The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures. Getting audio file ... Audio for this article is not available at this time. This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. The series of events that led to Tuesday’s catastrophic explosion in Beirut appears to have begun in late 2013, when technical problems forced a cargo ship to make an unscheduled stop in the city’s port. Lebanon’s port authorities were shocked when they boarded the vessel to inspect it. Not only was the merchant vessel...…The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures. Getting audio file ... Audio for this article is not available at this time. This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. The series of events that led to Tuesday’s catastrophic explosion in Beirut appears to have begun in late 2013, when technical problems forced a cargo ship to make an unscheduled stop in the city’s port. Lebanon’s port authorities were shocked when they boarded the vessel to inspect it. Not only was the merchant vessel...WW…

LondonMilitary units and riot police tried to take over the streets of Belarus on Sunday, in an attempt to choke off opposition claims of victory in a hotly disputed election closely watched by both Russia and the West.There were clashes around the capital city of Minsk well after midnight local time, as thousands of protesters vented their rage at the regime, but were met with lines of riot police who fired tear gas and stun grenades into the crowds.The crackdown, if it succeeds, would keep strongman Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994, in office for at least another...…LondonMilitary units and riot police tried to take over the streets of Belarus on Sunday, in an attempt to choke off opposition claims of victory in a hotly disputed election closely watched by both Russia and the West.There were clashes around the capital city of Minsk well after midnight local time, as thousands of protesters vented their rage at the regime, but were met with lines of riot police who fired tear gas and stun grenades into the crowds.The crackdown, if it succeeds, would keep strongman Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994, in office for at least another...WW…

In depth • •There was a joke more than 30 years ago, when immigrants from the former Soviet Union began settling in Toronto’s North York neighbourhood, that they came here because it was as drab and grey as the Soviet cities they’d left behind.That description still fits parts of this vast and occasionally bleak suburb. But not this tidy, manicured avenue, lined as it is with multimillion-dollar houses – one of which, for me, is the end of a journey that began shortly after the January, 2017, inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, when a diplomatic source capped off our lunch in an...…In depth • •There was a joke more than 30 years ago, when immigrants from the former Soviet Union began settling in Toronto’s North York neighbourhood, that they came here because it was as drab and grey as the Soviet cities they’d left behind.That description still fits parts of this vast and occasionally bleak suburb. But not this tidy, manicured avenue, lined as it is with multimillion-dollar houses – one of which, for me, is the end of a journey that began shortly after the January, 2017, inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, when a diplomatic source capped off our lunch in an...WW…

Mykolaiv, ukraineThe day after a Russian missile struck a Canadian-owned vegetable oil terminal in this southern Ukrainian city, police sealed off the surrounding streets, fearing the Russians might strike it again.Forty-eight hours after the June 22 attack, the police were gone, and local residents rushed to fill plastic jugs from the shallow stream of vegetable oil that was mixing with dirt and trash in a gutter behind the facility.The scene outside the Viterra terminal was a grim snapshot of the worsening global food crisis. Ukrainians filling their jugs with contaminated oil said they...…Mykolaiv, ukraineThe day after a Russian missile struck a Canadian-owned vegetable oil terminal in this southern Ukrainian city, police sealed off the surrounding streets, fearing the Russians might strike it again.Forty-eight hours after the June 22 attack, the police were gone, and local residents rushed to fill plastic jugs from the shallow stream of vegetable oil that was mixing with dirt and trash in a gutter behind the facility.The scene outside the Viterra terminal was a grim snapshot of the worsening global food crisis. Ukrainians filling their jugs with contaminated oil said they...WW…

Kyiv and ottawaA senior Ukrainian security official says he believes Iran intentionally shot down an airliner full of passengers early last year, possibly with the intent of ending a cycle of military escalation with the United States.All 167 and nine crew, including 55 Canadian citizens, 30 permanent residents and 53 others who were travelling to Canada via Kyiv, were killed when Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot out of the sky on Jan. 8, 2020.Oleksiy Danilov, who as secretary of the National Defence and Security Council oversaw the early stages of Ukraine’s own...…Kyiv and ottawaA senior Ukrainian security official says he believes Iran intentionally shot down an airliner full of passengers early last year, possibly with the intent of ending a cycle of military escalation with the United States.All 167 and nine crew, including 55 Canadian citizens, 30 permanent residents and 53 others who were travelling to Canada via Kyiv, were killed when Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot out of the sky on Jan. 8, 2020.Oleksiy Danilov, who as secretary of the National Defence and Security Council oversaw the early stages of Ukraine’s own...WW…

LondonJoe Biden came into office promising to restore America’s moral authority in the world to what it was before Donald Trump’s election in 2016. He has since received some early reality checks about how much the world has changed since then.It is in the Middle East – and his country’s tangled relationships with Saudi Arabia and Iran – where Mr. Biden’s heady rhetoric about putting human rights and international law back at the centre of U.S. foreign policy have predictably crashed into hard truths.The first major test of how far Mr. Biden might go in changing America’s approach to the...…LondonJoe Biden came into office promising to restore America’s moral authority in the world to what it was before Donald Trump’s election in 2016. He has since received some early reality checks about how much the world has changed since then.It is in the Middle East – and his country’s tangled relationships with Saudi Arabia and Iran – where Mr. Biden’s heady rhetoric about putting human rights and international law back at the centre of U.S. foreign policy have predictably crashed into hard truths.The first major test of how far Mr. Biden might go in changing America’s approach to the...WW…