Tue 27 June 2023: Aircrafts have experienced increasing amounts of unexpected turbulance over the past four decades, a new study by scientists at the University of Reading in Britain has found. The study found that the increase in turbulence was particularly strong over the United States and the North Atlantic, but other regions are also […]
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Tue 27 June 2023: A number of claims and counterclaims are being made on the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the ground and online. While Independent Press takes utmost care to accurately report this developing news story, we cannot independently verify the authenticity of all statements, photos and videos. ______________________________________________________________ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has paid a […]
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Tue 27 June 2023: In response to what they allege are unwarranted price increases, European consumer groups have advised buyers to stop purchasing products from prominent pasta producers such as Barilla, De Cecco, and La Molisana in Italy, and Panzani in France, according to a Financial Times report. EU pasta producers are facing growing pressure […]
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Mon 26 June 2023: Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday evening said Wagner chief Yeveniy Prigozhin’s uprising was “doomed to fail” and that the revolt left the country “united.” Addressing the nation in a televised speech on Monday evening for the first time since Prigozhin halted his march on Moscow, Putin said that “the armed rebellion would have been […]
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Mon 26 June 2023: Wagner’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, called of his march on Moscow hours before receiving threats from Russian intelligence services that they would harm the families of the mercenary group leaders, British intelligence sources told the Telegraph newspaper. On June 24, Prigozhin ordered his troops to halt to Moscow after taking control of […]
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Sun 25 June 2023: Russia’s crisis involving an attempted mercenary revolt against the Kremlin exposed “real cracks” in Putin’s authority after he was forced into an amnesty deal, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. The uprising by the Wagner private mercenary group and its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin over the weekend marked “a direct […]
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Sun 25 June 2023: Scooter, a seven-year-old Chinese crested dog, was voted the champion of the 2023 World’s Ugliest Dog Competition on June 23, beating out seven other dogs. For the past five decades, the world-renowned event has been presented as part of the Sonoma-Marin fair in Petaluma, California. Scooter received a monetary reward of […]
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Sun 25 June 2023: Online publisher Vice Media will be sold to a consortium led by Fortress Investment Group after the bankruptcy court approved its $350m bid on Friday. The investor group, which includes Soros Fund Management and Monroe Capital, bumped up its offer to $350m for all of Vice’s assets and some liabilities, from […]
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Sat 24 June 2023: The Ukrainian army says it has made ground gains in the eastern Donetsk region, driving back occupying Russian troops. “The eastern grouping of troops began an offensive in several sections at the same time today,” Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said on Telegram. She said in the process, Russian troops had […]
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Sat 24 June 2023: The Kremlin has denied Vladimir Putin has fled Moscow by plane after claiming Russia is ‘facing treason’ from members of the mutinous Wagner group. One of several planes that the Russian president uses for official visits took off from Moscow’s Vnukovo airport at 2.16pm local time (1216 BST) and then headed north-west. There have been numerous […]
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