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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s most powerful mercenary, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said his Wagner group would fight on in Ukraine if his men got a separate section of the front without having to depend on “clowns” who ran swathes of the Russian armed forces. Celebrating his 62nd birthday on Thursday at a training camp, Prigozhin also confirmed that his men would finally leave the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on June 5 […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s most powerful mercenary, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said his Wagner group would fight on in Ukraine if his men got a separate section of the front without having to depend on “clowns” who ran swathes of the Russian armed forces. Celebrating his 62nd birthday on Thursday at a training camp, Prigozhin also confirmed that his men would finally leave the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on June 5 […]

By Carien du Plessis JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa is mulling its options over an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin should he accept an invitation to a BRICS summit in August, a South African government official said. A member of the ICC, South Africa would theoretically be required to arrest Putin under the warrant issued in March by the court, which accused him of the […]

By Rodrigo Campos and Jorgelina do Rosario NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – A bill backed by debt justice campaigners and civil society groups advocating on behalf of economically distressed countries could alter past and future sovereign debt restructurings covered by New York state law – and Wall Street is watching. These are some key points about the bill. WHAT DOES THE BILL PROPOSE? Senate Bill S4747, the NY Taxpayer and International […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Ukraine discriminated against a same-sex couple and failed to protect their rights, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday. The plaintiffs, Andrii Maimulakhin and Andrii Markiv, had brought the case to the Court in 2014 after they tried unsuccessfully to get married in seven different registry offices. “Their sexual orientation had been the sole basis for the difference in treatment,” the court ruling said, […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s most powerful mercenary, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said his Wagner group would fight on in Ukraine if his men got a separate section of the front without having to depend on “clowns” who ran swathes of the Russian armed forces. Celebrating his 62nd birthday on Thursday at a training camp, Prigozhin also confirmed that his men would finally leave the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on June 5 […]

By Rae Wee and Joice Alves SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar rose on Thursday after a vote of approval from the U.S. House to suspend the debt ceiling, though the greenback drifted from a two-month high as investors trimmed bets the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates this month. The euro fell ahead of euro zone inflation data due at 0900 GMT, which is expected to show price pressure in […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that it had uncovered a U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) plot using previously unknown malware to penetrate specially made backdoor vulnerabilities in Apple phones. The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said that several thousand Apple phones had been infected, including those of domestic Russian subscribers. The Russian spy agency also said telephones belonging to foreign diplomats […]

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) -One of Australia’s most decorated soldiers lost a defamation lawsuit against three newspapers that accused him of involvement in the murder of six Afghans while on deployment, a stunning end to a case that lifted the veil of secrecy over the elite SAS. The newspapers proved four of the six murder accusations they levelled at former SAS corporal Ben Roberts-Smith, but Federal Court Judge Anthony […]