Opposition

"You need faces—strong leaders and politicians who offer themselves as alternatives," said Sergey Lagodinsky, a member of the European Parliament.

Greene joined House progressives in voting against the measure, which would liquidate the frozen assets of Russian oligarchs and use the funds to help Ukraine.

Graham has voted to support every other Supreme Court nominee—both Democrats and Republicans—since he was elected to Senate in 2003.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will meet on April 4 to consider Jackson's nomination.

The jailed Russian opposition leader uses his latest sentencing as a platform to stir opposition against Vladimir Putin.

Siarhei Tsikhanouski, the husband of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, previously ran against current President Alexander Lukashenko in 2020's elections.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Friday that he had joined a video conference call to warn his opposition against disruptive activities.

Lukashenko said the journalist and his associates were working with foreign intelligence agencies to "organize a massacre and a bloody rebellion in Belarus."

"We do not know where he is and in what condition," Svetlana Tikhanouskaya said on Monday.

"It would knock the air out of any hope Biden as president will be more than just 'not-Trump,'" warned Ishena Robinson, a Chicago writer for The Root.

Plymouth City Council approved a planned $3 million renovation, which will create a new Scientology church.

"Maduro, with the help of Cuban intelligence, has a plan, and that is to find new pretexts for arrests of those who seek a return to democracy," one expert told Newsweek.

The U.S.-led coalition claimed to have killed an infamous ISIS commander, but the Syrian government and activists said no.

Both leaders have castigated their democratic opposition as dangerous extremists.

"It would have been great if he had used his voice for the good of people in Africa. I'm a musician, but I am not allowed to stage a show in my own country because I disagree with the president," Bobi Wine said.

"Every time some anti-white, anti-American, anti-freedom event takes place, you look at it, and it's Jews behind it," the posters read.

The president said the coup was planned by rogue elements within the military, communist rebels and opposing political parties.

Russian opposition activists mounted a day of protests on local polling day, off the back of mass public outrage at an increase of the country's retirement age.

In March, Alexei Muzhetsky was abducted and attacked by men posing as Russian security agents, the Agora human rights group said.

Zimbabwe's security forces have harassed activists and leaders supporting the MDC Alliance.

Maduro accused exiled opposition leader Julio Borges and lawmaker Juan Requesens of planning the attack.

"When you first spot Mars rising in the east after sunset, you'll be startled by how bright it looks," Sky & Telescope editor says.

A drop in Putin's popularity comes at a time when Russian dissatisfaction in state polls is gradually building.

More than 500 people have summarily been executed in raids since 2015, with security forces arranging the scene to suggesting victims "resisted arrest."

"Do you know Russian? Are you an [sic] US citizen with a college degree? Do you have an interest in serving your country?"

Last year saw a peak in almost a quarter of a century for Russians seeking to leave their homeland for the U.S., on the grounds of persecution.

"This is legalized rape of children," said Eileen Recktenwald, executive director of the Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs.

Hacking the 2016 election was just another front against the US.

The nature of the Assad regime does not lend itself to sharing power.

The Kremlin will step up its fight against 'national traitors,' the 'fifth column' and foreign agents.