Whitehorse Daily Star

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July 10, 2023

July 7, 2023

July 5, 2023

  • Violence in France has crossed a perilous line Last Saturday, the fifth day of violent protests all over France against the police killing of an unarmed teenager, Nahel Merzouk, the daily arrests dropped below 1,000 for the first time – but the violence became even more extreme.

July 4, 2023

  • Russia: pondering the aftermath of folly “I said to Putin: ‘We could waste [Prigozhin], no problem. If not on the first try, then on the second.’ “I told him: ‘Don’t do this,’” said Aleksandr Lukashenko, long-ruling dictator of Belarus, clearly delighted at having upstaged his arrogant Russian counterpart.

June 30, 2023

June 28, 2023

  • Drama in Russia: what just happened? (Comment) Up until late afternoon Moscow time last Saturday, Russia was in a state of acute crisis, with Yevgeny Prigozhin pulling his “Wagner” army of mercenary soldiers out of Ukraine and sending some of them racing up the highway towards Moscow instead.
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