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The businessman behind the private military company has been accused of “rebellion” against Moscow Evgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group private military company, has been accused by the government of staging an armed insurrection. The charges were brought late Friday night after Prigozhin accused Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and General Valery Gerasimov, the chair of the Russian general staff, of serious crimes. Prigozhin claimed to have ordered troops loyal to him to move towards Rostov-on-Don, a major city in southern Russia. Security measures were also reportedly beefed up in Moscow. 24 June 2023 Source: RT

“Prigozhin’s statements and actions effectively constitute calls for an armed civil conflict on Russian territory,” the press office said The statements and actions of Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin effectively constitute calls for beginning of and armed civil conflict, Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) press office said. “Prigozhin’s statements and actions effectively constitute calls for an armed civil conflict on Russian territory and a stab in the back of Russian servicemen fighting with pro-Nazi Ukrainian forces,” the press office said. “We call on the PMC fighter not to commit irreparable mistakes, to stop any force actions against the Russian people,…

Israeli settlers are accompanied by occupation troops as they target Palestinians with live bullets and tear gas canisters. Dozens of Palestinians have been injured as illegal Israeli settlers continue to wreak havoc across the occupied West Bank, protected by Israeli occupation forces. According to Palestine’s official WAFA news agency on Friday, one Palestinian was shot and many others suffocated as IOF-backed settlers attempted to invade the city of Dayr Dibwan, east of Ramallah. The agency reported that the settlers “set fire at the [Dayr Dibwan’s] entrance, but local youths, who were on alert, courageously confronted them, forcing them to retreat.” The casualties…

Earlier, Professor Blair Thornton from the University of Southampton said that the pressure on the Titan sub as it collapsed was comparable to the Eiffel Tower falling on it The passengers of the Titan submersible, whose wreckage was found in the North Atlantic on Thursday, died painlessly, CNN reported on Friday citing experts. “The entire thing would have collapsed before the individuals inside would even realize that there was a problem,” Aileen Maria Marty, professor at Florida International University, told CNN. “Ultimately, among the many ways in which we can pass, that’s painless,” she added. According to experts quoted by CNN, it…

In March 2014, Crimea and Sevastopol held a referendum on reunification with Russia. Almost 97% of voters supported the regions’ accession to the Russian Federation Many Russian speakers in Crimea supported the idea of the peninsula joining Russia in 2014, and some countries in Europe understood that, former US President Barack Obama told CNN. “Ukraine of that time was not the Ukraine that we’re talking about today, <…> Crimea was full of a lot of Russian speakers and there was some sympathy to the views that Russia was representing. <…> Part of what happened was, both myself and also [German Chancellor…

A Wall Street Journal report that called the country a “hub” for alleged saboteurs is “completely untrue,” according to Warsaw A Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report on Poland’s alleged role in the Nord Stream gas pipelines blasts last September is “completely untrue,” the Polish National Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement to the country’s daily Rzeczpospolita on Thursday. Citing German investigators, the US media outlet claimed in early June that the EU nation supposedly served as an operational base for the suspects that might be behind the Russian natural gas pipeline sabotage. A Polish source familiar with the investigation told the paper…

Ankara wants Stockholm to fully enforce new anti-terrorism legislation, a senior official has said Türkiye is still waiting for Sweden to crack down on groups it considers terrorists, before Ankara approves Stockholm’s bid to join NATO, parliament speaker Numan Kurtulmus said on Wednesday. Speaking during a broadcast on TRT, Kurtulmus stated that Türkiye is “waiting for concrete steps” from Sweden, and noted a recently introduced anti-terrorism law which makes it illegal to provide support to outlawed groups in the EU country. “I would like to express that we find this positive, but in Türkiye, we would like to see its implementation,” the speaker…

Foreign and Expatriates Ministry on Thursday strongly condemned the barbaric attacks of the Israeli occupation forces against Syrian citizens in the occupied Golan, who adhere to their Syrian identity and land. “The criminal Israeli occupation forces bringing in large reinforcements with the aim of terrorizing the Syrian People, who gathered in the village of Mas’ada in the occupied Syrian Golan, in addition to their brutal attacks that led to the injury of a hundred of people and the arrest of others stress that terrorism was and still is chronic approach for the occupation authorities,” the Ministry said in a statement.…

Neutral mediators can help Moscow and Kiev formulate how to reach a truce, the Brazilian president has said Russia and Ukraine both need to compromise to achieve peace, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday, as he reiterated his government’s position on the armed conflict. Mediation would be best coming from parties not involved in the fighting, he explained. “The two parties both need to get something. Only the Russians and the Ukrainians know what they need to reach peace,” the Brazilian leader said during a press conference in Rome. He noted that the EU’s capacity for mediation…

An FBI document seen by some lawmakers contains corruption allegations against President Biden and his son Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley have urged the FBI to investigate accusations that US President Joe Biden and his son accepted bribes from a Ukrainian gas executive. They also called on the bureau to release an unredacted version of a government document outlining the claims. In a letter sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday, the two senior lawmakers demanded action on the bribery allegations, which were first raised by a whistleblower in May, claiming federal officials have worked to keep information under…