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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 …

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is quitting as a member of parliament, immediately. In a statement on Friday he said, I am being forced out by a tiny handful of people. Johnson had been fighting for his political life. His premiership had been cut short last year partly by …

  Researchers have identified the first known case of a crocodile making herself pregnant and producing a fetus that was genetically identical to herself.   The findings were published on Wednesday, June 7, by a team led by evolutionary biologist Warren Booth from Virginia Tech in Biology Letters, a journal published …

Hours after President of the United States (POTUS), Joe Biden, tripped and fell to the ground at an Air Force graduation event in Colorado on Thursday, June 1, his predecessor Donald Trump reacted to the development. Asked by reporters at an event about the incident, Trump wondered if indeed Biden …

Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and related events cost the government an estimated £162m, the Treasury has said. The state funeral, held on 19 September 2022, followed a period of national mourning. During that time hundreds of thousands of people visited Westminster where the monarch was lying in state. The biggest …