The Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny, fell ill on a flight last month and was treated in a Siberian hospital before being evacuated to Berlin.
Germany said, last week there was “unequivocal evidence” that President Vladimir Putin’s top foe had been poisoned using the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok.
Germany will discuss possible sanctions against Russia if the Kremlin does not provide an explanation soon, Foreign Minister Heiko said.
Indian Civil rights lawyer Prashant Bhushan was punished for criminal contempt for scandalizing the supreme court. The court punished him with a Rupee 1/-fine. He was also criticized by the court for not apologizing. The court blamed his adamance and ego for that. Mr.Bhushan says, the self-righteous ego is a must for any self-respecting,truth-loving person and he said, in my view, the judges should be able to respond to criticism leveled against them. There have been cases where judges have a serious conflict of interest and they still deal with those cases.
Nobel prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich accused the authorities in Belarus of terrorizing their own people.
Opposition politician Maxim-Znak was the latest figure to be seized in a systematic campaign by the Alexander Lukashenko to round up leaders of the protest movement. Days after another opposition leader Maria-Kolesnikova was snatched in the street by masked men. Both are leaders of protest demanding Lukashenko.
Donald Trump's former personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen, in a tell-all memoir, makes the case that the president is guilty of the same crimes that landed him in federal prison, offering a blow-by-blow account of Mr. trumps alleged role in a hush-money scandal that once overshadowed his presidency.
Of all the crises Mr. cohen confronted working for Mr trump, none proved as vexing as the porn actress stormy daniels and her claims of an extramarital affair with Mr. Trump. Mr.cohen assails mr.trump as an organized crime don and master manipulator
