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Top Belarus activist says authorities threatened to kill her

6:53 pm September 10, 2020

Kyiv: A prominent opposition activist who resisted her forcible expulsion from Belarus by ripping up her passport accused Belarusian authorities Thursday of threatening to kill her amid their efforts to end a month of protests against the country’s authoritarian president. Maria Kolesnikova said in a formal complaint released by her lawyer that agents of Belarus’ state […]

Russian interference could theoretically cost Democrats presidential elections: Kamala Harris

11:32 pm September 6, 2020

Washington: Russian interference could theoretically cost Democrats the presidential elections, party’s vice-presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris said on Sunday. “I am clear that Russia interfered in the election of president of the United States in 2016,” Harris told CNN in an interview. “I serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee. We have published detailed reports about exactly what we believe happened. And I do […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Racial tensions roiling US pose target for election meddling

8:46 pm September 5, 2020

Washington: The tensions coursing through the United States over racism and policing are likely targets for adversaries seeking to influence the November election, lawmakers and experts warn — and there are signs that Russia is again seeking to exploit the divide. Earlier this year, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pulled down dozens of accounts with names like “Blacks Facts Untold” that […]

Commerce secretary sued in plan to move whales for research

10:57 pm September 4, 2020

Hartford: An animals rights group is suing in federal court to stop a Connecticut aquarium from acquiring five more beluga whales for research, saying they would be harmed by the trip from Canada and by being torn from long-term relationships with others of their species. Friends of Animals, based in Darien, Connecticut, filed the lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court against […]

WHO report on Wuhan virus mission expected soon

Members named to panel probing WHO’s pandemic response

8:42 pm September 3, 2020

London: An independent panel appointed by the World Health Organization to review its coordination of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic will have full access to any internal U.N. agency documents, materials and emails necessary, the panel said Thursday as it begins the probe. The panel’s co-chairs, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former […]