Within weeks of President Biden imposing financial sanctions on Israelis accused of violent assaults in the occupied West Bank, crowdfunding campaigns on behalf of two of the men had collected the equivalent of more than $170,000. Far-right Israelis pledged the funds in a show of support for the settlers, whose efforts to exert Israeli control…
Lawmakers are set to investigate claims the former government snooped on the phones of its opponents. Source link
Avdiivka falls to Russia Ukrainian forces retreated from Avdiivka, which had been a stronghold in the Donetsk region for more than a decade, giving Russia its first significant victory in almost a year. Now, Ukraine’s outgunned troops may be in their most precarious position since the first months of the war almost two years ago….
Russia’s defence ministry says it has taken “full control” of the town, which had been besieged for months. Source link
On Wednesday, two days before Russian authorities reported his death, Aleksei A. Navalny was sentenced to another term in a special punishment cell in an Arctic prison, a notoriously harsh form of incarceration generally used to force inmates into subjugation. The sentencing marked the 27th time that prison authorities had sent Mr. Navalny into a…