by Jim Heath | May 5, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
Kate Middleton and Prince William have announced they are launching a YouTube channel as discussion of the future of the monarchy swirls after the death of Prince Philip. The Duke, 38, and Duchess of Cambridge, 39, posted a 25-second clip on their social media...
by Jim Heath | Apr 14, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Joe Biden
President Biden announced today he was pulling the remaining 2,500 U.S. forces out of Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks because the U.S. has ‘accomplished’ the mission. ‘I said, along with others, we’d follow Osama...
by Jim Heath | Apr 9, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
Prince Philip, the love of Queen Elizabeth‘s life, has died. He was 99. Steadfast companions for seven decades, the Queen and Philip had the longest royal marriage in history — one that withstood war, family upheaval and a lifetime on the world stage. “It is...
by Jim Heath | Feb 28, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Putin
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who survived a chemical poisoning last year that he called a Kremlin attempt to kill him, has begun serving his two-and-a-half-year sentence at a notorious penal camp. Navalny, who was removed from his Moscow jail cell...
by Jim Heath | Jan 31, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Putin
Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up nationwide protests that have rattled the Kremlin. More than 5,100 people were...
by Jim Heath | Jan 4, 2021 | coronavirus, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Health
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has plunged England into a new national lockdown until at least mid-February to combat the super-infectious mutant coronavirus that is already spreading across the United States. Johnson today ordered people to stay at home again,...
