Thousands of nationalists In Kiev have celebrated the New Year with torchlight parades in honor of Stepan Bandera, a WWII nationalist regarded by modern Ukrainians as a hero and by Poles, Jews and Russians as a war criminal. Blue-and-yellow Ukrainian national flags mingled with red-and-black banners of the Bandera's Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and...
US State Secretary Mike Pompeo has pushed back a planned trip to Ukraine, after protesters stormed the fortified American embassy in Baghdad. Pompeo was due to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday in Kiev, on the first leg of a five day jaunt to Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Cyprus. The meeting would...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will ask parliament to grant him immunity from corruption charges, a step that is expected to delay his trial for months. The step … Click to Continue »
Venice's mayor says police are investigating an anti-Semitic attack in which youths punched a left-wing Italian politician in the city's St. Mark's Square. Mayor Luigi Brugnaro tweeted Wednesday that fascist-like … Click to Continue »
There was no sense of festive goodwill from Jose Mourinho after he was yellow-carded in Tottenham's loss at Southampton for appearing to read the tactics being jotted down by a member of the opposition coaching staff. Tottenham suffered a 1-0 defeat on the south coast as the in-form Danny Ings scored a sublime first-half goal,...
From the moment two officials failed to throw a flag for obvious pass interference on a play that helped decide the NFC championship — stunning the players, coaches and millions … Click to Continue »
Isabel dos Santos, who is often described as Africa's richest woman, has denounced as “politically motivated" an Angolan court order to seize an estimated $1 billion worth of her assets. … Click to Continue »
