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Joe Biden has said he was not surprised by the death and that not much happened in Russia that Putin was not behind. Followers of Prigozhin laid flowers, messages and poetry at his grave on Wednesday, hailing him as a fearless warrior.

drone attack on Russian soil in the 18 months of fighting in Ukraine. Drones hit an airport in the western Pskov region and were shot down over the regions of Oryol, Bryansk, Ryazan and Kaluga. The strike in Pskov started a massive fire and four Il-78 transport aircraft were damaged, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials. Pskov regional Gov. Mikhail Vedernikov ordered all flights to and from the Pskov airport canceled Wednesday, citing the need to assess the damage during daylight. Footage and images posted on social media overnight showed smoke billowing over the city of Pskov, and a large blaze.

AFP. -Bongo's son and close adviser Noureddin Bongo Valentin, his chief of staff Ian Ghislain Ngoulou as well as his deputy, two other presidential advisers and the two top officials in the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) "have been arrested,", according to the military official statement -They are accused of treason, embezzlement, corruption and falsifying the president's signature, among other allegations, the statement added -A country of just 2.3 million people, Gabon has been ruled by the Bongo family for more than 55 out of its 63 years since independence from France in 1960 -Notably, another group of mutinous soldiers attempted a coup in January 2019, while Bongo was in Morocco recovering from a stroke, but was quickly overpowered. -Paris maintains a military presence in many of its former territories -- including Gabon where it has 370 soldiers permanently deployed, some in the capital Libreville, according to the French defence ministry website -According to reports, Omar Bongo was one of France's closest allies in the post-colonial era and his son has long been a regular in Paris, where his family owns an extensive real estate portfolio that is being investigated by anti-corruption magistrates.

The China fund’s primary manager, Ruth Chambers, has led the fund for the last five years, having joined Liontrust in its acquisition of Neptune in 2019.

U.S. officials say the FBI and its partners in Europe infiltrated and seized control of a major malware network that was used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware attacks

Kremlin said on Wednesday that the investigation into the plane crash which killed mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and nine others last week included the possibility that it was caused deliberately. «It is obvious that different versions are being considered, including the version — you know what we are talking about — let's say, a deliberate atrocity,» Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Peskov also said that the probe into the plane crash was a Russian investigation, and that there could be no question of an international investigation.

Also Read: ‘Invite to African Union made G20 more inclusive’ The G20, consisting of 19 individual nations (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Türkiye, United Kingdom, and the United States) along with the European Union, collectively forms a prominent international assembly. As per the central government website on the G20 Summit, the G20 was upgraded to the level of heads of state, and government in the wake of the global economic and financial crisis of 2007, and, in 2009, was designated the “premier forum for international economic cooperation". The G20 Presidency oversees the G20 agenda over a span of one year and takes on the role of hosting the Summit.

confirmed the presence of Sulphur (S) on the lunar surface near the south pole. Not just Sulphur, the Pragyan rover has also detected the presence of Aluminium, Calcium, Ferrous (Iron), Chromium, Titanium, Manganese, Silicon and Oxygen, the space agency said.

The Russian currency has stabilized after dipping below 100 rubles to the U.S. dollar — but that doesn't mean the pressure is off Russia's economy

Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Pathaan will release in Japan on 1 September. When released in India this January, it had made over Rs. 543 crore in domestic box office collections, emerging as the highest grossing original Hindi film till date.

crisis hotline for the first time sent a message between the world's superpowers. Communicated by Washington to Moscow, the message dated August 30, 1963 was more about testing every letter of the English keyboard than about addressing immediate conflict: «THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890.» But since then, the famed hotline has worked to manage tensions — or to send warnings — between Washington and Moscow, whose relations have plunged to new lows over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The hotline became reality in the wake of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, with president John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agreeing that the world came too close to nuclear war. Never a literal telephone as depicted in movies, the hotline was originally a clunky telegraph machine with cables under the Atlantic and Europe that each side would test every hour. The Pentagon, which managed US communications, would often send trivia such as baseball scores while the Kremlin preferred excerpts from classic Russian literature, Howard Patrick, a linguist who helped operate the first machine, said in a 2014 interview with the Pioneer Press in Minnesota. He said there was shock when the hotline was first put to actual use — a message from the United States to officially inform the Soviets that Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas. The tool's first use to avert conflict took place in 1967 during the Six-Day War in the Middle East.

The figures by fund manager Janus Henderson estimated that 88% of companies globally had either increased their dividends or held them steady in Q2, resulting in $568.1 billion worth of worldwide payouts since the start of the year. The fastest growth came in Europe, where a number of countries such Italy and Spain have introduced or are looking at windfall taxes on bumper profits made by banks and energy firms on the back of rising interest rates and energy prices. Dividends were up nearly 10% to $184.5 billion. That did not including Britain, where the quarterly total dropped to $30.7 billion from last year's $34.9 billion, when oil and gas firms saw a leap in payments after Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent commodity prices surging. This time around, the surge in global interest rates meant banks contributed half the world's dividend growth and drove a quarter of Europe's increase.

Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, experienced a drop below $26,000 in the past day, but quickly recovered above, settling around $26,070. 

Russia has informed Brazil's aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer jet that killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin under international rules «at the moment», the Brazilian agency told Reuters on Tuesday. Prigozhin, two top lieutenants of his Wagner Group and four bodyguards were among 10 people who died when the Embraer Legacy 600 crashed north of Moscow last week. He died two months to the day after staging a brief mutiny against the Russian defense establishment that posed the biggest challenge to President Vladimir Putin's rule since he rose to power in 1999. Brazil's Center for Research and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (CENIPA), in the interests of improving aviation safety, had said it would join a Russian-led investigation if it were invited and the probe held under international rules. Russia's aviation authority was not obligated to say yes to CENIPA, but some former investigators said it should, as the U.S. and other Western governments suspect the Kremlin of being behind the Aug.

Russian banks will have the opportunity to question the Central Bank on its digital ruble pilot next month.

U.S. officials say the FBI and its partners in Europe infiltrated and seized control of a major malware network that was used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware attacks

Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange has removed Banco de Venezuela as a payment option in its peer-to-peer services in the country.

TikTok, Reddit, Pinterest and X, formerly Twitter. Meta said the operation, known in the security community as “Spamouflage," dated back to 2019 and was linked to individuals associated with Chinese law enforcement. Meta said the China network was pushing positive commentary about the country as well as criticism of the U.S.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, ending a tumultuous journey from St. Petersburg street thug to Kremlin-financed mercenary leader, following a suspicious plane crash two months after his brief mutiny that challenged the authority of President Vladimir Putin.

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mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash last week, a farewell service was held for him, a report by news agency AP said on Tuesday citing Wagner spokespeople’s statement. Those who wish to bid their farewell to the 62-year-old mercenary leader should go to the Porokhovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg, his hometown, the report said citing the statement.