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At least 100,000 Belarusian anti-government protesters flooded the centre of Minsk on Sunday, a Reuters eyewitness said, while police detained around 250 people, the Russian Interfax news agency said, citing the Interior Ministry. Opposition figures called this new mass demonstration on the eve of crunch talks between President Alexander Lukashenko…

As it disentangles the Aspire contract, HMRC has been working directly with key IT suppliers, with this latest agreement providing managed desktop IT By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor Published: 10 Sep 2020 16:45 HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has extended a desk-side IT contract with Fujitsu for two years, under…

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” that power had gone to President Donald Trump’s head, causing him to want to be “president of this country for life.” Maddow asked, “Over time, do you feel like his sentience has declined, in what you described…

Updated / Tuesday, 8 Sep 2020 20:08 Jennifer Brady has yet to drop a set at the US Open Jennifer Brady cruised into her first grand slam semi-final at the US Open with a comfortable straight-sets win over Yulia Putintseva. The 28th-seeded American never surrendered her advantage after charging into…

Two-time grand slam champion Naomi Osaka has played powerful, clean tennis to defeat Shelby Rogers in straight sets and return to the US Open semi finals.Fourth-seeded Osaka's sharp serving and superior return game was on show as she accounted for unseeded American Rogers 6-3 6-4 in one hour and 20…

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. — Reuters/Files BERLIN: Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been removed from a medically induced coma and is responding to speech, Berlin’s Charite hospital said on Monday. The hospital, which has been treating Navalny since he was airlifted to Germany after falling ill on a Russian domestic flight…

BERLIN—Germany signaled it is prepared to reconsider its Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project with Russia in light of the poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who was roused from an induced coma on Monday. Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has been a champion of the pipeline project, couldn’t rule out…

President Trump denied there is any proof that Russia poisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny at a White House press conference on Friday, saying he would be "very angry if that is the case."Why it matters: Trump, in his first public comments since Nalvany fell ill during a flight from Siberia to…

Around six in the evening on December 28, 2018, Paul Whelan was in his room at the Metropol Hotel, a stately Art Nouveau building across from Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre. He was in town for the wedding of an American friend who was marrying a Russian woman. Whelan, who was forty-eight…

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Thursday avoided assigning direct blame to Russia for the poisoning of Putin's top opponent, Alexei Navalny. Russia has a long history of attacking dissidents.  Other world leaders have explicitly demanded an explanation from the Russian government, and Biden directly blamed the Kremlin for…