WASHINGTON / LONDON (Reuters) – When Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in 2016, almost immediately, and with apparent pleasure, he set out to try to demolish Barack Obama’s carefully inherited foreign policy legacy. FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden accepts the nomination of the …
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Navalny is being treated at a hospital in Berlin after falling ill last week on a flight from Siberia. He was transferred to the German capital of the Siberian city of Omsk on Saturday morning. “We are dealing with a patient who, it is quite likely, was poisoned,” Chancellor Angela …
Read More »Belarus’s Lukashenko carries assault rifle
Thousands of people gather for a protest in Independence Square. Demonstrators take to the streets in the Belarusian capital and other cities and remain pressured to oust President Lukashenko. Ulf Mauder | picture alliance via Getty Images Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Belarus’ capital Minsk over the weekend, …
Read More »Exclusive: Cyprus sells passports to ‘politically exposed persons’ | News
An enormous leak of confidential Cypriot government documents obtained by Al Jazeera’s investigative unit called The Cyprus Papers reveals that dozens of high-level officials and their families bought so-called “golden passports” from Cyprus between late 2017 and late 2019. Among those who bought the passports, a minimum investment of $ …
Read More »Russian doctors claim Kremlin critic saves Navalny’s life | Russia News
Doctors at the Siberian hospital that first treated Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Monday they had saved his life but found no trace of poison in his system. Navalny, a longtime opponent of President Vladimir Putin, fell seriously ill on Thursday after what his allies believe was poisoning and …
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