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Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to the family of Yevgeny Prigozhin on Thursday, breaking his silence after the mercenary leader's plane crashed with no survivors two months after he led a mutiny against army chiefs. Putin's comments, which suggested he harboured decidedly mixed feelings about Wagner's mercenary boss, were the most definitive yet on Prigozhin's fate. Before he spoke, the only official statement had come from the aviation authority which said Prigozhin had been on board the downed plane. Russian investigators have opened a probe into what happened, but have not yet said what they suspect caused the plane to suddenly fall from the sky northwest of Moscow on Wednesday evening. Nor have they officially confirmed the identities of the 10 bodies recovered from the wreckage. U.S.

BRICS group of countries, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has agreed to admit Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE as new members. Concerns of BRICS gradually turning into an anti-West club have increased ever since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its “no-limits" partnership with China, which had been especially keen to expand membership. The group’s potential influence over global geopolitics has gone up.

Reuters. Putin is famously known as the leader who does not, would not forgive. In a report AFP recollected that when in 2018 Putin was asked if he was able to forgive people's mistakes, Vladimir Putin thought for a split second.

MOSCOW : Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences on Thursday to the family of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin after his presumed death in a plane crash the day before and praised him as a "talented businessman". Crash investigators have still to conclusively identify the remains of the 10 people believed to have died in Wednesday's crash northwest of Moscow, and Putin said the examination would take time.

Turkey’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by an aggressive 7.5 percentage points, in a new sign of a return to more traditional economic policies

Iran and Saudi Arabia are among six nations that have been invited to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies, along with the United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Egypt and Ethiopia

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Countless Ukrainian children have lost their mothers and fathers since the onset of the Russian invasion. Tens of thousands more have had their lives upended, forced to leave their homes, schools, friendships and cherished belongings behind as the Russian military swept across a large part of the country.

Merriam Webster, Psy Op stands for military operations usually aimed at influencing the enemy's state of mind through noncombative means Elon Musk's response came after a X user posted, "That didn't take too long." See the post here Elon Musk is known to never shy away from commenting on worldly controversial events, and his remark on the Wagner chief's death is no surprise either. Elon Musk's comments seem to reiterate what experts and western think tanks have opinied that the ‘accident’ was an assassination to avenge a mutiny that challenged President Vladimir Putin’s authority. Russia's Vladimir Putin has also remained silent as speculation swirled.

Norway will become the third country to donate F-16 fighter jets to Kyiv to bolster its Soviet-era air force, three Norwegian media reported Thursday, without citing any sources. Neither the number of planes nor the delivery date were announced, as Ukraine pursues a grinding counteroffensive against Russian forces in the east. Contacted by AFP, a spokeswoman for Norway's defence minister could «neither confirm nor deny» the media reports. The reports came as Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Thursday, which was also Ukraine's Independence Day. During his visit, Norway announced it would supply Kyiv with Iris-T anti-air missiles, demining equipment, and a 1.5 billion kroner ($141 million) aid package for the purchase of gas and electricity this winter. But there has been no official announcement concerning F-16s.

ChatGPT. “I am the only person on this stage who isn’t bought and paid for," Ramaswamy hit back. Toward the end of the debate, he made the case for a new generation of leaders.

Ukrainian police officers are receiving crypto crime investigation training from EU officials, with the nation continuing to streamline its crypto and blockchain policy with Brussels.

Also read: Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin death rumours: How World is reacting to Russian mercenary chief possible demise Prigozhin was convicted of robbery and assault in 1981, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. When he got out, he opened a restaurant business in St. Petersburg in the 1990s.

The Victorian government has blamed the Commonwealth Games fiasco on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and 12 interest rate rises in 14 months as Premier Daniel Andrews declined to attend a federal inquiry into the matter.

Also read: Chandrayaan-3 Moon Landing Successful | LIVE Updates: NASA congratulates ISRO, says ‘glad to be partner in the mission' The world has responded to this development with a mix of speculation and commentary: President Joe Biden expressed a cautious response to the news, stating that he wasn't surprised with the news. Biden said, “I don’t know for a fact what happened, but I’m not surprised." He added, “There’s not much that happens in Russia that Putin’s not behind.

Check the latest updates hereBRICS countries have economies vastly different in scale and governments with often divergent foreign policy goals, a complicating factor for a bloc whose consensus decision-making model gives each member a de facto veto.Bloc heavyweight China has long called for an expansion of BRICS as a means of fostering a multipolar world order to challenge Western dominance."The world ... has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation," China's President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday.

Joe Biden Wednesday said he was not surprised by reports that Russian Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin may have died in a plane crash. Biden said not much happens in the country that President Vladimir Putin is not behind, Reuters reported.

Sergei Surovikin, nicknamed "General Armageddon", as head of the air force after he vanished from public view during a Wagner mercenary mutiny against the top army brass, two Russian news outlets reported on Wednesday. A recipient of Russia's top military award, Surovikin is the most senior Russian military figure to lose his job over the June 23-34 mutiny, which President Vladimir Putin said could have tipped Russia into civil war. Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who spearheaded the revolt, remains free and on Monday posted a video address which he suggested was shot in Africa. The two men Prigozhin had wanted to topple — Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, chief of general staff — remain in their posts. Once commander of Russia's overall war effort in Ukraine when he was lauded by Russian and Western military experts as one of its most effective operators, Surovikin has not yet been publicly fired. However, Russian state news agency RIA cited an unnamed but «informed» source as saying: «Ex-chief of the Russian Air and Space Forces Sergei Surovikin has now been relieved of his post, while Colonel-General Viktor Afzalov, head of the main staff of the Air Force, is temporarily acting as commander-in-chief of the Air Force».

India is hopeful of a «good outcome document» and consensus among G-20 members on the five key areas of trade and investment at the two-day trade ministers' meet beginning Thursday. Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said that the members are looking at reaching a consensus on a «Jaipur call for action». India has identified five priority issues-growth and prosperity, resilient global value chains, MSMEs, logistics, and World Trade Organization (WTO) reform-under its G-20 presidency from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2023. «We have been able to come up with significant consensus amongst the member countries invoking a Jaipur call for action,» he said, adding that it will help promote industry, MSME sector, upgrade the global trade help desk, and bridge information gaps for MSMEs to help them expand their business and trade. Goyal was addressing the media at the G-20 trade and investment ministers' meeting in Jaipur on Wednesday. He said the members have deliberated on formulating high-level principles for digitalisation of trade and trade facilitation. «We are confident that tomorrow and day after ministerial meetings will come up with a concrete actionable outcome agenda, which will help the world withstand any future shocks,» he said. On WTO reforms, he said India wants the dispute settlement mechanism of the multilateral trade watchdog to work smoothly.Russia-Ukraine conflict shadow On the Ukraine-Russia conflict casting a shadow on the G-20 trade and investment track outcome, he said that there are realities on which consensus is not possible.

ICRA projected its growth at 8.5% in the three months to 30 June, while SBI has pegged the figure at 8.3%. Both exceed the Reserve Bank of India’s 8% forecast by a respectable margin. This is encouraging, considering the uncertainties that loom globally as the Ukraine war shows no sign of ending.

Brics this week to air their grievances against Western powers, present themselves as defenders of developing economies and set out the case for an alternative international order. Russian President Vladimir Putin, addressing the South African summit by video, accused the West of provoking everything from the war in Ukraine and global inflation to hunger in the world’s most vulnerable countries by hampering Russian grain and fertilizer sales through sanctions.