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“I’m profoundly disturbed about the apparent direction of the court,” J. Michael Luttig told me. “I now believe that it is unlikely Trump will ever be tried for the crimes he committed in attempting to overturn the 2020 election.” I called Luttig, a former federal judge with extensive conservative credentials, to solicit his reaction to […]

Electricity supplies have been restored to Sierra Leone following weeks of power cuts, after it paid off part of the $48m (£38m) bill it owed to a Turkish company. The $18m payment came as the country’s energy minister resigned, saying he took full responsibility for the crisis. Most electricity supplies to the capital, Freetown, come […]

A mistake by Ukrainian troops appears to have let Russian forces advance and capture large parts of a village. The incident occurred during a rotation between Ukraine’s 47th and 115th Mechanized Brigades. It marks the second time a Ukrainian unit has failed on the eastern front in recent weeks. A blunder by Ukrainian troops appears […]

A mistake by Ukrainian troops appears to have let Russian forces advance and capture large parts of a village. The incident occurred during a rotation between Ukraine’s 47th and 115th Mechanized Brigades. It marks the second time a Ukrainian unit has failed on the eastern front in recent weeks. A blunder by Ukrainian troops appears […]

Domestic rivalries and external players pollute the Sudanese information space. A year into the civil war in Sudan, the humanitarian costs have been staggering – but the news coverage has been minimal. A conflict on this scale should top the news agenda but it has been relegated to the back pages – in part – […]

Four years ago, when COVID-19 first began to spread globally, it didn’t just damage our physical health, but also the health of our information ecosystem. Ever since, the internet has been rife with health misinformation on ways to treat or protect oneself against the coronavirus. First, internet healers falsely suggested that gargling salt water and […]

Hundreds of students and academics have been arrested during rallies opposing Israel’s war on Gaza.  Students in US universities are speaking out against Israel’s devastating war on Gaza. The protests began in New York’s Columbia University last week. But the police crackdown that followed caused the anger to spread to other universities in the United […]

With elections fast approaching in South Africa, the BBC’s Nomsa Maseko reflects on 30 momentous years of democracy and how the country has changed since the end of the racist system of apartheid. [BBC] My mother told me when she cast her ballot on 27 April 1994 that the vote felt like a “get-out-of-jail card” […]

Ukraine is slated to receive its much-anticipated fleet of F-16 fighter jets this summer. The American-made aircraft have flown combat missions around the world over the past few decades. But former US military pilots say Ukraine will be the jet’s foremost combat test. The long-awaited delivery of F-16s to Ukraine is on the horizon, and these […]

LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably didn’t order opposition politician Alexei Navalny killed at an Arctic prison camp in February, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Navalny, 47 when he died, was Putin’s fiercest domestic critic. His allies, branded extremists by the authorities, accused Putin of having […]