Dutifully performing its role in a highly-choreographed display of political theatre, Russia’s highest court on Monday approved constitutional changes that opened the way for President Vladimir V. Putin to crash through term limits and stay in power through 2036. With a dense 52-page ruling clogged with legalese, the Constitutional Court removed one of the last, albeit very flimsy potential […]
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Day 3 of Kofi Annan’s funeral: What world leaders said in their tributes
Several world leaders are in Ghana’s capital Accra to participate in the final funeral rites of former United Nations Secretary General and Nobel Peace laureate Kofi Atta Annan who died at the age of 80. The late Kofi Annan will be buried today, Thursday after laying in state at the Accra international conference centre for […]