India's colossal election season begins as Modi seeks third term As the Prime Minister's car approaches, the chants of Modi! are deafening. His cavalcade moves at walking pace and as it nears, the people surge forwards with their phones out, snapping the moment for ... 04/17/2024 - 4:41 pm | View Link
Nasty Brussels police have just proven Brexit right It was no surprise to me that I wouldn’t be welcomed back to Brussels. I first got wind that trouble was brewing on Saturday afternoon, when I received word from the organisers of the National ... 04/16/2024 - 6:35 am | View Link
Former British Prime Minister reveals conspiracy blocked Donald Trump US Brexit trade deal EXCLUSIVE: Liz Truss has revealed how she had to call Boris Johnson in hospital to get round officials blocking a post-Brexit trade deal with the US and UK. 04/15/2024 - 7:07 am | View Link
Progressive activists take victory lap after tens of thousands of Democrats cast protest votes against Biden President Biden's campaign received a significant amount of "protest votes" in Tuesday night ... the "uninstructed" option rather than vote for President Biden, which amounted to almost 48,000 ... 04/3/2024 - 7:49 am | View Link
Biden Burned by Tens of Thousands of New Gaza Protest Votes in Wisconsin But the protest vote’s 8.4 percent was nevertheless celebrated by the protest vote’s organizers, who had encouraged Americans to let “President Biden know that Wisconsin stands against ... 04/3/2024 - 12:41 am | View Link
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami alert Wednesday after eruptions at Ruang mountain sent ash thousands of feet high. Officials ordered more than 11,000 people to leave the area.
The volcano on the northern side of Sulawesi island had at least five large eruptions in the past 24 hours, Indonesia’s Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation said.
Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa ordered businesses and government offices to shut down Thursday and Friday amid a crippling lack of electrical power ahead of a key national referendum scheduled for Sunday.
Noboa blamed the unprecedented measure on drought, but also sabotage, without offering evidence. The energy crisis comes on the heels of a security crisis and a fiscal crisis that’s sent it seeking help from the International Monetary Fund.
(BANGKOK) — Myanmar’s jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest as a health measure due to a heat wave, the military government said as it freed more than 3,000 prisoners under an amnesty to mark this week’s traditional New Year holiday.
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Those released included several political prisoners, including a member of the Kachin minority who is one of the country’s most prominent Christian church leaders.
Suu Kyi, 78, and Win Myint, the 72-year-old former president of her ousted government, were among the elderly and infirm prisoners moved to house arrest because of the severe heat, military spokesperson Maj.
Where do you find influence in 2024? You can start with the offices of the Anti-Corruption Foundation in Vilnius, Lithuania, where TIME met with Yulia Navalnaya earlier this spring. There, the activist is working with 60 supporters—whose anti-Kremlin activities include tracking down the villas, yachts, and bank accounts of the Russian political elites—inside three fully operational production studios and a high-tech control room.
In Russian custom, the soul of the dead is believed to remain on earth for forty days, finishing its business among the living before it moves on to the afterlife. Surviving friends and relatives often spend this period in mourning and reflection. But the loved ones of Alexei Navalny, Russia’s leading dissident, did not have much freedom to abide by this custom after he died in an Arctic prison camp on February 16.
For them, and especially for his wife, Yulia Navalnaya, the days and weeks that followed his death rushed by in a blur of studio lights, airport terminals, hotel rooms and video calls.
Outside the closed world of the Kremlin and the Russian prison system, few could have anticipated the death of Alexei Navalny, Russia’s leading dissident, in an Arctic penal colony on February 16. It came as a devastating shock to the revolutionary movement he led and, more acutely, to his close friends and family.