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Wagner Group: What to know about Russian paramilitary group in Ukraine

After a report indicated the Russian-backed Wagner Group deployed more than 400 mercenaries to Kyiv with the mission of assassinating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the private military company is receiving renewed attention from its past atrocities carried out at the behest of the Kremlin. from FOX News : World https://ift.tt/EM5FjQx via IFTTT

Ukraine invasion: Russian conscripts reportedly forced to sign military contracts, losing contact with family

Parents of Russian conscripts who say they've lost communications with their loved ones are pleading with Kremlin officials for answers as to where family members have been sent amid concerns they have been forced to sign contracts to fight as part of President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, according to the report. from FOX News : World https://ift.tt/5hXsxJl via IFTTT

Russia sanctioned after Putin recognizes separatist provinces' independence, says Ukraine part of Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Ukraine is historically part of Russia during a speech in which he also signed decrees to recognize the independence of separatists regions of eastern Ukraine, a move that spurred President Biden to issue new sanctions. from FOX News : World https://ift.tt/30PBw4b via IFTTT

Canada Freedom Convoy: GiveSendGo demands FBI probe hackers, alleges 'highly coordinated' political doxing

The founder of the Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo called on the FBI to investigate the hackers who’ve made the names of the donors who contributed to the Canadian Freedom Convoy public as part of what he perceives to be a “well-orchestrated,” politically motivated doxing effort. from FOX News : World https://ift.tt/rdVUE5a via IFTTT

Vigils planned at Canadian embassies in US to protest imprisonment of pastor who preached to Freedom Convoy

Supporters of a Canadian pastor who has spent the past week in a maximum-security Calgary prison after speaking to members of the Freedom Convoy have organized vigils at various Canadian embassies in the United States to protest his treatment Tuesday. from FOX News : World https://ift.tt/nQx8ERY via IFTTT

Sweden ends COVID-19 testing requirements, eases restrictions

Sweden has halted wide-scale testing for COVID-19 even among people showing symptoms of an infection, putting an end to the mobile city-square tent sites, drive-in swab centers and home-delivered tests that became ubiquitous during the pandemic and provided essential data for tracking its spread. from FOX News : World https://ift.tt/BLIpDPt via IFTTT

Canadian great-grandfather who honked in support of truckers aggressively arrested by police, family claims

The family of a Canadian great-grandfather who was stopped for “unnecessary noise” in Ottawa because he honked his horn in support of protesting truckers allege a police officer who arrested him was overly aggressive Sunday, according to reports. from FOX News : World https://ift.tt/FsvI5xh via IFTTT

Retired Pope Benedict XVI asks for forgiveness over handling of clergy sex abuse cases, but denies wrongdoing

Retired Pope Benedict XVI asked forgiveness Tuesday for any “grievous faults" in his handling of clergy sex abuse cases, but denied any personal or specific wrongdoing after an independent report criticized his actions in four cases while he was archbishop of Munich, Germany. from FOX News : World https://ift.tt/lsRytam via IFTTT

Iran 'sham' trial of California resident sparks allegations that world powers have abandoned him

Jamshid Sharmahd, a German Iranian dissident and long-term California legal resident of California who was abducted by Iran’s regime in Dubai in 2020, went on trial and could face the death penalty over what critics are calling false links to a deadly bombing at a mosque in 2008. from FOX News : World https://ift.tt/4RZPpAO via IFTTT

Kabul airport Abbey Gate explosion was single blast, no follow-up enemy gunfire: Pentagon

The suicide bomb attack at the Abbey Gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S. servicemembers and injured at least 170 civilians was conducted by a single attacker and was not followed up by enemy gunfire, the Pentagon said Friday. from FOX News : World https://ift.tt/7HE6ph3 via IFTTT

Who is Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi — the leader of ISIS killed in US raid?

The Islamic State leader killed Thursday during a U.S. Special Operations forces raid in Syria was working undercover trying to rebuild the terrorist group, carried a gun wherever he went and once was detained by American forces in Iraq nearly 15 years ago, reports say. from FOX News : World https://ift.tt/FIMTG8CJD via IFTTT

Canadian groups coordinating delivery of fuel, food and resources to truckers protesting vaccine mandate

Multiple Canadian groups are coordinating efforts to deliver fuel, food, and other resources to the "Freedom Convoy" of truckers lined around the nation’s capital this week, blocking traffic around Parliament Hill to protest the federal government’s vaccine mandate. from FOX News : World https://ift.tt/VldJ0b7S4 via IFTTT