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File photo of Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Could Wagner boss Prigozhin replace Putin as Russia’s next president?
MOSCOW — Yevgeny Prigozhin knows how to cause a stir.Hitting the headlines almost daily for his spicy comments about the Ukraine war, the notorious leader of Russia’s Wagner Group is allegedly eyeing up political power.Some even suggest he wants to become president.“Prigozhin is a deeply disreputable character,” Professor Mark Galeotti, an analyst of Russian politics, told Euronews. “This is a man who has risen by doing whatever Putin and the Kremlin want — and obviously doing very well for himself in the process.”Even before he sent his mercenary army into some of Ukraine’s grittiest battles, Prigozhin ran a troll farm meddling in US elections — landing him in hot water with the FBI — and used his private militia fighters for shady business across the African...
April 18, 2023

Could Wagner boss Prigozhin replace Putin as Russia’s next president?

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Moscow court denies appeal by jailed WSJ reporter
MOSCOW — A Russian court has rejected the appeal of US journalist Evan Gershkovich against his pre-trial detention.He appeared in court in Moscow on Tuesday - the first time he had been seen in public for weeks.He was arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg while working for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) newspaper and charged with spying.Gershkovich stood with folded arms in a bullet-proof glass enclosure, wearing jeans and a blue checked shirt.He gave a quick smile while standing calmly, but did not say anything to the reporters present.It is the first time Gershkovich has been seen since his detention.Along with his lawyer, US ambassador to Moscow Lynne Tracy was also present in the courtroom.This is the same court where Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was just convicted of treason...
April 18, 2023

Moscow court denies appeal by jailed WSJ reporter

Vladimir Putin with Col Gen Mikhail Teplinsky (left) and Col Gen Oleg Makarevich (right)
Putin rallies his troops with 2nd Ukraine visit in two months
KYIV — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday visited command posts of the Kremlin’s forces fighting in Ukraine in an apparent effort to rally his troops as the war approaches its 14th month and Kyiv readies a possible counteroffensive with Western-supplied weapons, the Associated Press reported.A video released by the Kremlin and broadcast by Russian state television showed Putin arriving by helicopter at the command post for Russian forces in the southern Kherson region and afterward flying to the headquarters of the Russian National Guard of the eastern Luhansk region.Dressed in a dark suit, and in an apparent demonstration of authority, Putin appeared to chair the meetings with his military top brass. It was his second trip in two months to the Russian-occupied territories in...
April 18, 2023

Putin rallies his troops with 2nd Ukraine visit in two months

Striking workers belonging to the LO trade union, in Oslo, on Monday. — courtesy LO trade union
Thousands of workers strike in Norway demanding higher pay
OSLO — Tens of thousands of workers in Norway began a strike on Monday, after negotiations between the country’s two main unions and employers’ representatives broke down late last night.Transport, hotel and construction sectors in the Nordic nation are all impacted by the strikes, with more than 22,000 workers from the main trade union confederation LO taking part, alongside around 1,500 from a smaller union.“It is regrettable that we have to go on strike. We are not doing it lightly,” said LO leader Peggy Hessen, after the weekend’s unsuccessful mediation.“LO demanded increased purchasing power for all its members and a boost for the low-paid,” she said in a statement. “[The employers’ representative] has chosen to reject our demands, and thus sends the country into...
April 17, 2023

Thousands of workers strike in Norway demanding higher pay

Italian police have seized about 70 packages containing almost 2 tons of cocaine floating off eastern Sicily. — courtesy Guardia di Finanza
Italian authorities seize ‘record’ cocaine drugs haul in Mediterranean
ROME — Italian authorities found almost two tons of cocaine floating at sea off the island of Sicily in what the Guardia di Finanza — the country’s tax and customs police — called a “record” seizure on Monday.The drugs were stored in some 70 waterproof packages which can be seen floating in the sea in pictures shared by authorities.Every package was carefully sealed and kept together by fishing nets, and also containing a luminous device which authorities said allowed the illegal parcels to be tracked.The packages were first spotted by authorities doing routine checks. Italian police said that they were likely dropped by a cargo ship, and intended to be recovered later and brought to land.The two tons of cocaine contained in the packages, bundled in more than 1,600 individual...
April 17, 2023

Italian authorities seize ‘record’ cocaine drugs haul in Mediterranean

Vladimir Kara-Murza pictured during a hearing in October 2022
Russian opposition figure jailed for 25 years for criticizing Ukraine war
MOSCOW — Opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza has been sentenced to 25 years in jail in Russia for charges linked to his criticism of the war in Ukraine.He was found guilty of treason, spreading "false" information about the Russian army and being affiliated with an "undesirable organization".The Russian-British former journalist and politician is the latest of several Putin opponents to have been arrested or forced to flee Russia.He has denied all of the charges.Last week, he said in a statement: "I subscribe to every word that I have said ... Not only do I not repent any of this, I am proud of it.""I know that the day will come when the darkness engulfing our country will clear," he added in remarks posted online. "Our society will open...
April 17, 2023

Russian opposition figure jailed for 25 years for criticizing Ukraine war

A mock lever to shut down the Emsland nuclear power plant is pictured in front of the power plant in Lingen, Germany, Saturday. — courtesy Lars Klemmer/ dpa
Climate activists in Germany rejoice at wind-down of the last nuclear plants
BERLIN — Anti-nuclear campaigners in Germany celebrated in Munich on Saturday as the country began winding down its three remaining nuclear power plants as part of a long-planned transition toward renewable energy.As energy prices spiked last year due to the war in Ukraine, some members of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government got cold feet about closing the nuclear plants as planned on Dec. 31 last year.In a compromise, Scholz agreed to a one-time extension of the deadline but insisted that the final countdown would happen on April 15.Munich’s mayor, Dieter Reite, supported the delay but admitted on Saturday that he was pleased with this weekend’s shutdown.“The future isn’t named nuclear power. The future is named renewable energies. That will be our future. Since 2008,...
April 16, 2023

Climate activists in Germany rejoice at wind-down of the last nuclear plants

A local resident looks at his home, damaged by a Russian rocket attack in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday. — courtesy AP
Rescue crews in Sloviansk work through the rubble as death toll rises
KYIV — Rescue operations continued on Saturday afternoon in Ukraine’s eastern city of Sloviansk following a Russian missile strike on a five-story residential building on Friday that killed at least 11 people, including a toddler, and injured 21 others.In the wake of Friday’s deadly attack, Ukraine’s air force said the country would soon have weapons that could prevent such attacks, in reference to the long sought-after Patriot air defense which is expected to arrive sometime after Easter, according to Ukrainian air force spokesperson, Yuriy Ihnat.On Saturday, President Zelensky signed decrees introducing two further sanctions lists against around 700 Russian and Belarusian businesses and citizens, including Russian athletes.Ksenia Shoigu, the youngest daughter of Russian Defense...
April 16, 2023

Rescue crews in Sloviansk work through the rubble as death toll rises

Firefighters on a rescue mission as they look for potential victims after Russian rocket attack in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday.
Eight dead, including a toddler, after Russian attacks in Sloviansk
KYIV — Russian shelling of a residential building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, Ukraine has killed at least eight people and injured 21 others.Among the victims was a toddler who died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital after he was pulled out of the rubble.The governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, reported that seven Russian S-300 missiles had been fired at Sloviansk on Friday.Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky offered his condolences to the families of the victims and said that “not a single hour of this week before Easter has gone by without Russian murders and terror.”“Rescue operations are under way in Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast. Another terrorist attack. S-300 missiles fired at residential areas, at ordinary civilian buildings,” Zelensky...
April 15, 2023

Eight dead, including a toddler, after Russian attacks in Sloviansk

File photo of Constitutional Council.
President Macron signs pension reform bill into law overnight
PARIS — France’s President Emmanuel Macron has promulgated his pension reform into law which includes raising the retirement age to 64 after the Constitutional Council on Friday approved the controversial plan despite months of mass protests that have damaged his leadership.The Council’s decision dismayed and enraged critics of the pension plan. Hundreds of union activists and others gathered peacefully in Paris Friday evening before some groups broke off in marches toward the historic Bastille plaza and beyond, setting fires to garbage bins and scooters as police fired tear gas or pushed them back.There were also improvised demonstrations and riots in the cities of Marseille, Lyon, Nantes and Rennes, in the northwest of the country, where a police station was stormed and burnt...
April 15, 2023

President Macron signs pension reform bill into law overnight

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