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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Mon 26 June 2023: New Delhi: Top wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia who had led the protest demanding action against the Wrestling Federation of India chief and Bharatiya Janata Party MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in the light of severe sexual harassment allegations against him, have posted identical tweets saying that their fight […]
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Mon 26 June 2023: The pilgrimage of Hajj has begun as crowds of Muslims donning white robes circle the Kaaba, the cubed structure at the epicentre of Islam’s holiest site, their prayers ringing through the air. The annual pilgrimage began on Sunday in Mecca, Saudi Arabia with the tawaf, the circling of the Kaaba, in an event […]
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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: 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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Sun 25 June 2023: An airstrike early Sunday over a busy vegetable market in northwestern Syria killed at least nine people, activists and local first responders said. Activists and Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Russia, a top ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, launched the strike over the […]
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Sun 25 June 2023: Sabrina Siddiqui, the journalist from the United States who questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi on ‘discrimination against minorities in India’ during his visit to the US, was trolled and abused by pro-Hindutva social media users, notably on Twitter. Siddiqui is the White House correspondent for The Washington Post. In one of the […]
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Sun 25 June 2023: It is easy to understand what African rulers see in the mercenary group Wagner. Its fighters can be deployed quickly. It brings sophisticated arms with it and can apply force speedily and ruthlessly. Alternative sources of military muscle have flaws: United Nations missions lack robust mandates; African Union (AU) forces lack […]
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Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif (R) with his brother and former PM Nawaz Sharif (R). FILE PHOTO Sat 24 June 2023: A Pakistani court on Saturday acquitted former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in a 37-year-old case related to him allegedly transferring a “precious state land” to one of the country’s leading media house owner […]
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Sat 24 June 2023: Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin says he ordered his mercenaries to halt their march on Moscow to avoid “shedding Russian blood”. Prigozhin said while his men are just 200km (120 miles) from Moscow, he decided on Saturday to turn them back to prevent killings. “We are turning our columns around and going […]
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