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CNN — Vladimir Putin, meet the Law of Unintended Consequences. In the years leading up to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a St. Petersburg-based businessman named Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as a canny political entrepreneur. Prigozhin and his companies served the interests of the Russian state, advancing Putin’s foreign policy in…
CNN — Yevgeny Prigozhin is the founder and bombastic leader of Russia’s private military group Wagner. His organization is now in the midst of an apparent insurrection, after claiming control of military facilities in two cities and threatening to march on Moscow. Prigozhin was once a close ally of Russian…
CNN — This just does not happen in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Especially in public. The Russian president is facing the most serious threat to his hold on power in all the 23 years he’s run the nuclear state. And it is staggering to behold the veneer of total control he…
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, arrives during a funeral ceremony at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow, Russia, on April 8. AP Yevgeny Prigozhin is the chief of Russia’s private mercenary group Wagner, which has been at the forefront of much of the fighting in Russia’s war…
CNN — Yevgeny Prigozhin, the bombastic chief of Russia’s private mercenary group Wagner, appears to be falling out of favor fast in Moscow, after he unleashed a tirade against the Russian military on Friday and vowed to retaliate against its leaders. Russia’s domestic intelligence service, the FSB, has opened a…
CNN — Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of private military group Wagner, has vowed to retaliate after accusing Russia’s military leadership of killing a “huge amount” of his forces in strikes – prompting Russia’s domestic intelligence service to open a criminal case against him. In a series of Telegram posts on…
CNN — Here’s a look at the Tour de France. July 1-23, 2023 – The 110th Tour de France is scheduled to take place. July 1-24, 2022 – The 109th Tour de France takes place. Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard wins his first Tour de France title. The Tour de France…
CNN — Around 300 women took part in a sit-in outside Padua’s palace of justice on Friday, after a state prosecutor in the northern Italian city said the birth certificates of 33 children born to lesbian couples were not legal. In a peaceful protest, the women held up signs with…
CNN — The hull of the fishing trawler lifted out of the water as it sank, catapulting people from the top deck into the black sea below. In the darkness, they grabbed onto whatever they could to stay afloat, pushing each other underwater in a frantic fight for survival. Some…
CNN — Tributes from grief-stricken relatives and friends have been pouring in after a “catastrophic implosion” killed all five passengers on board a Titanic-bound submersible at the bottom of the ocean. A dayslong international search effort concluded Thursday after debris from the submersible – known as the Titan – was…
Neskuchne, Ukraine CNN — The bangs of incoming and outgoing shelling are the soundtrack of Ukraine’s frontline. But its president warned this week that the counteroffensive should not be seen through the lens of a Hollywood movie. Just outside the newly liberated villages of Neskuchne and Storozheve, Ukrainian soldiers take…
The damaged Chonhar bridge connecting Russian-held parts of Ukraine’s Kherson region to the Crimean peninsula is seen on June 22. Russian-installed leader of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo/Telegram/Reuters Almost as if to answer Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s statement the counteroffensive is “slower” than some might have imagined, a pinpoint strike hit a key pair…
CNN — Here’s a look at the British Open. July 16-23, 2023 – The 151st Open Championship is scheduled to take place at Royal Liverpool in Hoylake, Wirral, England. July 14-17, 2022 – Cameron Smith wins the 150th Open Championship on the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland, for his…
Madrid CNN — Dozens of people are feared drowned after a migrant boat sank near Spain’s Canary Islands on Wednesday, according to Spanish officials and aid group Walking Borders. Authorities have recovered two bodies, including a young boy, but the true number of those who were on board is not…
CNN — The Vatican said Thursday it will hand over evidence in the disappearance of a 15-year-old daughter of one of its employees 40 years ago to the Rome city prosecutor. Emanuela Orlandi, who was the daughter of a prominent Vatican employee and lived within the walls of the holy…
CNN — A German court has convicted a former ISIS member of war crimes for enslaving and abusing a young Yazidi woman, the victim’s counsel said Wednesday. The convicted German national, a 37-year-old woman referred to by the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz as Nadine K., was found guilty of…
CNN — Almost as if to answer Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s statement the counteroffensive is “slower” than some might have imagined, a pinpoint strike hit a key pair of bridges for Russia’s occupation. The Chonhar bridges are both rail and road crossings, and head from the northeast of occupied Crimea…
London CNN — Carl Nwazota was born and grew up in the London suburb of Wembley to parents from Jamaica and Nigeria. For 26 years, he was a UK citizen with a British passport – until it was confiscated by the Home Office after he tried to renew it in…
CNN — Russia’s Supreme Court has on Thursday dismissed an appeal by jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny against restrictions imposed on access to writing materials in prison, according to Russian independent news site Mediazona. Navalny, who attended the hearing via video link, had been challenging the restrictions imposed on…
Paris CNN — Six people remain in a critical condition and one person is missing after a gas explosion in central Paris on Wednesday, the Paris prosecutor’s office told CNN on Thursday. Some 50 people were injured in the incident, although the Paris prosecutor’s office, which is investigating the blast,…
CNN — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich lost his appeal against the extension of pre-trial detention in Moscow on Thursday on spying charges, which he denies. Gershkovich’s detention, at the notorious Lefortovo prison in Moscow, was extended last month to August 30. He faces up to 20 years in…
Ukrainian servicemen fire a BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system towards Russian troops near a front line in Donetsk region, Ukraine on June 21. Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters Heavy fighting continues in the eastern Donetsk region as Russian forces keep their focus in the areas of Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Mariinka, according to the…
Kyiv CNN — The 34-foot vessel speeds along Ukraine’s Dnipro River at maximum velocity, before its captain shouts: “Hold!” It does a snap turn and then smoothly moves on, in a seamless motion, barely slowing down. With little armor, the US-donated Dauntless Sea Ark patrol boat relies on speed to…
Paris CNN — A fiery gas explosion in central Paris resulted in reported injuries to several people and drew hundreds of firefighters to the scene on Wednesday afternoon. Some 270 firefighters were deployed to the scene near Rue Saint Jacques in the city’s fifth arrondissement, and have contained the fire,…
CNN — The French government has decided to dissolve a climate activist group, following a series of fiery clashes between demonstrators and police. The decision to shut down Soulèvements de la Terre (the Earth Uprisings), an umbrella organization of climate activist groups, was taken by the French cabinet following a…
Andrey Vorobyov/Telegram Russia’s counter-drone measures have successfully thwarted a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attack near a military base outside of Moscow Wednesday, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “There was an attack, the counter-drone means coped with their task. Now the relevant authorities are investigating [the incident],” Peskov told journalists. The…
CNN — Andrew Tate, the self-proclaimed “misogynist” online influencer, was appearing in a Bucharest court alongside his brother Wednesday on charges of human trafficking and rape. Tate told reporters as he entered the Bucharest Tribunal that he believes “in God and I believe in the justice system, and we are…
CNN — The footage is grainy and disturbing. A Ukrainian soldier from the 73rd Naval Special Operations Center fights his way through a trench, apparently on the southern front, shooting Russian soldiers repeatedly at point-blank range. The dust kicked up adds to the sense of chaos, and the dense panic…
Southern Ukraine CNN — Two Ukrainian jets roar just above the trees, flying in formation as they make their way towards the front lines of Ukraine’s counteroffensive. The Soviet-era Su-25s glide slowly, loudly, spewing thick black smoke as they go. They seem to hug the ground — flying as low…
CNN — Temperatures in parts of the North Atlantic Ocean are soaring off the charts, with an “exceptional” marine heat wave happening off the coasts of the United Kingdom and Ireland, sparking concerns about impacts on marine life. Parts of the North Sea are experiencing a category 4 marine heat…
