FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON WARNS PUTIN

Speaking to CBS News, 43-year-old President Emmanuel Macron, who faces a tough election battle next April 22, 2022, talked tough about Russian forces amassed on the Russian side of the border with Donabass, Ukraine. “We will never accept new military operations on...

PUTIN SENDS WARSHIPS TO THE BLACK SEA

Sending two Russian warships and a flotilla of 15 smaller vessels to through the Bosphorus Strait to the Black Sea, 68-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin called 78-year-old President Joe Biden’s bluff. Biden said April 9 that he was sending two U.S. warships to...

NAVALNY BLAMES HUNGER STRIKE ON PRISON

Keeping 44-year-old jailed Russian dissident Alexi Navalny in the headlines, his personal doctor Yaroslav Ashikhmin said his health had deteriorated to the point that it threatened his life. “His condition is indeed critical,” said Alexandra Zakharova, spokeswoma for...

IRAN WANTS BIDEN TO END SANCTIONS

Resuming talks in Vienna to restart the July 15, 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA], Iran announced Tuesday that it was adding 1,000 advanced centrifuges at its underground Natanz facility to enrich uranium to 60%, one small step from weapons grade fuel....

BIDEN STANDS DOWN IN UKRAINE

After pledging “unwavering support” April 2 in a call to 43-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as they battle so-called Russian aggression in Crimea and the Donbass region,, 78-year-old President Joe Biden folded his cards. Canceling his show of force to...