WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States believes mass protests in Belarus are calling on the government of longtime President Alexander Lukashenko “can no longer ignore” democracy there, a senior Trump administration official said. Monday. PHOTO PHOTO: US President Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump National Golf Club …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States believes mass protests in Belarus are calling on the government of longtime President Alexander Lukashenko “can no longer ignore” democracy there, a senior Trump administration official said. Monday. PHOTO PHOTO: US President Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump National Golf Club …
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MINSK (Reuters) – Belarussian Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday he would be ready to hand over power in a referendum, in an apparent bid to pacify mass protests and strikes, the biggest challenge for his 26-year-old son years in the office. He made the offer, which he insisted would not …
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – A comic strip story in Australia’s largest national newspaper on Friday drew condemnation as racist for portraying US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden who described his new running mate, Kamala Harris, as “this little brown girl “. PHILO PHOTO: U.S. Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris …
Read More »Exclusive: ByteDance censors anti-China content in Indonesia until mid-2020 – sources
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Chinese tech giant ByteDance censored content that it considered critical of the Chinese government on its news aggregator app in Indonesia from 2018 to mid-2020, six people with direct knowledge of the case told Reuters. Logos of Bytedance, the China-based company that shows the short video app …
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