MINSK (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday accused Russia of lying about an alleged mercenary plot to destabilize his country and said anonymous forces would lead a revolution in Belarus but failed.
Moscow said Minsk had wrongly arrested an organization of suspected Russian mercenaries last week, before the elections in Belarus on 9 August, noted as Lukashenko’s challenge in years.
Russia said the detained men were transiting via Belarus in the direction of a third country and did not aim to influence Belarusian domestic policy.
Lukashenko called the claims a “lie” and asked Moscow to avoid lying, the detained men had confessed everything and were ordered to enter Belarus and await further orders.
(Report through Andrei Makhovsky; Written through Alexander Marrow; Edited through Andrew Osborn)
NORTH BRUNSWICK, New Jersey – Federal Judge Esther Salas spoke publicly for the first time about a shooting at her home last month in which the government says a disgruntled lawyer killed her son and seriously wounded her husband. In a video released Monday, Salas asked for more privacy for federal rulings following the July 19 attack on his home. He noted that making a judgment amounts to “making misleading calls” that infrequently make other people angry and upset.
Donald Trump has threatened to sue the state of Nevada for what he calls an “late-night illegal coup d’éte” in which the state government sends ballots for the 2020 U.S. election to all its residents. The president tweeted that the move would prevent Republicans from gaining election victories. “In an illegal late-night coup, the governor of Nevada’s clubhouse made it highly unlikely that Republicans would win the state,” Trump wrote.
Tim Boyle/Getty Images Illinois network leaders have called for the cessation of history categories in public schools until an “appropriate alternative” is established to form minority teams in the program. The constitutional democratic state LaShawn K. Ford said that “the existing teachings of history lead to a racist society and forget the contributions of women and minorities,” according to NBC Chicago. The state legislature called on schools to abandon history books “that unfairly our history.”
The number of other people who died from COVID-19 in Iran is much higher than the government has admitted publicly, according to leaked figures to BBC Persian. Iran, the most affected country in the Middle East, has been accused of covering its instances of coronavirus since the onset of the pandemic. The number of other people who died from COVID-19 in Iran is almost 3 times the official figure, according to a BBC poll.
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Sturgis is on. The message was posted on social media when South Dakota, which has noticed an increase in coronavirus infections in recent weeks, is preparing to welcome thousands of cyclists for the 80th edition of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. More than 250,000 more people are expected to rumble in western South Dakota, seeking the freedom to roam unrestricted landscapes in a state that has moved away from lockdowns.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday she doesn’t trust Dr. Deborah Birx, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator. This week’s ABC presenter Martha Raddatz asked Pelosi if she accepted Birx as true, and mentioned POLICY’s reports that, in a previous closed-door assembly this week, Pelosi accused her of “spreading incorrect information about the pandemic.” “Is that true and you accept it as true with it?” Raddatz asked.
As of June 12, nearly 700 companies had violated the provisions of the Paid Leave Act and owed back to many employees, according to Department of Labor records. The criminals come with six McDonald’s franchisees and franchise owners from Comfort Suites, Courtyard through Marriott and Red Roof Inn. In total, corporations owe $690,000 in unpaid wages to 527 employees, which are known in the documents.
The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee opened an investigation into the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence office on Monday, adding its movements in Portland, Oregon, and its participation in other anti-racism protests across the country. “Reports of surveillance of nonviolent protesters, the creation and dissemination of intelligence reports on hounds and protesters, and the exploitation of electronic devices are deeply troubling,” the committee’s chairman, Adam Schiff, a Democrat, wrote in a letter to senior DHS officials.
Mexican security forces have arrested the leader of a criminal gang specializing in pipeline fuel theft in the central state of Guanajuato. José Antonio Yépez, better known as El Marro – or El Mazo – one of the most wanted men in the country. Mexican police had been chasing him in recent months and had arrested his mother and sister.
Karen Bass, California Democrat. he discussed as a candidate for vice president of former Vice President Joe Biden, who promised to decide on a woman as vice president.
Justin Stuller looks forward to relaxing in the Florida Keys: fishing, lobster and nothing with his wife, children, an extended circle of family and friends. Stuller, 38, now has two dozen stitches and a small limp after becoming entangled with a lemon shark of two and a half meters on Wednesday. Stuller said he had known sharks on similar trips.
NapCity began to create small personal pills that travelers can hire to rest at airports. NapCity manufactures small pills that are basically used at airports, where travelers can take a quick nap during a stopover. The COVID-19 pandemic absolutely replaced the travel industry and the company was dedicated to promoting what President Stephen Rosenfeld calls “personal area as a service.”
The mysterious China Seed packages that many Americans won by mail are known, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Federal officials have warned those who have won the seeds not to plant them for fear that some will simply be invasive species and may destroy local plants and insects. Osama El-Lissy, a member of the USDA’s animal and plant fitness inspection department, said officials knew more than a dozen plant species included in the seed packs.
The Philippine president agreed to block the capital and outlying provinces after medical teams warned that the country is waging a “lost battle” against the coronavirus amid an alarming accumulation of infections. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said Monday that the city of Manila, the capital region of more than 12 million people, and five densely populated provinces would reapply stricter quarantine restrictions for two weeks from Tuesday. President Rodrigo Duterte eased the blockade of the country on 1 June in an effort to revive the stagnant economy.
Whip of most James Clyburn Chamber, D-S. C., on Sunday, defended his recent comments saying that President Trump “believes that the other Americans will be deceived through him, as the other Germans were deceived through Adolf Hitler.” Clyburn, the House No. 3 Democrat and one of the main supporters of alleged Democratic nominee Joe Biden, noted that he had been comparing Trump to the strong men of history for years and warned that the president had no plans to resign.
Jason Miller/AP Photo Connie Culp, the first patient in the United States to obtain a partial face transplant, died on July 29 of an unrelated infection, according to the Associated Press. The innovative operation was carried out in 2008 at the Cleveland Clinic; Culp had already undergone more than 30 surgeries after her husband shot him in the face in 2004 in an assassination attempt. A medical team took 22 hours to update 80% of Culp’s face, after which he was able to talk, smile and enjoy the food again.
A Department of Homeland Security intelligence report leaked to The Nation has some skeptical experts on the motives of the branch. The report targeted several left-wing American activists on whom the branch would normally be barred from gathering intelligence unless there was an explanation of why those Americans were operating on behalf of a foreign power. The people named in the report, many of whom have been known for far-left causes, have foreign connections: they have traveled to Syria in the afterlife and have fought the Islamic State alongside Kurdish factions such as the YPG, PKK and Peshmerga.
A UN-backed court will deliver its verdict Friday on the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005, but the questions will remain a lengthy and costly trial in which suspects remain fugitive. Four suspected members of the Shia Muslim fundamentalist organization Hezbollah are being attacked in absentia in the Dutch court for the large suicide bombing in Beirut that killed sunni billionaire Hariri and 21 others. The ruling concerns an occasion that replaced the face of the Middle East, as Hariri’s assassination triggered a wave of protests that drove Syrian forces out of Lebanon after 30 years.
Africa’s largest supermarket chain, South African company Shoprite, says it’s taking off from Nigeria. He said he was promoting “majority ownership” of his operations in Africa’s most populous country. Shoprite is the newest South African store to leave Nigeria: clothing corporation Mr Price announced its launch in June and Woolworths in 2014.