Russia expels 23 British diplomats in retaliation as diplomatic spat over Sergei Skripal poisoning intensifies
British Council activities in Russia have also been stoppedJudith Vonberg
Russia has announced it will expel 23 British diplomats in response to the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats from Britain.
The move marks the latest development in the diplomatic spat over the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury on 4 March.
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday morning that the 23 diplomatic representatives of the British Embassy in Moscow should leave Russia within a week.
Aung San Suu Kyi: lawyers seek prosecution for crimes against humanity
Australian lawyers file private case against Myanmar leader over treatment of Rohingya while she attends summit in Sydney
Lawyers in Melbourne have filed a private prosecution application against Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is in Australia, on charges of crimes against humanity.
The private prosecution application faces significant barriers to proceeding – a universal jurisdiction prosecution in Australia requires the consent of the attorney general.
Aung San Suu Kyi, who is state counsellor and de facto leader of the Myanmar government, is accused in the application of crimes against humanity for the deportation or forcible transfer of a population in relation to widespread and ongoing human rights abuses inside Myanmar.UN highlights murder of dozens of activists in Colombia after FARC peace deal
Many activists have been targeted in former FARC territory now controlled by drug gangs and smaller rebel groups. The UN has said the government has not done enough to protect activists.
More than 80 human rights activists were killed in Colombia in 2017 despite a recent peace deal ending a decades-long civil war, the United Nations said on Friday.
The conflict between the government and the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) killed about 200,000 people before FARC renounced violence in 2016 and vacated areas of the country it had previously controlled.
But the UN's human rights agency, UNHRC, said that while the peace deal led to fewer murders nationwide, violence against human rights activists has continued.
China's feared anti-corruption crackdown is widening its net
The world's biggest anti-corruption campaign, which has already snared 1.5 million Chinese officials over five years, is about to get bigger.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, who this week shook off presidential term limits through an historic vote of China's rubber stamp parliament, has now unleashed his signature anti-corruption drive on anyone in a position of power in public duty.
Until now, it has been restricted to Communist Party members, where it has felled Xi's political rivals, military generals and a spy chief.
Ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is fired -- and fires back
Updated 0541 GMT (1341 HKT) March 17, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe late Friday, less than two days shy of his retirement, ending the career of an official who had risen to serve as second-in-command at the bureau.
McCabe had more recently been regularly taunted by President Donald Trump and besieged by accusations that he had misled internal investigators at the Justice Department.
In a blistering statement Friday night, McCabe said his firing is part of a larger effort to discredit the FBI and the special counsel's investigation.
Croatia's 'alt-right': A dangerous group on the margins
A 28-year-old with long history of neo-fascist activism claims to have created a Croatian version of the 'alt-right'.
Frano Cirko sat in an upscale cafe in the Croatian capital and took sips of an espresso as he boasted of founding the country's version of the "alt-right" movement.
The alt-right is a loosely knit coalition of white nationalists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis who campaign for an exclusively white ethnostate in North America.
Placing his coffee cup on the table and folding his hands, the 28-year-old said he founded the far-right Generation of Renovation party in February 2017 with the hopes of creating a Croatian version alt-right and the anti-immigrant European Identitarian movement.
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