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Czechs expel 18 Russian envoys, accuse Moscow over ammunition depot blast
PRAGUE (Reuters) -The Czech Republic is expelling 18 Russian diplomats over suspicions that Russian intelligence services were involved in an ammunition depot explosion in 2014, its government said on Saturday. The central European country is a NATO and EU member state, and the expulsions and allegations have triggered its biggest row with Russia since the end of the communist era in 1989. Its actions could prompt Russia to consider closing the Czech Republic's embassy in Moscow, a diplomatic source cited by Russian news agency Interfax suggested.
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Breonna Taylor: Publisher refuses to distribute police officer's book
Publisher Simon & Schuster says it won't distribute the work following a backlash online.
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Sanctioned Russian IT company partners with Microsoft, IBM
The Treasury Department on Thursday slapped six Russian technology companies with sanctions for supporting Kremlin intelligence agencies engaged in “dangerous and disruptive cyber attacks.” Its clients also include the FSB, a successor to the KGB that “cultivates and co-opts criminal hackers” who carry out ransomware and phishing attacks, the Treasury Department said. The U.S. said big conventions hosted by Positive Technologies are “used as recruiting events” by the FSB and the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency.
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Police identify Indianapolis shooter as former FedEx employee 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole
The FBI have reportedly seized evidence from an Indianapolis home
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Two more men found dead in Louisiana ship capsizing as death toll rises to four
Officials are still looking for nine missing crew members
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From Asian hate crime to a minimum wage: 25 things Ted Cruz has voted against this year
All the votes the Texas senator opposed in 2021 – including not one confirmation of a woman to the position of Cabinet secretary
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Tesla settles lawsuit with former employee accused of stealing Autopilot trade secrets
Former Tesla engineer Guangzhi Cao will pay the EV maker an undisclosed sum after the automaker sued Cao for copying its Autopilot source code.
- The Week
Cuba's new leaders won't have 'historical legacy' as a shield in post-Castro world, scholar says
For the first time in 60 years, Cuba will soon be without a Castro in a formal, day-to-day leadership position. Raúl Castro, the younger brother of the late Fidel Castro, confirmed Friday that he's stepping down from his role as the leader of the country's Communist Party, with President Miguel Diaz-Canel expected to take on double duties, as the Castro brothers did before him. The younger Castro, who is 90, is poised to remain an influential figure on the island, but he likely won't interfere with daily governance, The New York Times notes. That means a new era is on the horizon, as Cuba faces challenges from both the coronavirus and a struggling economy. The next generation of leadership could allow for more free-market activity, a path that's not completely new for Cuba; Raúl, who is considered more pragmatic than his brother, began the process of implementing some reforms following Fidel's death in 2011, but it's been a slow grind. There's no guarantee a new regime will change that — Richard Feinberg, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, told Al Jazeera that he thinks it's the "worst possible moment" for reforms because the government has "no money." That said, urgency may rule the day in a post-Castro world. Arturo Lopez-Levy, the author of Raul Castro and the New Cuba: A Close-Up View of Change and an assistant professor at Holy Names University, told Al Jazeera that, unlike the brothers, their successors will have to "rely on performance — not on historical legacy — to exercise power and as a source of legitimacy." Read more at The New York Times and Al Jazeera. More stories from theweek.comThe question that will decide the Chauvin case5 colossally funny cartoons about Biden's infrastructure plan6 gorgeous homes on lakes
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Marjorie Taylor Greene launches ‘America First’ platform to promote ‘Anglo-Saxon traditions’
‘America is a nation with a border, and a culture, strengthened by a common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions,’ an America First pamphlet says
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Catawba Indians declared victor in NC casino court fight, clearing way for construction
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NASA has chosen SpaceX's Starship to land its next astronauts on the moon
Elon Musk has said that SpaceX's mega-spaceship could fly astronauts to the moon within a few years. But first the Starships have to stop blowing up.
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Simon & Schuster won’t distribute book by police officer involved in Breonna Taylor fatal shooting
Post Hill Press, a small conservative publishing house, is set to release a book by Sgt Jonathan Mattingly about the fatal incident
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Nearly two-thirds of Trump voters disapprove of Meghan Markle, poll shows
Respondents’ preference in 2020 election is good indicator of opinion of royals embroiled in controversy
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Davidson’s football team goes from afterthought, to league champion, to FCS playoffs
Davidson’s non-scholarship football team has made the FCS playoffs for the first time in school history.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX will build spacecraft to land Nasa astronauts on moon, report says
Artemis will land the first woman and person of colour on the moon
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Biden backtracks on keeping Trump cap on refugees
A refugee organisation says the White House's explanation of the order is "completely false".
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