A two-year stop-start process exploring options to secure the release of Navalny began to accelerate when Abramovich visited Moscow in recent months, two of the sources said. Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had also embraced early efforts to win Navalny’s freedom, according to several sources. Abramovich, who is sanctioned in the West and spends much of his time ...
The Irish government conceded on Saturday that it had lost two referenda to change what it called “sexist” language in the constitution in an embarrassing defeat. Ireland went to the polls on Friday in votes deliberately timed to coincide with International Women’s Day to replace two constitutional references. One said that the the family unit was “founded” on marriage, the ...
It was just over a year ago that Toyota appeared to acknowledge it had dropped the ball on electric vehicles. Its CEO, Akio Toyoda, stepped down from his post, painting himself as “an old-fashioned” man unfit to take the world’s biggest carmaker through the electric revolution. But since then, the Japanese company has done little to embrace a fully electric ...
Russia has begun using a powerful aerial bomb that has decimated Ukrainian defenses and tilted the balance on the front lines. It has done so by converting a basic Soviet-era weapon into a gliding bomb that can cause a crater fifteen meters wide. The bomb is the FAB-1500, essentially a 1.5-tonne weapon of which nearly half comprises high explosives. It ...
Indonesia’s transport ministry will launch an investigation after two Batik Air pilots fell asleep during a recent flight, according to state news agency Antara, citing the ministry’s civil aviation director-general M Kristi Endah Murni. According to a preliminary report released Saturday by the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT), both the pilot and co-pilot fell asleep simultaneously for 28 minutes during ...
The first official photograph of Catherine, Princess of Wales, since she underwent abdominal surgery in January has been released by her and her husband, William, Prince of Wales. Kate is seen seated outside, surrounded by her three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, in the photo credited to the Prince of Wales. “Thank you for your kind wishes ...
Joe Biden has said he would sign legislation banning popular video-sharing app TikTok in the United States. Legislation passed through the US House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously on Thursday calling on China’s ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok or effectively face a US ban. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, who supports the bill, has indicated it will soon ...
On Saturday, President Biden’s reelection campaign released the first ad as part of its $30 million post-State of the Union advertising campaign, in which the president directly confronts concerns about his age. The ad — part of the campaign’s pivot to the general election — features Biden speaking directly into the camera as he contrasts his record with his likely ...
When a Los Angeles internet entrepreneur decided that his company should lend money to Alexander Smirnov, an Israeli-American businessman fluent in four languages, he did so in part because Smirnov boasted of a highly respectable background. “He was representing himself as working for the FBI,” Dmitry Fomichev recalled in an interview about the 2012 loan, which Fomichev would later say ...
Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) knows how to lie in wait. When the State of the Union address finishes, Republicans rush for the exits, anxious to blast President Biden’s speech to conservative media, while Democrats pour into the well of the House to high-five their leader and pose for selfies. Every year, LaMalfa will patiently wait toward the back of the ...