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Donald Trump claims son repaid Russian boxing chief Umar Kremlev for Bahamas wedding expenses

U.S. President Donald Trump said his son has repaid Umar Kremlev, head of the International Boxing Association, who covered ...
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Ukraine’s ‘Operation Vivaldi’ pushed Russian forces back around Lyman in the Donbas. Now both armies are massing troops for the next battles farther south.

Andriy Biletsky, commander of Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps, said this week that his units are successfully carrying out Operation “Vivaldi.” The first of its four phases, he said, is nearing completion: ...
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Russian guided bombs hit apartment building in northeastern Ukraine, killing two city council employees

Russian forces struck a multistory apartment building in Sumy with guided aerial bombs, killing two people, Oleh Hryhorov, the head of the Sumy regional administration, said.
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‘Who washes Putin’s underpants?’ Pet Shop Boys revisit Navalny’s poisoning in a new song released as Russia votes in parliamentary elections.

The British pop group Pet Shop Boys has released a new song, “A Top Secret Washing Machine,” on its YouTube channel. The track was timed to coincide with Russia’s State Duma elections.
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Saudi Aramco tells European customers they won’t receive October crude under long-term contracts after drone attack shuts down key pipeline

Saudi Arabia’s state oil company, Saudi Aramco, has told European customers that they will receive no oil in October under their long-term contracts because of an attack on a key pipeline running ...
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Macron orders France to prepare its critical infrastructure for drone and cyberattacks amid a growing ‘Russian hybrid threat’

French President Emmanuel Macron said he has ordered his government to draw up a plan to protect critical infrastructure — including defense industry sites — from drone attacks and cyberattacks ...
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Trump signs late Senator Lindsey Graham’s ‘sanctions from hell’ law against Russia

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed into law a new sanctions law against Russia — the “sanctions from hell,” as the American press calls them — according to a statement on the White House website.
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Moscow’s electronic voting system reportedly checks users for active VPNs. The check doesn’t block voting, and the site’s code doesn’t reveal why the data is collected.

Moscow’s online voting system checks whether a voter is using a VPN, according to programmer Pyotr Zhizhin, who analyzed and documented in detail the scheme used to falsify electronic voting in the ...
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Reuters: Germany’s AfD party and Kremlin envoy prepare for talks on restarting Russian gas supplies

Leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany party have begun preparing for talks on resuming Russian gas deliveries to Germany, Reuters reported, citing two sources.
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Russian officials trying to move assets abroad and open foreign bank accounts amid mobilization rumors, Bloomberg reports

Amid rumors of a new mobilization, senior Russian officials have spent recent months trying to open accounts at foreign banks ...
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Russia’s Justice Ministry labels filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev a ‘foreign agent.’ At Cannes, where his new film took the Grand Prix, he had called on Putin to stop the war.

Russia’s Justice Ministry has added film director Andrei Zvyagintsev to its register of “foreign agents.” The ministry said Zvyagintsev worked with other “foreign agents a ...
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Russian pro-peace parliamentary candidate Yulia Kuznetsova resurfaces after going missing, saying a ‘difficult conversation’ left her needing psychological and medical help

Yulia Kuznetsova, a State Duma candidate from the Greens party who disappeared a day earlier after a meeting with voters, has posted a video.