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The top Ukrainian official who was fired for spreading misinformation has admitted that she lied about Russians committing mass rape in order to convince western countries to send more weapons to Ukraine.Lyudmila Denisova, the former Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, was removed from her position following a vote of no confidence in the Ukrainian parliament which passed by a margin of 234-to-9.Parliament member Pavlo Frolov specifically accused Denisova of pushing misinformation that “only harmed Ukraine” in relation to “the numerous details of ‘unnatural sexual offenses’ and child sexual abuses in the occupied territories, which were unsupported by evidence.”In an...

A University of Michigan professor refused to help a student study abroad in Israel because of an academic boycott against the country — and claims he’s getting death threats for his decision. John Cheney-Lippold, an associate professor in the American culture department, told student Abigail Ingber he couldn’t write her a letter of recommendation to study in Israel, citing an academic boycott of the country. “As you may know, many university departments have pledged an academic boycott against Israel in support of the Palestinians living in Palestine,” Cheney-Lippold wrote in an email, a screenshot of which was posted to Facebook...

A University of Michigan professor has come under fire for declining to provide a recommendation letter, citing his support for an Israel boycott.

With the media's fixation on Karl Rove's chatty telephone habits, President Bush's greeting this week of two prime ministers almost escaped notice. It shouldn't have. Indeed, it took an Australian correspondent in Prime Minister John Howard's press retinue to break through our homegrown journalists' myopia. He waited patiently, this scribbler from Down Under, as his Yankee counterparts could only obsess about who leaked CIA employee Valerie Plame's name. Sensing that the East Room needed some substance, he asked Messrs. Bush and Howard about how the two countries would manage relations with China. Beijing's mounting influence, by turns, seems to welcome...