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Comatose Russian dissident visited by wife, aide in Germany

7:18 pm August 23, 2020

Berlin: Alexi Navalny wife and a top aide visited him Sunday in a Berlin hospital where the comatose Russian dissident is being treated by German doctors after a suspected poisoning. Navalny was flown to Germany on Saturday from Siberia after doctors determined he was stable enough to be brought to the capital’s Charité hospital for […]

British PM forced to defend India travel ban timing over Delta variant in Parliament

UK PM forced to cut short Scottish holiday amid security fears: Report

8:10 pm August 22, 2020

London: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been forced to cut short his holiday with fiancee Carrie Symonds and their baby son Wilfred and dog Dilyn after the location of their cottage in the Scottish Highlands was leaked, triggering security concerns, according to a media report. Johnson, 56, had taken time off for a so-called “staycation” within the UK during the peak summer […]

Plane carrying ‘poisoned’ Vladmir Putin critic Alexei Navalny lands in Germany

Plane carrying ‘poisoned’ Putin’s critic Navalny lands in Germany

2:16 pm August 22, 2020

Berlin: A plane carrying Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning, touched down early Saturday in Berlin, where he will be treated in the German capital’s main hospital. Navalny’s spokeswoman and a representative of the NGO that arranged the flight confirmed that the plane had landed. “Navalny is in […]

Belarus’ prosecutors open probe against opposition activists

9:36 pm August 20, 2020

Minsk: Belarusian authorities on Thursday opened a criminal probe against opposition activists who set up a council to negotiate the transition of power amid massive protests challenging the extension of the 26-year rule of the country’s authoritarian leader in a vote the opposition saw as rigged. President Alexander Lukashenko has dismissed the protesters as Western puppets and […]

Clashes erupt in Portland outside US immigration building

9:20 pm August 20, 2020

Portland: Protesters in Portland clashed with federal agents for the first time in weeks since July in a demonstration targeting a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement building that started Wednesday night and lasted until it was broken up early Thursday, officials said. The demonstrators spray painted windows on the building, broke several windows and shined […]