(Reuters) – Thousands took to the streets in Russia’s far eastern city of Khabarovsk on Saturday to protest President Vladimir Putin’s handling of the regional political crisis and the suspected poisoning of his most vocal critic. Protesters chanted “Putin, have some tea,” in the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, …
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MINSK / KYIV (Reuters) – With a bunch of flowers and surrounded by clapping supporters, Belarus’s most famous writer has given a powerful voice to the opposition against President Alexander Lukashenko, even though she has so far barred a leadership role. nobody. FILE PHOTO: The 2015 Nobel Prize winner for …
Read More »NBA star LeBron James emerges as potent political force ahead of US election in November
(Reuters) – Two years after a conservative commentator LeBron James told “to keep quiet and dribble”, the NBA star has become an increasingly influential political force, as issues of racial rights and voter oppression come to the fore come in the November presidential election. FILE PHOTO: NBA basketball player LeBron …
Read More »The Supreme Court of Israel rules for removal of colonial houses from Palestinian land
FILE PHOTO: A General View of Houses in Mitzpe Kramim’s Jewish Outpost on the Israeli Occupied West Bank, June 18, REUTERS / Ronen Zvulun / File Photo JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a cluster of houses in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West …
Read More »US, China trade jibes as military tensions worsen
(Reuters) – US and China trade jibes as military tensions grow between the world’s two largest economies, with the US Secretary of Defense promising not to “give an inch” in the Pacific and China saying Washington risked the lives of soldiers. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper listens …
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