Slovaks are voting in early elections following the collapse of the former centre-right government. Leading most polls is the populist SMER party of Robert Fico, who has pledged an immediate end to Slovak military support for Ukraine. Fico was forced to step down as prime minister following the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak in 2018."If SMER enters government, we will not send a single round of ammunition to Ukraine," he recently told supporters. The threat has set alarm bells ringing in Western capitals, as they scour the veneer of NATO and EU unity for signs of cracks. It's...…Slovaks are voting in early elections following the collapse of the former centre-right government. Leading most polls is the populist SMER party of Robert Fico, who has pledged an immediate end to Slovak military support for Ukraine. Fico was forced to step down as prime minister following the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak in 2018."If SMER enters government, we will not send a single round of ammunition to Ukraine," he recently told supporters. The threat has set alarm bells ringing in Western capitals, as they scour the veneer of NATO and EU unity for signs of cracks. It's...WW…

A Czech politician in hiding amid allegations of a Russian assassination plot says he believes the threat against him is credible and he fears for his life. Three Prague politicians are under 24-hour police guard because of the alleged plot to poison them - claims categorically denied by Moscow."It's very difficult," said Ondrej Kolar, mayor of Prague's sixth district, speaking to the BBC from an undisclosed location under heavy police guard."I haven't seen my children for quite a long time, and they haven't seen me. Even my family doesn't know where I am," he told me via Skype, now his...…A Czech politician in hiding amid allegations of a Russian assassination plot says he believes the threat against him is credible and he fears for his life. Three Prague politicians are under 24-hour police guard because of the alleged plot to poison them - claims categorically denied by Moscow."It's very difficult," said Ondrej Kolar, mayor of Prague's sixth district, speaking to the BBC from an undisclosed location under heavy police guard."I haven't seen my children for quite a long time, and they haven't seen me. Even my family doesn't know where I am," he told me via Skype, now his...WW…

U.S. President Donald Trump has committed sedition in broad daylight and incited a violent attempted coup that had the unintended effect of disrupting a political one. Both attempts failed for many reasons, but the question is how they even got that close. The answer is simple. The invaders were not Black.While many of the police present made heroic efforts to protect the people inside the halls of the Capitol building during the mob attack on Jan. 6, and one gave his life doing so, they were hampered by leadership that did not see the real threat that the mob posed, by posing in selfies...…U.S. President Donald Trump has committed sedition in broad daylight and incited a violent attempted coup that had the unintended effect of disrupting a political one. Both attempts failed for many reasons, but the question is how they even got that close. The answer is simple. The invaders were not Black.While many of the police present made heroic efforts to protect the people inside the halls of the Capitol building during the mob attack on Jan. 6, and one gave his life doing so, they were hampered by leadership that did not see the real threat that the mob posed, by posing in selfies...WW…