Iranian authorities may be planning to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa, US government sources told Politico. According to undisclosed officials, the United States learned of the threat back in the spring, but in recent weeks, more specific information has surfaced about a conspiracy to remove Ambassador Lana Marks. According to the report, so far intelligence has not been able to figure out what interest Marx is to Iran:…

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Maria Kolesnikova, one of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition, was detained at the Ukrainian border on September 8: just a day after it became known about her disappearance in the center of Minsk. The Belarusian authorities claim that Kolesnikova allegedly tried to flee the country, her lawyer and supporters are sure that they tried to forcibly deport the politician. What exactly happened? The State Border Committee of Belarus insists…

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny emerged from an artificial coma, in which he had been since his poisoning on August 20. According to doctors from the Berlin Charite Hospital, his condition has improved. According to doctors, now Navalny is gradually disconnected from the ventilator. In addition, he began to respond to external stimuli. Hospital officials also stressed in an official statement that it is «too early to assess the potential…

Donald Trump has made disparaging remarks about US military personnel who have been captured or killed on at least a few occasions, according to a new report — including, among other things, calling dead soldiers buried in the American Aisne Marne cemetery in France as «losers» in 2018 … This was announced on Thursday, September 3, by The Atlantic. A senior Defense Department official, on condition of anonymity, confirmed to…

The German authorities said in a press release that, according to «irrefutable evidence,» opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent from the Novichok group. A similar substance was used during the poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal in 2018. Traces of the poison were revealed by tests carried out by the Bundeswehr laboratory — after Russian doctors said they had found nothing that would indicate…

Donald Trump discussed the execution of General Jang Sung Taek with Kim Jong Un, the current US President boasted to famous journalist Bob Woodward during his interview, claiming that the North Korean dictator «tells him everything.» In the new book, The Fury, by the legendary Washington Post reporter who investigated the Watergate scandal, Woodward says that, according to the president, Kim clearly explained to Trump how he killed his uncle….

On Thursday, the Trump administration blacklisted four individuals linked to Russia's attempt to influence U.S. elections. Among them was a Ukrainian deputy, whom the US authorities called a Russian agent. According to the administration, Andrei Derkach helped Rudy Giuliani in his search for dirt on Joe Biden. Andriy Derkach, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, «has been an active Russian agent for over ten years, maintaining close ties with the…

Microsoft reports that the Russian hackers and espionage organizations behind the interference in the 2016 presidential election have stepped up again — targeting political parties, their advisers, and American human rights activists. According to a Microsoft blog, since September 2019, Russian hackers from Strontium — better known as Fancy Bear or APT28 — have focused their efforts on more than 200 different organizations. The blog authors add that it has…

Donald Tusk, chairman of the European People's Party (EPP Group) and ex-chairman of the EU Council, proposed nominating Belarusian oppositionists Svetlana and Sergei Tikhanovskikh for the Nobel Prize. “I am grateful to you all for the absolute support of our friends from Belarus. — he said, addressing the EPP members in the European Parliament — We do not know when and how their struggle for freedom will end, but we…