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 by Staff Writers Brussels (AFP) Sept 3, 2020
NATO on Thursday announced a special meeting of its ruling council to discuss the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny with Novichok. The North Atlantic Council will meet on Friday, with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to address the media afterwards. German officials will brief the other 29 allies, after Berlin announced there was "unequivocal evidence" the 44-year-old Kremlin critic had been poisoned with the nerve agent. Novichok was the substance used against Russian ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the English town of Salisbury two years ago. The Skripal case -- the first use of offensive use of chemical weapons in Europe since World War II -- prompted NATO to expel seven Russian diplomats in retaliation. The Navalny poisoning, the latest in a long series of assassination attempts against Kremlin critics, has triggered international outrage and demands for punitive measures against Moscow.
Trump losing military support in election: poll Washington (AFP) Aug 31, 2020 Just 37.4 percent of active personnel in the US military support President Donald Trump's re-election, while 43.1 percent back his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, according to a new poll Monday. The poll by the Military Times and the Syracuse University Institute for Veterans and Military Families found that half of servicemen and women have an unfavorable view of Trump, and 42 percent strongly disapprove of him, compared to 38 percent with a favorable view of the Republican leader. Support for ... read more
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