Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been arrested in Moscow as protest demonstrations called by him took place across the country. He has called on supporters to continue the demonstrations despite his arrest Sunday. He says on Twitter “they have detained me. This doesn’t mean anything … you didn’t come […]
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Russian police reportedly force their way into opposition leader Navalny’s office
Russian police forced their way into the Moscow office of opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Sunday and started questioning people, images broadcast online by Navalny’s supporters showed. Roman Rubanov, a Navalny supporter, wrote on social media that the police said they were looking into reports that there was a bomb […]
Russian police seek forced entry to opposition leader Navalny’s office: opposition spokeswoman
Russian Interior Ministry officers gather outside a building, which houses the office of the Anti-corruption Foundation led by opposition leader Alexei Navalny, before a rally for a boycott of a March 18 presidential election in Moscow, Russia January 28, 2018. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov January 28, 2018 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian police […]
Rubio returns to Fla. to fire chief of staff over ‘allegations of improper conduct’
Sen. Marco Rubio on Saturday night traveled to his home state of Florida from Washington to fire his chief of staff over “allegations of improper conduct,” the Republican lawmaker said. “Yesterday afternoon, I was made aware, for the first time, of allegations of improper conduct by my Chief of Staff […]
India likely to put pedal to metal on asset sales
FILE PHOTO: India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley attends a news conference sharing details about the recapitalisation of public sector banks in New Delhi, India, January 24, 2018. REUTERS/Saumya Khandelwal January 28, 2018 By Devidutta Tripathy and Manoj Kumar MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s government may look to raise as much […]
Deadlocked peace talks in focus as Cyprus votes for new president
A man walks in front of a pre-election poster of Presidential candidate Nikolas Papadopoulos leader of the center-right DIKO party in Nicosia, Cyprus January 26, 2018. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou January 28, 2018 By Michele Kambas ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Cypriots were voting on Sunday for a new president tasked with breaking […]
Hacked Tokyo cryptocurrency exchange to repay owners $425 million
FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a building where Mt. Gox, a digital marketplace operator, is housed in Tokyo February 25, 2014. REUTERS/Toru Hanai January 28, 2018 TOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc said on Sunday it would return about 46.3 billion yen ($425 million) of the virtual […]
Jeremy Piven denies new sexual misconduct allegations
LOS ANGELES — Jeremy Piven, who has strongly denied allegations of sexual misconduct from at least three women, is facing further accusations that date back decades, an online news site reported Saturday. Three additional women claim Piven acted in a physically aggressive or threatening manner, BuzzFeed News reported in a […]
Hacked Japanese cryptocurrency exchange to repay owners $425 million
Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck said on Sunday it would return about 46.3 billion yen ($425 million) of the virtual money it lost to hackers two days ago in one of the biggest-ever thefts of digital money. That amounts to nearly 90 percent of the 58 billion yen worth of NEM […]
Amid turmoil, Trump seeking a reset with State of the Union
Beset by poor poll numbers and the grind of the Russia investigation, President Donald Trump will look to reset his term with his first State of the Union address, arguing that his tax cut and economic policies will benefit all Americans. The theme of his Tuesday night address to Congress […]