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Dictators, Dissidents and Dangerous Places
Israeli Air Force officer Aviem Sella was indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury in March 1987 on three counts of espionage for recruiting Jonathan Pollard to hand over secrets.
Spy rings keep getting busted and a massive hack of U.S. government departments has been exposed, but Russia’s spooks keep blundering on.
The drug lord had a penchant for buying exotic animals with his ill-gotten gains. Now the descendants of four of his hippos are causing an environmental headache in Colombia.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained promptly after returning to Russian soil five months after he was the victim of an assassination attempt.
#ReturntheBodies is trending on Twitter as families demand the Indian army return three young men killed in a gun battle in December, and launch an investigation into the deaths.
Russian media is gleefully peddling the fiction that Biden, not Trump, was behind the siege on the U.S. Capitol.
With the origins of COVID-19 still murky, and a long history of viruses jumping from animals to humans inside China, conditions are ripe for another disaster.