Trump, Russia and China media attacks ‘threaten democracy’ Paris (AFP) – Press freedom around the world is under threat from a triple whammy of US President Donald Trump, Russia and China’s bid to crush all dissent, a watchdog said Wednesday. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warned that a “climate of hatred […]
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In Berlin, a Show of Solidarity Does Little to Dampen Jewish Fears After an attack on a young Israeli wearing a kipa in a trendy Berlin neighborhood, the leader of Germany’s largest Jewish organization urged Jews to wear baseball caps instead. It was just too dangerous, he said, to walk […]
Trump officials warn of arrests as migrant caravan reaches U.S. border Hundreds of Central American migrants from a caravan through Mexico reunited in Tijuana on Wednesday and planned to cross into the United States together this weekend, in defiance of threats by President Donald Trump to repel them. The timing […]
After hugging Trump, Macron tears down Trumpism Before French President Emmanuel Macron delivered an address at a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday, the headlines about his trip to Washington centered on his apparent “bromance” with President Trump. On Tuesday, the duo engaged in a series of physical embraces and […]
Understanding Kim: Inside the U.S. effort to profile the secretive North Korean leader U.S. intelligence experts are trying to build a profile of Kim Jong Un to give President Donald Trump a competitive edge in one of the most consequential summits since the Cold War, but they face a huge […]
Australians Commemorate 103rd Anniversary of WWI Battle Australians gathered with descendants of former allies and enemies around the country, on a Turkish coast and in a French town Wednesday in dawn services to commemorate the moment when Australian and New Zealand Army Corps troops waded ashore at the Gallipoli peninsula […]
America Must Come to Terms with Reality in Syria The joint attack carried out by the United States, United Kingdom and France on April 14 in Syria—targeting three sites related to Assad’s chemical weapons program—was a firm reaction and punishment for Assad’s continued use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians. […]
China fears Kim is moving out of its orbit as South Korea, US talks loom China and North Korea boast an alliance forged in blood — more than 130,000 Chinese troops, including the son of Mao Zedong, died defending the North during the Korean War — but the relationship has […]
What Is an Incel? Explaining a Term Used by the Toronto Van Attack Suspect Minutes before turning his van onto a Toronto sidewalk on Monday, killing 10 people and injuring more than a dozen others, Alek Minassian wrote a post on Facebook, according to the Canadian authorities. In it, he […]
Jeff Sessions Is Serving, and Doing His Best to Ignore, Trump On an oven-hot day this month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions strode into a hotel ballroom to preach Trump-era immigration gospel to cowboy-hatted sheriffs from 31 counties near the United States’ border with Mexico. “It is only reasonable that a […]
