Posts by Newsmaker

Elon Musk Restores X Account of Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones

Elon Musk Restores X Account of Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones

Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pointing to a poll on the social media...

Britain Says Russian Missile Launch in Ukraine Failed 

Britain Says Russian Missile Launch in Ukraine Failed 

The British Defense Ministry said Sunday in its daily intelligence update on Ukraine that Russia has “almost certainly been stockpiling”...

A Look at History of Crimean Tatars in Ukraine

A Look at History of Crimean Tatars in Ukraine

The September 2023 appointment of Rustem Umerov as Ukraine’s defense minister was well received at home and abroad.   Noted...

Russia Puts Prominent Russian-American Journalist on Wanted List

Russia Puts Prominent Russian-American Journalist on Wanted List

Russian police have put prominent Russian American journalist and author Masha Gessen on a wanted list after opening a criminal...

Universal Declaration of Human Rights Turns 75

Universal Declaration of Human Rights Turns 75

On December 10, 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the hope of creating a...

US-Russian Dual National Detained for ‘Rehabilitating Nazism’

US-Russian Dual National Detained for ‘Rehabilitating Nazism’

A man with dual U.S.-Russian nationality has been placed in pre-trial custody in St. Petersburg for “rehabilitating Nazism” in posts...

Iran Starts Trial of Swedish EU Employee Detained in 2022

Iran Starts Trial of Swedish EU Employee Detained in 2022

An Iranian court has begun the trial of a Swedish national employed by the European Union who was detained last...

Mahsa Amini’s Family Blocked From Leaving Iran for EU Rights Prize

Mahsa Amini’s Family Blocked From Leaving Iran for EU Rights Prize

The family of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Kurdish woman who died in custody, has been banned from traveling to France...

Polish Truck Drivers’ Border Blockade With Ukraine Hurting Battlefield

Polish Truck Drivers’ Border Blockade With Ukraine Hurting Battlefield

Pickup trucks and tourniquets bound for Ukraine’s battlefield are among items stuck in a miles-long line at the border with...

Hospital Fire Near Rome Kills 3, Forces Emergency Evacuation of Patients

Hospital Fire Near Rome Kills 3, Forces Emergency Evacuation of Patients

A fire broke out in a hospital on Rome’s outskirts, killing at least three people and forcing the overnight evacuation...

Understanding Carbon Capture and Its Discussion at COP28

Understanding Carbon Capture and Its Discussion at COP28

The future of fossil fuels is at the center of the United Nations climate summit in Dubai, where many activists,...

Belarus Opposition Planning to Issue Passports for Exiles  

Belarus Opposition Planning to Issue Passports for Exiles  

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya says she and her cabinet are planning to issue passports next year that could ease...

Europe Reaches Deal on World’s First Comprehensive AI Rules

Europe Reaches Deal on World’s First Comprehensive AI Rules

European Union negotiators clinched a deal Friday on the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence rules, paving the way for legal...

German Foreign Minister Discusses Prisoners With Iranian Counterpart

German Foreign Minister Discusses Prisoners With Iranian Counterpart

Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock discussed the fate of Germans held in Iran Friday with her Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian,...

Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure Crumbling Under Russian Attacks

Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure Crumbling Under Russian Attacks

Russian airstrikes, shelling and bad weather have damaged Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, leaving 500 settlements in intermittent energy blackouts. Ukraine’s grid...

Central Asian Trade Corridor Gains Interest Amid Regional Tensions

Central Asian Trade Corridor Gains Interest Amid Regional Tensions

The emergence of a Middle Corridor — a transit network linking Asia with European markets by way of Central Asia,...

Kremlin Propaganda on Uptick in Latin America

Kremlin Propaganda on Uptick in Latin America

Javier Vrox, the host of a political program on a YouTube channel in Chile who constantly monitors social networks in...

The Geopolitics of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

The Geopolitics of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

Rights Group Claims Company Intimidates Communities Along Tanzania-Uganda Oil Pipeline

Rights Group Claims Company Intimidates Communities Along Tanzania-Uganda Oil Pipeline

The French oil company TotalEnergies coerces and intimidates communities affected by the $5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline project...

Japan Pledges $4.5 Billion to Ukraine

Japan Pledges $4.5 Billion to Ukraine

Japan has pledged $4.5 billion to Ukraine for its war against Russia, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced Thursday, $1...

White House and Republicans Stuck in Ukraine Funding Impasse

White House and Republicans Stuck in Ukraine Funding Impasse

The Biden administration is running out of time to secure a deal on tens of billions of dollars in wartime...

Lviv, the City That Became the Backbone of Ukraine’s Resistance

Lviv, the City That Became the Backbone of Ukraine’s Resistance

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the western Ukrainian town of Lviv has become a refuge and transit...