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Kremlin Critic Jailed For 25 Years

Kremlin Critic Jailed For 25 Years

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a prominent Kremlin critic who has previously survived two suspected poisoning attempts, was on Monday sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment after publicly condemning Moscow's war in Ukraine. He was detained last year and charged with treason, spreading fake news about the Russ...

Russia

Russia Won't 'Tolerate' US Pressure Over WSJ Reporter, Says Deputy Foreign Minister

Russia Won't 'Tolerate' US Pressure Over WSJ Reporter, Says Deputy Foreign Minister

Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's deputy foreign minister, said on Wednesday that Russia was considering granting US diplomats consular access to Evan Gershkovich — the Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia on espionage charges — but warned that Moscow 'will not tolerate' any attempts from t...

Weapons

Leaked US Document: Egypt Secretly Planned to Supply Rockets to Russia

Leaked US Document: Egypt Secretly Planned to Supply Rockets to Russia

Egypt, a key US ally in the Middle East, sought to supply Russia with 40K rockets in addition to artillery shells and gunpowder, according to a leaked US intelligence document acquired by the Washington Post this week....

Weapons

British, Australian Lawmakers Call on US to Drop Assange Prosecution

British, Australian Lawmakers Call on US to Drop Assange Prosecution

British and Australian lawmakers on Tuesday called on the US to drop its prosecution of imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, marking the four-year anniversary of his imprisonment at Belmarsh prison....

Headlines

US Think Tank: Russia Continues to Make Gains in Bakhmut

US Think Tank: Russia Continues to Make Gains in Bakhmut

On Monday, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a US military think tank, confirmed Russian advances in the city of Bakhmut after Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian mercenary force Wagner PMC, claimed to have captured its center and raised the Russian flag over its city hall on Sunday ni...

Terrorism

Twitter Strips Check Mark for New York Times

Twitter Strips Check Mark for New York Times

Twitter has removed its verification check mark from the site's main profile of the New York Times....

Media

Ukraine Rails Against Russia's UN Security Council Presidency

Ukraine Rails Against Russia's UN Security Council Presidency

Russia took up the monthly presidency of the United Nations Security Council on Saturday, which Ukrainian Pres. Zelensky characterized it as an 'absurd and destructive' move....

Russia

Biden Calls on Russia to Release US Journalist

Biden Calls on Russia to Release US Journalist

In making his first remarks on the case, US Pres. Joe Biden on Friday called on Russia to release Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter arrested on espionage charges earlier this week....

Russia

Farmers’ Protest Brings Brussels’ EU Quarter to a Standstill

Farmers’ Protest Brings Brussels’ EU Quarter to a Standstill

Thousands of Belgian farmers brought traffic in Brussels to a standstill on Friday as they protested the Flemish regional government's plans to limit nitrogen emissions from agriculture. Thousands of tractors and other agricultural vehicles blocked roads leading into the capital city, while prote...

Agriculture

SCOTUS to Hear Two Landmark Cases on Internet Speech

SCOTUS to Hear Two Landmark Cases on Internet Speech

The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is slated to hear a pair of cases this week relating to the regulation of content posted online. Specifically, the cases focus on Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act which protects online platforms from being sued over content posted by their users....

Metaculus

Project Veritas: Pfizer Director Allegedly Concerned Over Vaccine Effect on Reproductive Health

Project Veritas: Pfizer Director Allegedly Concerned Over Vaccine Effect on Reproductive Health

In a new video released by Project Veritas — a US undercover journalism outlet — on Thursday, an alleged Pfizer director appears to share concerns about the COVID vaccine's potentially negative effects on women’s reproductive health

Research

Supreme Court Considering Cases to Determine Tenets of Online Speech

Supreme Court Considering Cases to Determine Tenets of Online Speech

SCOTUS could consider cases that dramatically alter the rules governing online speech and the protections given to big tech platforms as, on Friday, it will discuss whether to hear two cases challenging Florida and Texas laws prohibiting platforms from censoring political speech

Freedom of speech & expression

News Groups Urge US to Drop Assange Charges

News Groups Urge US to Drop Assange Charges

Twelve years on from publishing the “Cablegate” disclosures alongside WikiLeaks, The New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and El País on Monday issued a joint letter urging the US government to drop its prosecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange....

Headlines