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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Sat 24 June 2023: At least 281 families have reached the Pakistani government over the Greek boat tragedy last week, the nation’s interior minister told the parliament on Friday. “82 deceased Pakistani victims had been recovered” after they lost their lives in the tragic boat accident off the coast of Greece on June 14, Rana […]
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Sat 24 June 2023: Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has announced the deployment of troops to support the Kremlin against the armed uprising by the Wagner mercenary group. “Fighters from the Ministry of Defence and the National Guard of the Chechen Republic have already left for the tense areas. We will do everything to preserve Russia’s […]
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Sat 24 June 2023: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian military contractor Wagner Group, has rejected accusations of “treason” by President Vladimir Putin after his troops crossed crossed from Ukraine into the Russian border city of Rostov-on-Don, vowing to fight anyone who tried to stop them. On Saturday, Prigozhin posted an audio message on the […]
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Bags of fentanyl and heroin that were seized by authorities. Sat 24 June 2023: Four Chinese firms have been charged with criminal activity by the US justice department for allegedly trafficking raw ingredients used to make the addictive painkiller fentanyl. The three indictments, which were released on Friday, are the first time that the […]
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Sat 24 June 2023: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group in Russia, made an outrageous threat to “stop” the country’s top military officials. He was charged with “inciting an armed uprising” and military vehicles were sent to the streets of Moscow and Rostov-on-Don as a result, The Moscow Times reported. On Friday, […]
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Sat 24 June 2023: Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Friday that the Moscow strikes has killed “huge” numbers of Wagner forces. Accusing Russian military leadership of bombing his forces, Prigozhin also vowed to retailate and “stop” them. WAGNER CHIEF SAYS RUSSIA ‘RETREATING’ FROM UKRAINE ATTACKS In a series of extraordinary audio messages released late […]
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Fri 23 June 2023: United Nations Human Rights chief, Volker Turk, on Friday called on Tunisia to stop restricting media freedoms and said it was criminalising independent journalism since President Kais Saied seized wide powers in 2021, Reuters reports. Freedom of speech and media were key gains for Tunisians after the 2011 revolution that ousted autocratic President, […]
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Fri 23 June 2023: Indian officials agreed to event only the day before, according to Reuters news agency, with an Indian reporter asking him about addressing climate crisis, and an American reporter pressing Modi on human rights concerns. Narendra Modi has done something very unusual at the White House — he took questions from journalists. […]
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Fri 23 June 2023: Users of Facebook and Instagram in Canada will be unable to access Canadian news after the country passed legislation mandating the digital giants to pay for such content. “Exciting news! (No pun intended),” Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez tweeted after the bill passed a final hurdle in the Senate on its way […]
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