A judge this week is determining the sentence for Brenton Tarrant, who pleaded guilty in March to dozens of counts of murder and attempted murder and one count of committing a terrorist act in connection with the March 15, 2019, massacres at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Center in Christchurch.
Once again, a prominent critic of Moscow has mysteriously fallen ill. And once again, poison appears to be the culprit.
Even before his plane touched down in Israel on Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was being criticized there and in the United States for breaking a longstanding taboo.
India’s coronavirus caseload topped 3 million on Sunday, with the country leading the world in new infections as the disease marched through impoverished rural areas in the north and the wealthier but older populations of the south.
Alexei Navalny’s wife and a top aide visited him Sunday in a Berlin hospital where the comatose Russian dissident is being treated by German doctors after a suspected poisoning.
Although no arrests or clashes were reported on Sunday, President Alexander Lukashenko told a rally of supporters this weekend that protesters had until Monday to calm down.
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