A plane carrying a Russian dissident who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning left for a German hospital Saturday following much wrangling over Alexei Navalny’s condition and treatment. The plane could be seen taking off from an airport in the Siberian city of Omsk just after 8 a.m. local time. Navalny, a 44-year-old […]

A Russian hospital treating political opposition activist Alexei Navalny believes he fell into a coma because of low blood sugar levels caused by a metabolic disorder. The hospital’s head doctor, Alexander Murakhovsky, said the most likely cause of Navalny’s condition was a disorder pertaining to his metabolism of carbohydrates, according to comments carried by state […]

Thousands marched Friday in the streets of Mali’s capital to celebrate the overthrow of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, as the West African nation’s political opposition backed the military’s junta plan to eventually hand over power to a civilian transitional government. But as opponents of the former regime moved ahead with plans for the future, the […]

Russian doctors gave a dissident who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning permission to be transferred abroad for medical treatment, in a sudden reversal Friday that came after more than 24 hours of wrangling over Alexei Navalny’s condition and treatment. Navalny, a 44-year-old politician and corruption investigator who is one of Russian President […]

US President Donald Trump slammed the Democrats for staging what he described as “the darkest and angriest and gloomiest convention in American history,” after the rival party wrapped up their four-day gathering. Trump, speaking Friday in Virginia, denounced the centre-left bloc for “attacking” the US on racism, and took umbrage with Joe Biden, the Democratic […]