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Navalny daughter accepts human rights award on his behalf

10:56 pm June 8, 2021

Geneva: The daughter of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny accepted a human rights award on her father’s behalf on Tuesday for his courage in facing down President Vladimir Putin’s government. Daria Navalnaya, a 20-year-old student at Stanford University in California, said her father was dedicating the courage award given by the Geneva Summit for Human Rights to all political prisoners in Russia and Belarus. “You really […]

Duchess of Cambridge Kate ‘hugely grateful’ for 1st vaccine dose

10:36 pm May 29, 2021

LONDON: The Duchess of Cambridge has received her first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as Britain extends its inoculation program to younger people. Kate, the 39-year-old wife of Prince William, received her shot at London’s Science Museum, a mass vaccination center near the couple’s home at Kensington Palace, according to a photo posted on their […]

1 killed, 4 wounded in Amsterdam stabbings; suspect arrested

3:03 pm May 22, 2021

Amsterdam : One person was killed and four were injured in a stabbing late Friday night in Amsterdam and police said they arrested a suspect nearby. In a statement early Saturday, police said the team investigating the attacks is “keeping all options open, but at the moment has no direct indication of a terrorist motive.” The four […]

France wants tougher punishment for those who attack police

11:31 pm May 11, 2021

Paris: “Dead or Alive.” The chilling words were scrawled on photos of three police officers in their uniforms posted last month on a wall in a Grenoble suburb, in southwest France. To French police, this is just one more sign of an upsurge in violence specifically targeting police that is making it harder for them to keep France safe. […]

Paris court tries anti-racism activist for statue attack

10:53 pm May 10, 2021

Paris: French activist for Black rights went on trial in Paris on Monday for defacing a statue of a historical figure from France’s colonial, slave-trading past, calling the protest a political act to denounce deep-seated racism. Franco Lollia was on trial for spraying “state Negrophobia” in red paint on the pedestal of a statue outside parliament in Paris last June. The statue honors Jean-Baptiste Colbert, […]