Agabdrak

"Спустились вниз, быстро!" - израильский полицейский приказывает перепуганным палестинкам выйти из проулка, где те прятались от столкновений, охвативших в четверг вечером иерусалимский Старый город. Едва женщины трогаются с места, как он швыряет в ту же сторону, по направлению их движения, одну за другой две шумовые гранаты...

The year 2020 was relentless in its efforts to reinvent America including through pain and passion of the Black Lives Matter movement - a nationwide wave of protests in the name of racial equity. What started as an outburst of anger against a random case of police brutality grew to claim a prominent place in a centuries-long struggle for emancipation of communities of color...

WASHINGTON, November 15, 2020 - left-wing activists chased out US President Donald trump's supporters in Washington, DC, and besieged a downtown hotel hosting them, prompting police to step in and forcefully scatter the crowd. Thousands rallied on Saturday in the country's capital to demand four more...

SALEM, Oregon, November 8, 2020 - When the Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was kicking off his victory speech, on the opposite side of America his most radical black-clad allies hit a police cordon on their march to confront the most violent defenders of the Republican incumbent Donald Trump...

Vigo County, Indiana, November 1, 2020 - a family-owned farm in Indiana has been on the forefront of fierce international trade wars for most of Donald trump's presidency. It suffered a collapse in prices and dwindling market shares, had to innovate and economize to stay afloat, but now is back to profits and optimistic the best is yet to come...

Terra Haute, Indiana, October 30, 2020 - chances are you would have never heard of Vigo County, Indiana, but for a collective superpower of its voters. They have unmistakably chosen an eventual winning candidate in every US presidential election since 1956, puzzling political scientists, embarrassing pollsters and mesmerizing the media...

Elizabeth City, January 12, 2020 - a petition to honor World War II Soviet and allied aviators with a monument gained around 3,000 supporters in 18,000-strong Elizabeth City, North Carolina, inviting authorities to revisit their decision to halt the project, Rick Boyd, a local citizen and the petition initiator, said on Sunday...

FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina, March 2, 2020 - Rusty Goins disembowels a kitchen closet to retrieve cast iron pans, stainless steel pans, copper pans, an impressive array of cookware with one exception. There is no Teflon in his entire home. A retired North Carolina engineer has his reasons to detest it...

WASHINGTON, November 2, 2020 - American experts predict that the Democratic challenger Joe Biden, if he wins presidency, will be in the immediate run at least as belligerent towards Russia as the Republican incumbent Donald Trump, yet have a freer hand to rectify abysmal bilateral relations long held hostage to a fierce power struggle in the United States...

Moscow/Scranton, Pennsylvania, October 6, 2020 - Moscow was one of those places which determined the fate of US presidency in 2016. Four years later it once again emerges as a likely kingmaker. And, no, it's not a conspiracy theory. Moscow borough lies in Woody hills of pennsylvania's Lackawanna County...

LOUISVILLE, September 6, 2020 - Hundreds of antiracism protesters and self-defined “American patriots” from predominantly white militias confronted each other in central Louisville, Kentucky, both sides wielding fire arms, but not going beyond verbal barbs and occasional fist fights in the stunning absence of the police...

WASHINGTON, March 17, 2020 - Arturs Grava’s career with the Latvian Waffen-SS legion was a lackluster one - a year and half dodging a German draft and a month dodging Russian bullets on a frontline. Seventy five years later Grava admits his collaboration, even if an involuntary one, was a mistake and reflects on whether he could help the Jews almost totally exterminated in his native country...