BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Three suspects went on trial Wednesday before a federal court in Argentina for the assassination attempt two years ago of then-Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, one of the country’s most powerful and divisive political figures in recent decades. On that day, Sept. 1, 2022, Fernández stepped out of her […]
Volodymyr Zelensky has ordered the new chief of Ukraine’s state guard service to purge its ranks after two of its officers were accused of plans to assassinate senior officials. The state security service (SBU) said last month that it had caught two guard service colonels accused of cooperating with Russia to plot the assassination of […]
Voters in Slovakia, Italy and other European Union nations are casting their ballots on the third day of elections for the European Parliament, with populist and far-right parties looking to make gains across the 27-member bloc. In Slovakia, the election was overshadowed by an attempt to assassinate populist Prime Minister Robert Fico on May 15, […]
PRAGUE (AP) — Voters in Slovakia, Italy and other European Union nations are casting their ballots Saturday on the third day of elections for the European Parliament, with populist and far-right parties looking to make gains across the 27-member bloc. In Slovakia, the election was overshadowed by an attempt to assassinate populist Prime Minister Robert […]
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico said Wednesday he believes he was targeted for having a Ukraine position contrary to the European mainstream but bears no malice toward the gunman who seriously wounded him three weeks ago. The prerecorded speech posted online by Fico, who opposes military aid to Ukraine, was […]
On Tuesday evening I was stopped mid-task, stunned, when I saw the subject line on a new fundraising email from Donald Trump: “They were authorized to shoot me!” By Thursday morning, however, when I got the email that had Trump crying, “I nearly escaped death,” I was savvy to his con. My fear, however, is […]
On Tuesday evening I was stopped mid-task, stunned, when I saw the subject line on a new fundraising email from Donald Trump: “They were authorized to shoot me!” By Thursday morning, however, when I got the email that had Trump crying, “I nearly escaped death,” I was savvy to his con. My fear, however, is […]
“The Daily Show” cheekily played into Donald Trump’s assertion that the 2022 raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate was actually a government-sanctioned attempt on his life, churning out new nicknames for President Biden like “John Wilkes Biden” and “Double Joe Seven.” In a Friday digital segment, the late night show correspondent Desi Lydic broke down Biden’s […]
Donald Trump and some of his staunchest allies are claiming newly unsealed court filings reveal that US President Joe Biden authorized federal agents to kill him during the FBI’s 2022 raid of the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate in search of classified documents. This is false; the allegations misrepresent the Justice Department’s standard policies regarding how […]
Congressional allies of Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to misconstrue standard operating procedure at the FBI with what they called an attempt by President Joe Biden’s administration to assassinate the former president during a 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago property for classified documents. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., wrote on X that the Justice Department […]
Slovak populist prime minister Robert Fico’s condition is improving following an assassination attempt last week that shocked the country, officials said. The hospital treating the Slovak leader in the central city of Banska Bystrica said: “After today’s consultation, the patient’s condition is stabilised.” A statement released by the clinic said Mr Fico is “clinically improving, […]
(Reuters) – It’s every amateur photographer’s nightmare: you spy a once-in-a-lifetime picture, and you forget to change your camera settings. But it can happen to a seasoned professional, too. Reuters stringer Radovan Stoklasa was one of the few people left in a makeshift press centre in the Slovakian town of Handlova about 40 minutes after […]