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‘Keep your head down’ — Americans in Russia tread carefully after arrest of US journalist

MOSCOW — If Amer­i­cans in Rus­sia were wor­ried before, they now have an extra rea­son to be con­cerned.  The arrest of the Wall Street Jour­nal reporter Evan Ger­shkovich has sent rip­ples of alarm through the com­mu­ni­ty of Amer­i­can jour­nal­ists in Rus­sia, leav­ing many in the coun­try won­der­ing who, if any­one, might be next.  Ger­shkovich was seized by FSB security…

Easter in Ethiopia: Hoping for peace and rebirth

Ethiopia’s small Catholic com­mu­ni­ty cel­e­brates the Res­ur­rec­tion of Christ on 16 April, in line with the cal­en­dar of the Ethiopi­an Cop­tic Ortho­dox Church. The head of the Socio-Pas­­toral Com­mis­sion of the Arch­dio­cese of Addis Aba­ba and a Sale­sian Sis­ter talk about their hopes for true peace in Tigray, and about an inter-con­­gre­­ga­­tion­al net­work project promoted…

Trump’s indictment takes over news channels

This sto­ry, plus news orga­ni­za­tions refuse to pay for Twit­ter check­mark, new data from Pew Research Cen­ter on Amer­i­cans’ sup­port for a Tik­Tok ban and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries Mar 30, 2023Indictment elic­its exten­sive cov­er­age, and some gasps, on TV. Katie Robert­son / The New York Times Mar 30, 2023News organizations […]…

Relations with Africa, Asia are on brink of collapse — to Russia’s benefit

Jérémy Lis­sou­ba is a mem­ber of parlia­ment for the main oppo­si­tion par­ty in the Repub­lic of Con­go. He’s also a deputy judge in the country’s High Court of Jus­tice and an alum­nus of the Oba­ma Foundation’s 2018 Africa Lead­ers Pro­gram. Over a year since the war in Ukraine began, the world remains caught in the…