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Evan Gershkovich is accused of espionage and could face up to 20 years in prison
US journalist in court as spy trial starts in Russia
By Steve RosenbergYEKATERINBURG — For nearly fifteen months, Evan Gershkovich has been locked away in a Moscow jail.Today the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter went on trial a thousand miles from the Russian capital in Yekaterinburg: the city where he was arrested on espionage charges while on a reporting trip for the Wall Street Journal.We were among the group of media allowed into a courtroom to see him before the start of proceedings at the Sverdlovsk Regional Courthouse.Head shaven, and wearing a check shirt and jeans, Gershkovich stood in the metal and glass cage known in Russian courtrooms as "the aquarium". He smiled to cameras, but made no comment.After a few minutes, we were asked to leave the room. From this point on this trial will be held behind closed...
June 26, 2024

US journalist in court as spy trial starts in Russia

French President Emmanuel Macron
Macron's election gamble puts French democracy on the table
PARIS — Two neighboring countries are approaching elections that were called out of the blue.Both have governments that are expected to fall.In both countries, political tensions have divided families and friends.Stop. At this point, all attempts to draw parallels between the British and French elections must cease.Because however much might be at issue in the UK election — and there is much — it pales next to the stakes that have been raised across the channel.Here in France, it is not just the fate of a government or a leader that is in the air – but of a political system.And the risks are not of disappointed hopes and crushed careers, as in a peacefully functioning democracy, but of actual violence.“The situations are very different,” says veteran French commentator Nicolas...
June 26, 2024

Macron's election gamble puts French democracy on the table

President Zelensky appointed Lt-Gen Yuriy Sodol (right) earlier this year
Zelensky sacks top general accused of incompetence
KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed a top general after public criticism about excessive casualties and accusations of incompetence.Lt Gen Yuriy Sodol has been in the post of commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since earlier this year.Brig-Gen Andriy Hnatov has now been appointed in his stead.Mr Zelensky did not give a reason for his decision, which he announced during his nightly video address on Monday.However, only hours before, the chief of staff of the Azov Brigade, Maj Bohdan Krotevych, filed a complaint to the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), alleging that Gen Sodol "had more Ukrainian soldiers killed than any Russian general".Maj Krotevych wrote on Telegram that Gen Sodol was "not being investigated for the loss...
June 25, 2024

Zelensky sacks top general accused of incompetence

Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at Westminster Magistrates court on April 11, 2019 in London, England
Julian Assange released from UK prison, flying back to Australia after US plea deal
LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was released from a British prison and was making his way back to his home country Australia on Monday after his 12-year battle against extradition to the United States ended in a plea deal.The controversial figure has spent the past five years in a high-security UK prison and nearly seven years before that holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, trying to avoid arrest that could have led to life imprisonment.On Monday, Assange, 52, agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge related to his alleged role in one of the largest US government breaches of classified materials after his whistleblowing website published nearly half a million secret military documents relating to the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.The plea deal caps a long-running...
June 25, 2024

Julian Assange released from UK prison, flying back to Australia after US plea deal

This screen grab from a Readovka News via Telegram video purports to show the aftermath of a strike on the city of Sevastopol
At least 5 dead after missile fragments scatter over beachgoers in Russian-held Crimea
KYIV — At least five people were killed and over 100 injured when missile fragments scattered over beachgoers during a Ukrainian strike on the city of Sevastopol in Russia-occupied Crimea, authorities say.“Unfortunately, we currently have 124 victims, of which three [are] dead children and two [are] dead adults,” Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said on Telegram.The Russian Ministry of Defense said in a post on Telegram that Ukraine carried out the attack using “US-supplied ATACMS operational-tactical missiles equipped with cluster warheads.”Four missiles were shot down by Russian air defense but another “deviated from its flight trajectory in the final section due to the impact of air defenses, with the warhead exploding in the air over the city,” the post added.Video...
June 24, 2024

At least 5 dead after missile fragments scatter over beachgoers in Russian-held Crimea

Princess Anne
UK's Princess Anne hospitalized with minor injuries after incident at her home
LONDON — Princess Anne, the sister of King Charles III, has been hospitalized as a precaution after she sustained minor injuries and a concussion in an “incident” at her home, Buckingham Palace has said in a statement.A royal source told CNN that Anne, 73, was walking near horses in her Gatcombe Park estate, in Gloucestershire, western England, when she suffered minor injuries to her head.While the exact cause of these injuries is unconfirmed, Princess Anne’s medical team say that her head injuries are consistent with a potential impact from a horse’s head or legs.Emergency services were sent to the estate and, after medical care at the scene, she was transferred to Southmead Hospital in Bristol for appropriate tests, treatment and observation.“The Princess Royal has sustained...
June 24, 2024

UK's Princess Anne hospitalized with minor injuries after incident at her home

Pro-independence supporters object to the detention of activists in New Caledonia
Protests flare up in New Caledonia as France detains activists
PARIS — Protests in New Caledonia have flared up after seven pro-independence activists were detained and taken to France for their alleged role in orchestrating riots against a controversial voting reform bill.A town hall, police station and several other buildings were set alight across New Caledonia, France's high commission to the South Pacific territory said.Among those flown to mainland France was Christian Tein, who was charged in connection with riots, looting and arson last month in which nine people were killed.The violence broke out over plans to extend voting rights to people who had lived in New Caledonia for more than 10 years. Macron then visited the territory and suspended the proposed reforms to allow "a return to order".New Caledonia's French high...
June 24, 2024

Protests flare up in New Caledonia as France detains activists

Police set a crime scene tape near a suspicious car, background, in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015
Gunmen kill police officers in Russia's Dagestan after attack on synagogue
MOSCOW — At least 15 policemen have been killed in an attack that hit a synagogue, a church and a police post in Russia's North Caucasus region.More than 15 police officers and several civilians, including an Orthodox priest, were killed by armed militants in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan on Sunday, its governor Sergei Melikov said in a video statement early Monday.The gunmen opened fire on two Orthodox churches, a synagogue and a police post in two cities, according to the authorities.Russia’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee described the attacks in the predominantly Muslim region with a history of armed insurgency as terrorist acts.Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were declared days of mourning in the region.Dagestan's Interior Ministry said a group of armed men...
June 24, 2024

Gunmen kill police officers in Russia's Dagestan after attack on synagogue

A neighbourhood in the Donetsk oblast following an aerial bomb attack on June 21
Russia launches 'massive' attack on Ukrainian power grid
KYIV — Ukraine says its energy facilities have come under a “massive” attack from Russia overnight, in the latest onslaught targeting the country's power grid.It is the eighth time Russia has launched an attack on energy infrastructure facilities in the past three months, Ukraine’s energy ministry said.Air defense systems shot down 12 of 16 missiles and all 13 drones launched by Russia at several regions through the night, the Ukrainian air force said.Two energy workers were wounded and taken to hospital in the Zaporizhzhia region, and energy equipment was damaged in the Western city of Lviv, officials added.In the southwestern region of Ivano-Frankivsk, the authorities also reported damage to houses and a kindergarten.Russia has renewed its campaign of strikes on Ukrainian...
June 22, 2024

Russia launches 'massive' attack on Ukrainian power grid

Nigel Farage
Rivals attack Farage for saying West provoked Ukraine war
LONDON — Nigel Farage has been criticized for suggesting the West "provoked" Russia's invasion of Ukraine by expanding the European Union and Nato military alliance eastward.The Reform UK leader told the BBC that "of course" the war was President Vladimir Putin's fault.But he added that the expansion of the EU and Nato gave him a "reason" to tell the Russian people "they're coming for us again".Conservative Home Secretary James Cleverly said Farage was echoing Putin's "vile justification" for the war and Labour branded him "unfit" for any political office.The former UKIP leader later said he was one of "the few figures" who had been "consistent and honest" on the issue.In an interview with the...
June 22, 2024

Rivals attack Farage for saying West provoked Ukraine war

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