Month: September 2017

Ukrainian diplomats have visited a Ukrainian teenager held in Russian custody on terrorism-related charges for the first time since his arrest. …

President Donald Trump has suggested that the United States will walk away from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers if it deems that the UN’s atomic agency is not tough enough in monitoring it. …

“One clear lesson is that you can’t fight propaganda with propaganda,” says Tetiana Popova. “If you do that you lose credibility yourself and bring all facts into doubt,” adds the former Ukrainian deputy minister for information policy. “And that is what the Russians want,” she said firmly. Now working with the Ukrainian media NGO Information …

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Iraq’s supreme court has approved a request by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to suspend an independence referendum that the country’s Kurdistan region planned to hold later this month. The court said Monday the vote will be on hold until it reviews cases regarding the constitutionality of the vote. Abadi has repeatedly spoken out against the …

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A petition has been filed with India’s Supreme Court, challenging the government’s plan to deport as many as 40,000 Rohingya who have fled Myanmar. The top court began hearing the plea Monday. The government said in a statement to the court that the Rohingya are “illegal” immigrants and some of them pose “a very serious …

Read more “India Seeks Deportation of Rohingya for Security Reasons”

A Russian court has delayed hearings in a lawsuit filed by German conglomerate Siemens against a Russian state firm over the transfer of power turbines to Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea region. …

Russian authorities said a rash of anonymous bomb threats that have prompted the evacuation of schools, shopping malls, train stations, and other buildings continued on September 18. …

American television’s biggest stars are walking the red carpet Sunday in Los Angeles, posing for photos and interviews before the 69th annual Emmy awards presentation. Late-night talk show personality Stephen Colbert will host the award show, which is sure to get political this year.  Colbert, who’s Late Show often pokes fun at President Donald Trump …

Read more “2017 Emmys: New Shows, New Platforms, and Politics”

Hundreds of people took part in a rally in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, on September 17 to denounce a new electoral law. The crowd chanted slogans such as “We will not give up” and “Victory!” Reaching the headquarters of the Moldovan public television, the protesters called for an increase in television time provided to the …

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Following days of talks Egyptian mediators have gotten rival Palestinian factions to agree to reconcile, although Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah group is insisting rival Hamas implement the conditions it has agreed to before taking the next step. Efforts to resolve a decade-old schism between the two main Palestinian factions appears to be coming …

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A look at the best news photos from around the world. …

After a new park was unveiled in Moscow’s center, visitors descended on it in droves, reportedly trampling lawns and flowers, breaking a glass dome and floor lighting. The authorities are already having to repair the damage, adding another wrinkle to a project derided for its exorbitant price tag. …

Hundreds of gay-rights activists attended a pride march in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, on September 17 under massive police supervision. Among the participants was Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, the country’s first-ever female head of government and the first high-ranking LGBT politician in the Balkans. A handful of counterprotesters along the march route included Orthodox clergy. …

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Advances in North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs are pushing the international community to respond with increasingly strict sets of sanctions, with the latest round, passed this week, capping the country’s oil imports while banning its lucrative textile exports. Despite the pressure, the Kim Jong Un regime continues to pursue the development of a nuclear-tipped …

Read more “Former CIA Chief Warns of N. Korea’s Other Nuclear Weapon “

Hundreds of people marched in Athens, Greece, Saturday in an anti-racism protest to commemorate the killing of an activist rapper by a member of the Greek ultranationalist political party Golden Dawn. Scuffles broke out between police and a few dozen protesters who broke off from the march and began heading toward the Golden Dawn offices. …

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Hurricane season roared on Saturday as Jose threatened heavy surf along the U.S. East Coast, Tropical Storm Norma edged toward Mexico’s resort-studded Baja California Peninsula, and Tropical Storm Maria formed in the Atlantic and was expected to strengthen into a hurricane, taking aim at some already battered Caribbean islands. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Lee formed in …

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Ukraine’s top prosecutor has said former Georgian President and Ukrainian regional governor Mikheil Saakashvili will not be arrested for defying authorities with his dramatic return to the country after his citizenship was canceled. …