The Russian soldiers were young, younger than her sons, with barely any hair on their chins, but their commander’s words were chilling.
“My men have had some vodka,” he said. “Now they want some entertainment.”
Vika started trembling. She suddenly understood why, earlier that day, when the soldiers came to the house to confiscate their phones, they had asked her to tie white fabric on her front fence.
Pro-choice activists protested Saturday evening outside the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts, days after an unprecedented leak of a draft opinion revealed the country’s highest court plans to overturn Roe v. Wade.
In the shadow of Russia’s appalling war against its peaceful neighbour, misguided efforts to revive the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal have continued. The dangerous naiveté among Western leaders that left Ukraine outside NATO also underlies efforts to make deals with Tehran. We should hope that negotiators do not return to Vienna and that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) process with Iran is abandoned for good.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia used his congratulatory messages to mark the 77th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany to single out the leaders of the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics — two puppet states carved out of Ukrainian territory by the Kremlin — for their role in what he described as a continued fight against Nazism.
Mr. Putin said that the forces seeking to control the two eastern regions were pursuing the same goal as their ancestors: “the liberation of their native land from Nazi filth.”
Dozens are feared dead after a Russian airstrike hits a school building, officials say.
Dozens of people are feared dead after a Russian airstrike leveled a school in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, local officials said, as Russian forces kept up their unrelenting bombardment of towns and cities across the region.
The Ukrainian government said the basement of the school in the village of Bilohorivka, in the Luhansk region, was sheltering civilians, a claim that could not be independently verified. The village is only a few miles from the front line and has come under repeated assault.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a surprise visit to Ukraine on Sunday, becoming the latest world leader to touch down in the country in support of its fight against Russia’s invasion.
“The Prime Minister is in Ukraine to meet with President Zelensky and reaffirm Canada’s unwavering support for the Ukrainian people,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.
Several Freedom Convoy protesters say thousands of dollars of items seized during February’s enforcement efforts are unaccounted for, and that getting back those items that are in police possession has been a laborious process.
The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) says they received 41 items from the city during the clean-up of the protests, which disrupted life in Ottawa’s downtown for roughly three weeks earlier this year.
Items in the force’s possession include generators, barbecues and space heaters that helped fuel and feed protesters in the city’s core.
Harvard University released a report last week about the institution’s legacy of slavery and racism and pledged to spend $100 million to fund programs addressing its past wrongs.
The findings come some three years after Harvard President Larry Bacow began the initiative in 2019. On April 26, Bacow announced the findings and provided his recommendations for the university.
“The truth is that slavery played a significant part in our institutional history. The truth is that the legacy of slavery continues to influence the world in the form of disparities in education, health, wealth, income, social mobility, and almost any other metric we might use to measure equality,” said Bacow in a video announcement.
We’ve got an answer: Their silence is an attempt to get America to look the other way while they illegally involve themselves in state elections, which is far, far beyond the constitutional purview of the executive branch.
“Some people are just born that way” is a well-known description of a troubled person’s behaviour. After witnessing six-years of Justin Trudeau as prime minister, it is difficult to find a more appropriate summation.
It’s not too much to ask that Congress debate and vote on whether to authorize a U.S. march to war that’s now well underway.
John Paul Mac Isaac, owner of The Mac Shop, said the president’s son appeared reeking of alcohol at his now-shuttered Wilmington store just before closing on a Friday in April 2019.
Biden wanted Isaac to recover data off of three MacBook laptops that had suffered liquid damage, the computer store owner recalled in his upcoming book American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth. He previewed the book in an op-ed published by The New York Post on Friday.
Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca said the best way to get back to normal is to make classrooms safer.
“There are nine existing vaccines … in that roster of universal required vaccines,” Del Duca said during a campaign stop in Ottawa. “We will add the COVID-19 vaccine to that list. And we’re going to do that because the science is settled on this.”
COVID-19 vaccination was “significantly associated” with a 25% jump in emergency medical services (EMS) for heart problems in 16-39 year-olds in Israel, whose vaccination rate is among the world’s highest, according to a peer-reviewed study by MIT researchers.
Published last week in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, the study found no association with COVID infections, however.
