Month: May 2019

In a report that views Russia through the same cracked lens as Washington’s old ideological foe, the Soviet Union, the RAND Corporation reveals that its “US think tank goes big-game hunting for Russia. Guess who gets shot in the foot?”

The wife of Russian NHL star Alexander Ovechkin has told fans “to accept defeat with honor” in an apparent riposte to criticism of the team “‘Accept defeat with honor’: Ovechkin wife hits out after Russia world championship defeat”

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders took a swipe at neoconservative Bill Kristol for his “foolish advocacy of the Iraq war,” and questioned whether he had “Sanders burns Bill Kristol over ‘foolish’ pushing for Iraq war, asks where his apology is”

The EU Parliament’s three-day elections have concluded across Europe. The polls attracted a record number of voters, not seen in over two decades, while exit “EU elections over: Exit polls show surge for right-wing & green parties amid high turnout”

Click:裝潢 Iran has proposed signing a non-aggression pact to its neighbors, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said. At the same time, the country is ready “Iran proposes ‘non-aggression pact’ to Gulf neighbors as regional tensions soar”

US civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. allegedly “looked on and laughed” as a Baptist minister friend raped a woman, according to FBI records “‘Time for some statue removals?’ Twitter reacts to MLK sex life claims, rape comments”

US President Donald Trump brushed off the North Korea hawks on his team, saying he was not at all “disturbed” by the news of renewed “Pyongyang testing ‘small weapons’ disturbed ‘my people’ but not me – Trump”

Greece’s left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, whose Syriza party has suffered a major blow at the European polls, has said he would ask the country’s “Left-wing Greek PM Tsipras calls for snap elections after party takes beating at EU & home polls”

Thailand’s king opened parliament on Friday five years after a 2014 coup as the junta moves within striking distance of cementing its grip on power, “Thailand’s king opens 1st parliament since 2014 coup”

Teenage Russian tennis ace Anastasia Potapova secured a stunning first-round French Open win over fifth seed Angelique Kerber of Germany in straight sets. Potapova, 18, “Russian teen Potapova stuns Wimbledon champ Kerber in first round of French Open”