Elon Musk: ‘I should not tweet after 3am’
Billionaire-entrepreneur Elon Musk acknowledged he has made mistakes on social media, in an at-times bizarre interview with the BBC overnight. “Have I shot myself in the foot with tweets multiple...
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Rue du Marché aux Poulets, 32 What’s good? Sharing is caring at Le Conteur, which takes you on a gastronomical tour of Tel Aviv, Rabat and Beirut. If you’re with a group and not in the mood for tough...
View ArticleUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives in the Netherlands
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in the Netherlands late Wednesday, after a brief visit to Finland. The Ukrainian leader is expected to meet with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte,...
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As Sweden wins Eurovision, Russia bombs Ukrainian entry’s home town
Amid the feather dresses, smoke machines, self-playing pianos and more LED lights and sequins than you could shake a stick at, a powerful vocal performance, a plinth and some truly incredible nail...
View ArticleBelarus’ Lukashenko: ‘The only mistake we made’ was not finishing off Ukraine...
“The only mistake” Russia and Belarus made was “that we didn’t resolve this issue in 2014-2015, when Ukraine had no army and wasn’t prepared,” Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko said. In 2014,...
View ArticleRussians shooting at rescuers in flooded areas, Zelenskyy says
Paul Ronzheimer is the deputy editor-in-chief of BILD and a senior journalist reporting for Axel Springer, the parent company of POLITICO. KYIV — Russian forces are shooting at Ukrainian rescuers...
View ArticleUkraine counteroffensive: Kyiv claims gains in Bakhmut
Ukrainian forces advanced between 200 meters and 1.1 kilometers in various areas around the key battleground city of Bakhmut and are now on the offensive, according to military reports. “In the...
View ArticlePutin in crisis: Wagner chief Prigozhin declares war on Russian military...
Vladimir Putin is facing a major military crisis after Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin declared war on Moscow’s own defense ministry, claiming Kremlin officials had killed thousands of his...
View ArticleWagner rebels career toward showdown with Putin as they push to Moscow
Mercenaries from the Wagner Group of embittered warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin — some of them speeding along a highway to Moscow — on Saturday looked set for imminent clashes with troops loyal to President...
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Prigozhin’s Wagner mutiny is over. What now?
Vladimir Putin’s strongman mask is slipping — and Ukraine sees opportunity in the chaos. Warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin’s short-lived mutiny over the weekend exposed Putin’s tenuous grip on the levers of...
View ArticleRussia drops charges over Wagner mutiny, reports say
Russian authorities have closed the mutiny probe into the Wagner Group, run by warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, state-owned media reported Tuesday. “During the investigation of the criminal case initiated...
View ArticleRussia’s General Armageddon disappears, as Kremlin bats away arrest rumors
Sergei Surovikin, Russia’s “General Armageddon,” has vanished from public view after the Wagner Group’s aborted weekend mutiny — amid reports he has been detained over a rumored role in the...
View ArticlePutin’s media machine turns on ‘traitor’ Prigozhin
From national hero to drug-addled, bewigged zero: The Kremlin’s propaganda machine has turned against Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. In a sensational report on state-run Rossiya-1’s “60...
View ArticleRussian general says he was fired after criticizing military leadership,...
A Russian general accused senior military leadership of acting “treasonously” and claimed he was fired for reporting the difficult frontline conditions faced by Moscow’s forces in Ukraine, amid rising...
View ArticlePutin says ‘Wagner does not exist’ after meeting Prigozhin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given his own account of a June 29 meeting with Wagner mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin and his men in the Kremlin after the paramilitary group’s aborted mutiny,...
View ArticleAustralian state cancels 2026 Commonwealth Games over cost blowout
SYDNEY — Australia’s state of Victoria will pull out of hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games due to a cost blowout, Premier Daniel Andrews announced Tuesday. The games, which were supposed to be held...
View ArticleWest African bloc activates standby force for possible use in Niger
The Economic Community of West African States on Thursday ordered the activation of a standby force to possibly use against the military junta that orchestrated a coup in Niger last month, deposing...
View ArticlePoland arrests 2 Russians after Wagner recruitment posters appear in Kraków
Polish authorities have arrested two Russians who distributed propaganda material about the Wagner mercenary group in Warsaw and Kraków, Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński said Monday. Poland’s...
View ArticleRussia’s ‘General Armageddon’ removed from military leadership, under house...
Russia’s General Sergei Surovikin, believed to be an ally of exiled Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been removed from his leadership role in Moscow’s war on Ukraine and is under house arrest,...
View Article‘Daddy is in the building’— Prigozhin resurfaces in Africa video
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has resurfaced in a video allegedly shot in an unnamed country in Africa and posted to a social media account with links to his paramilitary group late Monday. In a post...
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