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President Vladimir Putin of Russia will not attend the funeral for Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary chief who launched a failed mutiny against Russia’s military leadership and and died in a plane crash last week, the Kremlin spokesman said on Tuesday, according to Russian state media. The spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, …

Turning briefly away from the plane crash in Russia to Kyiv now, where it’s 32 years since Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union. Before the conflict, a military parade would march through central Kyiv. But to mark the occasion this year, destroyed Russian tanks and other military hardware are …

A UK man has been jailed for draining tens of thousands of pounds from his father’s bank accounts by faking both his voice and that of his dead mother, during phone calls with bank staff. A complex police investigation found that during a 14-month period in 2017 and 2018, just …

A rescue worker searches for victims after a train derailed in Sarhari town in district Sanghar, Pakistan August 6, 2023. A passenger train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 80, local broadcaster Geo reported citing a district official. Around 10 cars …

In the late hours of Friday, June 23, news reports began to emerge of mercenary group from Russia, Wagner saying its mercenaries have seized “all military facilities” in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don. Leader of the group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in an earlier video message, said President Vladimir Putin had made …

Three British tourists were missing and 12 had been rescued after a motor boat caught fire on Sunday off the Egyptian Red Sea coast, Egyptian officials and security sources said. The survivors were brought to safety in the nearby diving resort of Marsa Shagra, about 21km (13 miles) north of …

Marriages in China dropped in 2022 to their lowest since records began, local news outlet Yicai reported on Sunday, continuing a steady decline over the past decade although the matrimonial total may have been affected by stringent COVID lockdowns. Just 6.83 million couples completed their marriage registrations last year, data …

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to have confirmed that his country’s long-awaited counter-offensive against Russia has started. “Counter-offensive and defensive actions are taking place,” he said. But he added that he would not talk in detail about which stage or state the counter-offensive was in. The comments come after an …

One school district for di US state for Utah don comot di Bible from elementary and middle schools say e get “vulgarity and violence”. Dis dey come afta one parent complain say di King James Bible tok tins wey pikin dem no suppose hear. Utah Republican goment pass law for …

Donald Trump’s indictment on federal charges has been unsealed, and the full scope of the case against the former president for mishandling classified documents is coming into view. Mr Trump has been charged with 37 counts of unauthorised possession of classified material, obstruction of justice, concealing documents and making false …