KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands of women marched through the capital of Belarus on Saturday, calling for the resignation of the authoritarian president, and university students demonstrated against the detention of classmates during the wave of protests gripping the country for four weeks. For the first time in the demonstrations, supporters of...

Sep04

A Ukrainian airline banned a passenger for life after she opened a jet’s emergency exit door and walked around on the wing

Friday, September 4 , 2020 - 20:02 (EET) Section: Business Insider (USA)

A passenger flying Ukraine International Airlines opened an emergency exit door and walked out on the wing after reportedly being “too hot.” Maxym Marusenko/Getty A passenger flying Ukraine International Airlines opened an overwing emergency exit door on Monday to cool down after reportedly being “too hot,” CNN reported....

Sep04

Students, IT workers keep pressure on defiant Belarus leader

Friday, September 4 , 2020 - 17:02 (EET) Section: KXAN (USA)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators rallied again in Belarus’ capital Friday to protest the disputed reelection of the nation’s authoritarian president, while police dispersed university students attempting to show solidarity with peers who were detained earlier in the week. Information technology workers and other...

Sep04

Trump’s True Relationship With Russia Has Never Been Revealed

Friday, September 4 , 2020 - 16:02 (EET) Section: The Atlantic (USA)

Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The AtlanticFate offered Peter Strzok a place in history that he never sought. The son of an Army officer, Strzok also served in the United States military before joining the FBI’s counterintelligence operation in 1996. He excelled at his job: In 2001, he was part of the team that tracked and arrested a network of...

Sep03

Why Putin deliberately uses Novichok to poison his enemies, even though it often fails to kill them

Thursday, September 3 , 2020 - 18:02 (EET) Section: Business Insider (USA)

Russian President Putin takes part in a video conference call at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia June 20, 2020. Reuters German doctors have accused Russia of poisoning top critic Alexei Navalny with the Novichok nerve agent in late August. Though Novichok was developed in the Soviet Union in 1970s, the Russian state has...

Sep03

Portugal: Young climate activists take 33 countries to court

Thursday, September 3 , 2020 - 16:02 (EET) Section: KXAN (USA)

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Six young Portuguese activists launched Thursday a European human rights case against 33 countries in the latest legal effort to force governments to step up their fight against climate change. The six filed a claim Thursday asking the European Court of Human Rights to hold the countries accountable for their allegedly...

Sep03

Pressure grows for Germany to rethink pipeline with Russia

Thursday, September 3 , 2020 - 16:02 (EET) Section: KXAN (USA)

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced pressure on Thursday to use a joint German-Russian pipeline project as leverage in getting Russia to provide answers about the poisoning of the Kremlin’s most determined critic. After German authorities said Wednesday that tests showed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned...

Sep03

Belarus leader reshuffles lieutenants to tighten control

Thursday, September 3 , 2020 - 15:02 (EET) Section: KXAN (USA)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian leader on Thursday reshuffled his top lieutenants in an apparent attempt to strengthen his rule amid weeks of protests pushing for his resignation. President Alexander Lukashenko promoted Valery Vakulchik, who led the state security agency that still goes under the Soviet-era name of KGB, to be...

Sep03

The Time to Act is Now

Thursday, September 3 , 2020 - 1:02 (EET) Section: The American Interest (USA)

In the contemporary era, where the meaning of historic events is increasingly muddled by “competing narratives”, the political crisis in Belarus offers the world a satisfying case of moral clarity. In his August 28, 2020 remarks in Vienna, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun proclaimed, “It is clear to me—and I hope it is clear to...

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Thousands of women in Belarus protest against Lukashenko

A Ukrainian airline banned a passenger for life after she opened a jet’s emergency exit door and walked around on the wing

Students, IT workers keep pressure on defiant Belarus leader

Trump’s True Relationship With Russia Has Never Been Revealed

Why Putin deliberately uses Novichok to poison his enemies, even though it often fails to kill them

Portugal: Young climate activists take 33 countries to court

Pressure grows for Germany to rethink pipeline with Russia

Belarus leader reshuffles lieutenants to tighten control

The Time to Act is Now

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