Month: May 2019

The editor-in-chief of the Lithuanian branch of Russia’s Sputnik news agency was detained on arrival to the Vilnius airport and labeled “a threat to the “Editor-in-chief of Russia’s Sputnik Lithuania news agency detained at Vilnius airport & deported”

Trolls on the infamous 4chan forum are attempting to co-opt the innocent hashtag and turn it into a symbol of white nationalism called the “fashtag” “Is the # sign a symbol of Nazism and white supremacy? 4chan is trying to make people think so”

The ‘Russian oligarch’s niece’ at the center of the corruption scandal that brought down the Austrian government was actually a Bosnian student paid to set “Austrian paper outs ‘Russian oligarch’s niece’ at center of tape scandal as Bosnian student”

The United States walked out of a UN disarmament forum in protest after Venezuela took up the conference’s rotating chairmanship, insisting it would not participate “US boycotts arms control conference in protest at Venezuela”

US swimming legend Michael Phelps has opened up about mental health problems he experienced in the past, revealing that he sought the help of a “‘I questioned whether or not I wanted to be alive’: Michael Phelps opens up about depression battle”

While details of NATO’s new military strategy are still unknown, odds are the alliance is simply falling in line with recent updates to US doctrine “Obeying Washington? ‘New’ NATO strategy parrots hawkish US posture”

Malaysia has announced it will send 3,000 metric tonnes of non-recyclable plastic back to developed nations that illegally shipped it there, drawing a line in “‘We will not be world’s dumping ground’: Malaysia to return 3,000 tonnes of waste”

Senior Taliban officials including the group’s top political advisor met with Afghan political figures in Moscow on Tuesday, saying they were committed to peace in “Taliban insurgents want peace, senior leader says at Moscow talks”

Planned Parenthood has said that Missouri State officials may not renew their license, which could bar the clinic, the last in the state, from performing “Missouri may become the only state with zero abortion clinics”

Britain’s equality watchdog is launching a formal investigation to determine whether Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has “discriminated against, harassed or victimized people because they are “UK equality watchdog opens anti-Semitism probe into Labour party”