The United States has held off on joining Britain and Canada in imposing sanctions on Belarus in hopes the European Union can overcome an internal dispute, paving the way to coordinated U.S. and EU sanctions, four sources said on Wednesday.
A prosecutor said two onduty white Alabama officers brutally beat a Black man five months ago after the victim got into a roadrage incident with the wife of one of the officers.
A popular opposition politician in Venezuela urged authorities on Wednesday to delay upcoming congressional elections, saying it's the only way to create free and fair conditions for the vote.European Union leaders will try to break a stalemate over Belarus on Thursday by untangling a separate standoff with Turkey that has exposed the paralysis in the bloc's decisionmaking.
A Black deathrow inmate who was convicted of kidnapping and killing a Texas teenager in 1994 has been scheduled for execution in November, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
The U.N. Security Council called on Armenia and Azerbaijan Tuesday to immediately halt fighting over the separatist territory of NagornoKarabakh and urgently resume talks without preconditions.
By Colby Smith, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, Nikolay Nikolov, Laura Salaberry and Zach Wood from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/fUkhLjP
