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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday tweeted a pirate-style image of himself with a black eye patch and dark-red bruises on the best aspect of his face — the results of a jogging accident on the weekend. ...

Who is General Sergei Surovikin? A navy veteran who served within the Soviet Union's in the end doomed warfare with Afghanistan in the course of the Eighties, General Surovikin is notorious for ordering troops to open hearth on pro-democracy protesters in Moscow, when three individuals had been killed in the course of the last days of the Soviet Union in 1991. He went on to steer Russian forces' intervention in the course of the Syrian War in 2017, the place he's accused of complicity within the indiscriminate bombing of opposition fighters and of overseeing chemical weapons assaults, in a marketing campaign thought to have been pivotal in serving to Syria's authorities regain management over many of the nation. Nicknamed "General Armagedd...

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov submitted a letter of resignation on Monday after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned he would get replaced and named his successor. ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Malaysian court docket on Monday dismissed 47 corruption fees towards Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi after prosecutors unexpectedly dropped the fees at a sophisticated stage of his trial. ...

LONDON — British lawmakers headed again to Parliament on Monday after their summer time break. But 1000's of U.Ok. youngsters gained’t be returning to their school rooms this week, as a result of their colleges are prone to collapse from crumbling concrete. ...

STOCKHOLM — The trial opened Monday of a Russian-born Swedish citizen charged with accumulating data for the Russian navy intelligence service GRU for nearly a decade. ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday hailed latest elections as an indication of the nation’s “mature democracy” and a victory over Western adversaries, as he took an oath of workplace following a vote whose credibility was questioned by each Western and African observers. ...

BEIRUT — Hundreds of offended protesters in southern Syria smashed the statue of Syria’s late president on Monday as they they marked the 2015 assassination of a distinguished anti-government Druze chief. ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is having a little bit of enjoyable after a jogging incident over the weekend pressured him to don an eye fixed patch. ...

Kim Jong Un might journey to Russia to satisfy president Vladimir Putin, in accordance with a US official.The North Korean chief might make the journey as early as this month, in accordance with the unnamed supply, with the port metropolis of Vladivostok, close to to the border between the 2 international locations, believed to be a potential assembly level. It comes because the US claims the Kremlin is making an attempt to amass navy tools for its struggle in Ukraine.National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson stated on Monday that Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu had travelled to North Korea's capital of Pyongyang final month.It is believed Mr Shoigu tried to steer North Korea - one of the vital militarised international locations on the planet - to promote ...