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Thomson Reuters The Czech Republic has extradited Russian citizen Yevgeniy Nikulin to the United States where he is accused of hacking social networks including LinkedIn. The decision by Czech Justice Minister Robert Pelikan defies Russia which had also asked for his extradition after Nikulin was arrested in Prague in cooperation with the FBI in 2016. […]
Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic have defended their sovereign “right” to reject EU-imposed refugee quotas after the European Commission referred the “breach of their legal obligations” to the European Court of Justice. The EU introduced migrant quotas in September 2015. It was conceived as a temporary emergency scheme to relocate some 160,000 refugees across […]
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque The Czech Republic recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. US President Donald Trump made the US the first nation to do so earlier on Wednesday. The Czech Republic on Wednesday followed US President Donald Trump’s lead. In a statement on its Foreign Ministry’s web site, it said, “The Czech Republic currently, before the […]
Longer and further away than the events of George Lucas prequel trilogy lies the story of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, a role-playing video game from 2003 that followed an epic battle between the Jedi and the Sith. The video game was hugely popular among Star Wars fans, garnering critical acclaim a sequel. But fans […]
Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images Hamilton Fish V, the publisher of the left-leaning outlet The New Republic, has taken a leave of absence as the company investigates sexual harassment allegations against him, The New York Times reported on Sunday. Win McCormack, the liberal activist who bought the publication in 2016, sent out a memo to staffers on Sunday […]
Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments as to whether the contorted voting maps drawn by both parties to cement their power have finally gone too far. Up for challenge is a Wisconsin legislative map. WSJ.com: What’s News US
1. Cape Angela in Tunisia is the northernmost point of the continent of Africa. 2. Since the “Jasmine Revolution” of 2011, Tunisia has been the most democratic state in the Arab world. 3. The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, a group of four institutions dedicated to bringing democracy, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015. 4. […]
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Back in 2014, YesVideo set up its Legacy Republic division and invested $ 6 million in it to hire consultants to help people convert their family photo albums and old videos into digital formats. While YesVideo focuses on providing services at retail, Legacy Republic goes directly after consumers in their homes. And to do that, […]
A person infected with the Ebola virus in Democratic Republic of Congo has died, a spokesman for the UN.’s World Health Organization told Reuters on Friday. CBC | Health News
