosnia’s three-member presidency, Milorad Dodik, gave the religious...

    EU prolongs sanctions against Russia over Ukraine conflict
    Dec17

    EU prolongs sanctions against Russia over Ukraine conflict

    BRUSSELS (AP) – The European Union on Thursday formally prolonged for six months economic sanctions against Russia over the country’s failure to live up to commitments to the peace agreement in Ukraine. The measures target Russia’s financial, energy and defense sectors, as well as goods that can be used for … …read...

    EU prolongs sanctions against Russia over Ukraine conflict
    Dec17

    EU prolongs sanctions against Russia over Ukraine conflict

    The European Union is prolonging its economic sanctions against Russia for six months for the country’s failure to live up to its commitments to the peace agreement in Ukraine …read more Source:: ABC...

    Gift to Russian minister triggers diplomatic probe in Bosnia
    Dec17

    Gift to Russian minister triggers diplomatic probe in Bosnia

    Authorities in Sarajevo are probing how a possibly stolen 300-year-old gilded icon from Ukraine ended up being given as a gift from Bosnia’s Serb leader to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov …read more Source:: ABC...

    Take a wild guess who won PolitiFact fact-checkers’ ‘Lie of the Year’ award
    Dec17

    Take a wild guess who won PolitiFact fact-checkers’ ‘Lie of the Year’ award

    The fact-checkers at Politifact this year have handed their annual “Lie of the Year” award to President Donald Trump and his supporters’ coronavirus denialism, including any “claims that deny, downplay or disinform about COVID-19.””President Donald J. Trump fueled confusion and conspiracies from the earliest...

    What America Needs Now Is a President Who Will Go Nuclear on the Justice Department
    Dec17

    What America Needs Now Is a President Who Will Go Nuclear on the Justice Department

    As President-elect Joe Biden takes office in January, the Justice Department will be probing more than a few sensitive political matters. His son Hunter Biden said last week that he is under investigation for “tax affairs” by federal prosecutors in Delaware. Outgoing Attorney General Bill Barr appointed U.S. attorney John Durham as a special...

    Influential Eastern Ukrainian Mayor Dies In Germany After COVID Battle
    Dec17

    Influential Eastern Ukrainian Mayor Dies In Germany After COVID Battle

    One of Ukraine’s most influential and outspoken politicians, Hennadiy Kernes, the mayor of the eastern city of Kharkiv, has died of complications from COVID-19. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Bill Barr was Trump’s biggest enabler — but his real legacy is even darker
    Dec16

    Bill Barr was Trump’s biggest enabler — but his real legacy is even darker

    Poor Bill Barr.After all that he did for President Trump, Barr was forced out of his job as Attorney General anyway for failing to hurl himself over a cliff as a human sacrifice. Trump wanted him to use the Department of Justice to help overturn the election which even Barr wasn’t able to finesse. And Trump just couldn’t forgive him...

    A Photographic Trove Of Village Life In Postwar Ukraine
    Dec16

    A Photographic Trove Of Village Life In Postwar Ukraine

    In the attic of an old house, artist Ihor Solodovnikov stumbled on a collection of 5,000 photographs taken by his grandfather. The images preserve the faces of Ukrainian villagers in the postwar period and the folk traditions that were rarely, if ever, captured by official Soviet photographers. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    The House Voted a Year Ago to Impeach Trump. Here’s What You Need to Know About That.
    Dec16

    The House Voted a Year Ago to Impeach Trump. Here’s What You Need to Know About That.

    Dec. 18 will mark one year since the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump. Looking back, what happened “behind the scenes” of the impeachment proceedings? Fred Lucas, the chief national affairs correspondent for The Daily Signal and author of “Abuse of Power: Inside the Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump,”...