Advertising Read more Washington (AFP) At 88, Dan Smith has witnessed some of the defining moments in America’s fraught battle for racial equality. He protested in Alabama, marched on Washington with Martin Luther King Jr, and attended the inauguration of the first black president, Barack Obama. He also represents a living link to the nation’s […]
The United States has seized four tankers en route from Iran to Venezuela in what the Justice Department says is the government’s largest-ever seizure of fuel shipments from Iran. The Justice Department said on August 14 that U.S. law enforcement seized the cargo on the tankers — approximately 1.116 million barrels of petroleum — saying […]
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Issued on: 15/08/2020 – 00:20 Advertising Read more Lisbon (AFP) Barcelona’s embattled coach Quique Setien offered no indication that he would resign in the immediate aftermath of Friday’s 8-2 Champions League humiliation at the hands of Bayern Munich, as club president Josep Maria Bartomeu promised to “take decisions” in the coming days. “It’s too soon […]
BRUSSELS — European Union Neighborhood Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi has expressed his readiness to travel to Minsk on an EU fact-finding mission to gather information following the government’s crackdown on protests triggered by the August 9 presidential election, which the bloc has described as “neither free nor fair.” In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL after a […]
Issued on: 14/08/2020 – 20:26 Advertising Read more Istanbul (AFP) Turkey on Friday accused France of acting like a bully and hit out at Greece as EU foreign ministers confronted an emerging crisis in the energy-rich eastern Mediterranean. The search for oil and gas in disputed waters not far from Cyprus has pitted Turkey against […]
Belarus has released 32 Russian citizens who were detained near Minsk last month and accused of being mercenaries plotting to “destabilize” the situation in Belarus around the August 9 presidential election. The Russian Prosecutor-General’s Office posted a statement on August 14 that the men had been released and returned to Russia. He added that they […]
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Issued on: 14/08/2020 – 15:37 French Prime Minister Jean Castex led tributes to six French aid workers killed by suspected jihadists in Niger as their bodies arrived home in Paris on Friday. Watch the ceremony live on FRANCE 24. Advertising Read more The four women and two men were killed on Sunday along with their […]
Azerbaijan’s ambassador to Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Montenegro, Eldar Hasanov, has been detained on embezzlement charges. Azerbaijan’s State Security Service said in a statement on August 13 that Hasanov is suspected of embezzling from the Foreign Ministry’s consulate directorate. “The complex financial investigations revealed that the country’s ambassador to Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Montenegro, Eldar Hasanov, had […]