Month: February 2020

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said that President Nicolas Maduro had been “cowardly” by detaining his uncle after the pair arrived at the main airport in Caracas on Tuesday. Venezuelan National Assembly President and opposition leader Juan Guaido, who many nations have recognised as the country’s rightful interim ruler, arrives for a
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FILE PHOTO: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during a joint news conference after a Normandy-format summit in Paris, France December 10, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/Pool WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three U.S. senators will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kiev on Friday, seeking to reinforce the importance of his country as a strategic U.S. ally after
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in Congress on Wednesday brushed aside calls to investigate possible political interference at the U.S. Justice Department after the agency asked for a lighter prison term for President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone. The Justice Department’s decision to back off its sentencing recommendation of seven to nine years for the
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I don’t often write posts covering one book. Book Riot isn’t a review site: we’re interested in your reading life and adjacent subjects, not on putting value judgments on whatever it is sparks joy when it enters your eyeballs (provided whatever that is doesn’t hurt anyone else). Every so often, however, a very special book—an
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Signage at the Unist’ot’en camp near Houston, B.C., on Wednesday, January 9, 2019 (Photo: Canadian Press) If you’ve been online or watched the news over the past few days, it’s impossible that you haven’t heard about the conflict on Wet’suwet’en territory. On February 6, in the early hours of the morning, RCMP officials outside of Houston,
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Backstreet’s back, alright. But this time, they’re looking particularly dapper.  The good chaps from Backstreet Boys were guests Tuesday night (Feb. 11) on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where they donned their most splendid threads for a singalong.  Dressed to the nines as a barbershop quintet, the Boys, err, Ragtime Gals sang Sisqo’s “Thong
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