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According to Russian media reports, a Moscow court has sentenced Pyotr Verzilov, a Russian-Canadian activist and independent news site founder, to eight years and four months of imprisonment in absentia for social media posts criticising the war in Ukraine. Verzilov, 36, rose to prominence as the unofficial spokesperson of the feminist group
Nicholas Burns, the United States ambassador to China, will deliver the Harvard Kennedy School’s 2024 graduation address on May 22, the school announced last Wednesday. Burns — who served as a professor of diplomacy and international relations at the Kennedy School for 13 years — said in a press release he was “honored” to return. […]
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba (WMEC 907) returned to their homeport in Portsmouth, Monday, following a 52-day patrol in the Florida Straits and Windward Passage. Escanaba’s crew contributed to the interdiction and repatriation of over 100 migrants from Haiti and Cuba while patrolling in the Coast Guard Seventh District’s […]
At least 7.6 million existing AT&T account holders and 65.4 million former users hit by the breach, the company says. Personal information belonging to millions of past and present AT&T customers has been leaked online, including Social Security numbers (SSNs), passcodes and contact details, the multinational company says. In a statement on Saturday, the telecommunication […]
The United States has greenlighted the transfer of a new $2.5bn weapons package, comprising bombs and fighter jets, to Israel, according to US media reports. Despite expressing concern about civilian casualties in Gaza, the White House arms package includes more than 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound (900kg) bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound (225kg) bombs, according to Pentagon […]
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US says crackdown by Hong Kong officials includes new national security law targeting treason, espionage and other crimes. The United States has said it will impose new visa restrictions on a number of Hong Kong officials responsible for cracking down on “rights and freedoms”, days after a draconian national security law went into force in […]
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Louis Gossett Jr, the first Black man to win a best supporting actor Oscar for his performance as a hard-man drill instructor in “An Officer and a Gentleman,” has died. He was 87. Gossett’s family said he died Thursday night in Los Angeles without stating the cause, multiple US media outlets including CBS News reported. Gossett […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the peace plan proposed by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pointless as it is based on Moscow’s withdrawal from its captured areas. Lavrov told the Moscow daily Izvestia that a peace summit expected to be held in Switzerland based on Zelenskyy’s plan would not work until its fundamental bases […]