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Some of the released Ukrainians were pictured shortly after they were freed by Russia
Ukraine and Russia in biggest prisoner swap since 2022 invasion
LONDON — Russia and Ukraine have each handed over 390 soldiers and civilians in the biggest prisoner exchange since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022.They both returned 270 servicemen and 120 civilians on the Ukrainian border with Belarus, as part of the only deal agreed in direct talks in Istanbul a week ago.Both sides had agreed to an exchange of 1,000 prisoners and confirmed there would be further swaps in the coming days.Although there have been dozens of smaller-scale exchanges, no other handover has involved as many civilians.The Russian defence ministry said servicemen and civilians, including those captured by Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk border region during Kyiv's offensive in recent months, were among those handed over.They were currently on...
May 23, 2025

Ukraine and Russia in biggest prisoner swap since 2022 invasion

This aerial view shows the 443-foot NCL Salten grounded in the Trondheim Fjord, Norway on Thursday, May 22
Man sleeps through massive container ship running aground on his front lawn
OSLO — A Norwegian man managed to sleep through an enormous container ship running aground on his front lawn.Johan Helberg, who lives in Byneset, on the Trondheim Fjord, was woken by his neighbor on Thursday morning asking if he had noticed a boat outside, TV2 Norway reported.When he looked out his door, he saw a 135-meter-long (443-foot) container ship parked up in his front yard.“If the ship had hit the rocky outcrop right next to it, it would have lifted up and hit the house hard. It only missed by a few meters,” Helberg told TV2.His neighbor, Jostein Jørgensen, who lives about 40 meters (131 feet) from the beach, told TV2 he was woken around 5 a.m. by the sound of a boat approaching.“When I looked out the window, I saw a boat speeding toward the shore,” he told the local TV...
May 23, 2025

Man sleeps through massive container ship running aground on his front lawn

Daily Telegraph paper on a stand
Daily Telegraph to be sold to US firm RedBird Capital
LONDON — American buyout firm RedBird has agreed a deal to take control of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph after a two-year ownership vacuum.RedBird Capital will buy the stake owned by UAE's Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Sultan al-Nahyan who had bankrolled an earlier bid.That bid was rejected by the previous government, which passed a law preventing foreign governments owning British newspapers or news magazines.The current proposed deal will need regulatory approval.Both Telegraph titles and the Spectator magazine were put up for auction by Lloyds Bank, who seized them from the Barclay family for non-payment of outstanding debts.In a bold but ultimately unsuccessful move, a consortium of RedBird and Sheikh Mansour's IMI paid off the Barclay brothers' debts in full hoping to...
May 23, 2025

Daily Telegraph to be sold to US firm RedBird Capital

Diego Garcia, the largest island in the archipelago, was separated from Mauritius along with the rest of the Chagos Islands in 1965 and now houses a US military base
UK plan to transfer Chagos Islands set to go ahead despite last-minute legal action
LONDON — The British government’s plans to hand control of the strategically significant Chagos Islands to Mauritius are set to be signed off on Thursday, after an 11th-hour legal injunction failed to stop an effort that has been intensely controversial in both the United Kingdom and the United States.Prime Minister Keir Starmer intends to return the islands to the African country, while maintaining control of the US-UK Diego Garcia military base, and the deal is expected be finalized on Thursday.It comes after a High Court judge briefly blocked the move in a ruling made at 2 a.m. local time (9 p.m. ET on Wednesday). The deal was challenged by Bernadette Dugasse and Bertrice Pompe, Chagossian women living in Britain who opposed the deal on human rights grounds.The UK’s negotiations...
May 22, 2025

UK plan to transfer Chagos Islands set to go ahead despite last-minute legal action

Police officers cordon off the area outside The American School of Madrid shortly after the former senior aide to ex-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych was shot
Ukrainian ex-politician shot dead outside Madrid’s American school
MADRID — Former Ukrainian politician Andriy Portnov, who worked as a senior aide to pro-Russian former President Viktor Yanukovych, has been shot dead just outside the Spanish capital Madrid, a Spanish national police source told CNN.Portnov, 51, was shot several times as he was getting into a car around 9:15 a.m. local time (3:15 a.m. ET), the police source said. Various assailants shot him in the back and the head, and later fled into a wooded area, the source said.The shooting took place outside The American School of Madrid, located in Pozuelo de Alaracon, an affluent suburb just west of Madrid. It has just over 1,000 students from the United States, Spain and several dozen other countries.The school sent out various urgent messages to parents following the incident, which took place...
May 21, 2025

Ukrainian ex-politician shot dead outside Madrid’s American school

Russian ministry of defence video showed the training ground shortly before the missile strike
Six Ukrainian soldiers killed in Russian strike on training exercise
KYIV — A Russian missile strike on a training exercise in Ukraine's Sumy border region has killed six servicemen and wounded more than 10 others, says Ukraine's National Guard.Russia's defense ministry had earlier released a video purporting to show an Iskander missile attack on a training camp, and state news agency Tass said up to 70 people had died.The Sumy region has come under repeated bombardment, and Ukraine launched a months-long occupation of part of Russia's neighboring Kursk region from there.The Ukrainian military said the aim of the offensive had been to help create a buffer zone to protect Sumy, but some have complained of the scale of military losses.Separately, the Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin had visited officials in Kursk the previous day, in...
May 21, 2025

Six Ukrainian soldiers killed in Russian strike on training exercise

Police officers search buildings following the ban of the Reichsbürger group Kingdom of Germany in Gera, Germany, Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Germany arrests five teenagers over alleged right-wing extremist plot and attacks
BERLIN — German police on Wednesday arrested five teenagers linked to a right-wing extremist group that allegedly intended to carry out attacks on migrants and political opponents.The early morning arrests across several states in Germany followed raids on 13 properties associated with the self-styled "The Last Wave of Defense", federal prosecutors said in a statement.Four of those arrested — identified only as Benjamin H, Ben-Maxim H, Lenny M and Jason R, in line with German privacy rules — are suspected of membership of a domestic terror organization. The fifth, Jerome M, is accused of supporting the group.Two of the individuals are also accused of attempted murder and aggravated arson. All five are between the ages of 14 and 18.Prosecutors said they are also...
May 21, 2025

Germany arrests five teenagers over alleged right-wing extremist plot and attacks

Police and forensic investigators on the scene following an attack in the western city of Bielefeld, 18 May, 2025
German police arrest suspect in Bielefeld stabbing attack that injured five people
BERLIN — A suspect who allegedly attacked and injured five people outside a bar in the western German city of Bielefeld has been arrested after an almost two-day search, German media reported."The detailed work paid off and we were able to arrest the surprised perpetrator," the state interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Herbert Reul, told dpa news agency after a man was arrested late on Monday evening in the town of Heiligenhaus near Düsseldorf.According to police, the suspect is a 35-year-old Syrian living in Germany.Early on Sunday, five men between 22 and 27 — football fans celebrating their team, Arminia Bielefeld, securing the league title in the German third division — were attacked by a suspect wielding a sharp object outside a bar in downtown Bielefeld.Four...
May 20, 2025

German police arrest suspect in Bielefeld stabbing attack that injured five people

Oil tanker (file photo)
Russia releases Greek-owned oil tanker after brief detention near Estonia
TALLINN — Russia has released a Greek-owned oil tanker which was seized on Sunday in Russian waters after leaving a port in Estonia, the Estonian public broadcaster ERR reported.The Liberian-flagged Green Admire is now sailing in the Baltic Sea and is headed for the Dutch port of Rotterdam, according to ERR and the LSEG ship tracking data service.The tanker was seized by Russian authorities after departing from the Estonian port of Sillamäe and using a designated navigation channel that crosses Russian waters, Estonia's foreign ministry said on Sunday.Estonia's Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said that Russia's action against the Green Admire was likely a response to the Estonian navy's campaign against Russia's so-called "shadow fleet", in which it is...
May 20, 2025

Russia releases Greek-owned oil tanker after brief detention near Estonia

A house outside of Kyiv that was heavily damaged by a Russian drone strike overnight
Russia launches largest drone attack against Ukraine ahead of expected Trump-Putin call
KYIV — Russia battered Ukraine overnight with its largest drone attack since the war began, Ukraine’s military said Sunday, ahead of an expected phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on ending hostilities.Russia launched 273 Shahed drones in one night, the Ukrainian Air Force said, predominantly targeting the central Kyiv region, where they killed a 28-year-old woman and wounded three others including a 4-year-old child, according to the region’s governor.The barrage came as Trump said he would speak to Putin by phone on Monday.The Russian leader has previously ignored a proposal from Washington and Kyiv for a 30-day ceasefire and last week snubbed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call to meet face-to-face for talks in...
May 19, 2025

Russia launches largest drone attack against Ukraine ahead of expected Trump-Putin call

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