Maine’s top election official on Thursday disqualified Donald Trump from the state ballot in next year’s US presidential primary election, becoming the second state to bar the former… Read More »Maine becomes second US state to disqualify Trump from 2024 primary ballot
Western powers on Thursday condemned Iran accelerating its production of highly enriched uranium, after a watchdog said it had upped manufacture following months of slowdown.
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday ordered more than 5,600 military personnel to participate in a “defensive” exercise, in response to Britain sending a warship… Read More »Venezuela holds military exercise after UK sends warship to waters off Guyana
The move is the latest sign that the former French colony is pivoting towards Russia.
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, currently serving a 19-year prison sentence, has been transferred to a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle. The IK-3 penal colony, located in… Read More »Navalny’s penal colony in the Arctic is direct heir to Russia’s Gulag
Best-known for the musical Sarafina!, he showed the world the lives of black people under apartheid.
Mexican and U.S. officials agreed to keep border crossings open, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday, after several key rail crossings were… Read More »US, Mexico agree to keep border open as pressure mounts to limit crossings
Out of the 197 fact-checking articles our team wrote in 2023, 52 of them concerned the war in Ukraine. And 50 of those highlighted pro-Russian… Read More »War in Ukraine: In 2023, Russian disinformation continued to dominate
The year saw progress on women’s rights in some countries, such as Spain’s introduction of menstrual leave, France’s bid to enshrine abortion rights in the… Read More »Women’s rights and women wronged in 2023
A French star chef has abruptly quit his luxury hotel job after a hazing in which a kitchen hand was reportedly tied up naked and… Read More »Top French chef quits luxury hotel job after ‘troubling’ hazing incident
