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From flea market hot dog seller to the head of a mercenary group behind a “mutiny” against the Russian military, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rise has been far from ordinary. A former convict who spent much of his young life behind bars, he rose up to become close to Vladimir Putin. He even earned himself the nickname

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the leader of the Wagner mercenary group of treason and leading an “armed mutiny”. He claimed the actions of one-time ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is leading a rebellion to oust Russia’s defence minister, were a “stab in the back” to the country’s soldiers and people. It came as Prigozhin

The head of the Wagner mercenary group has accused Russian military leaders of targeting his troops. Yevgeny Prigozhin said the attack happened after he criticised the country’s top brass in an explosive outburst on the Telegram messaging app. In a video, he had said the Kremlin’s rationale for invading Ukraine last February was based on

Australia’s prime minister has described a Russian diplomat squatting on land near the country’s parliament as “a bloke standing in the cold on a bit of grass in Canberra” who poses “no threat” to security. The apparent stand-off comes after Australia last week passed emergency legislation blocking Russia from building a new embassy on the

All five onboard the missing Titan sub are believed to have died, the company which operates the submersible said in a statement. “We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost,” a statement said. “These men were true explorers who

If the submersible now missing in the icy seas of the North Atlantic is still intact, the fate of the five men inside may rest on one crew member – a highly experienced mariner from France called Paul-Henri Nargeolet. Nargeolet knows the sea – the 77-year-old spent two decades in the French Navy, serving as

The US Coast Guard searching for a missing submersible has said it doesn’t know what the “noises” are that have been detected – but it is expanding the search area. The area is now more than twice the size of the US state of Connecticut. A Coast Guard spokesman said they “need to have hope”

A former employee of the missing Titan submersible operator has revealed he had raised “safety concerns” over the vessel but was reportedly “met with hostility” before later being sacked, court documents have shown. OceanGate’s former director of marine operations, David Lochridge, had raised concerns over “safety and quality control issues regarding the Titan to OceanGate

The submersible that went missing on its way to the wreck of the Titanic may have imploded and collapsed into pieces, an expert has told Sky News. Dr David Gallo, who describes the Titan’s pilot, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, as his “best friend”, said the timeline suggests something happened “mid-water”. Contact with the vessel was reportedly lost

The US coastguard has indicated those on board the missing submersible that lost contact near the wreck of the Titanic may have no more than a couple of days at best before its life support systems fail. The submersible craft, Titan, went missing on Sunday in the Atlantic Ocean some 435 miles (700km) south of

A submersible which takes tourists to see the wreck of the Titanic has gone missing, Sky News understands. It is not clear how many people, if any, were on board at the time, and it is understood that coastguards are looking for the vessel in the North Atlantic Ocean. Sky News has located the Polar

Three people have died and 29 others have been injured during a raid by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank. The shoot-out took place in the streets of the city of Jenin on Monday. Three Palestinians, including a 15-year-old boy, were among those killed in the incident, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Israel’s

A 76-year-old woman who was wrongly declared dead and surprised family members by knocking on her coffin has now passed away. Bella Montoya spent seven days in intensive care but died on Friday evening after suffering a stroke, Ecuador‘s health ministry said. She was under “permanent surveillance” after the bizarre incident in the city of

A referendum is being held in Switzerland to decide on a climate bill aimed at introducing new measures to save the country’s melting glaciers. Swiss voters are heading to the polls after a campaign by scientists and environmentalists argued that the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced. Campaigners are backing a government plan

There is by now a degree of predictability to Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s outbursts. Cause maximum outrage, swear a lot, declare that this is the point of no return and then, somewhat miraculously, settle with the warring party which is invariably Russia’s Ministry of Defence. Thus it was in the fight over ammunition, when Prigozhin

At least 40 people, most of them students, have been killed in a suspected rebel attack on a school in Uganda, officials have said. Other students have been abducted and a dormitory in the school has been set on fire in the attack, believed to have been carried out by Ugandan militants with ties to

Up to 500 people are missing after an overcrowded fishing boat carrying migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, the United Nations has said. Seventy-eight people are known to have died after the vessel got into difficulty and sank 45 miles off the coast of Greece in the early hours of Wednesday. Speaking at a briefing

A bus carrying mostly elderly people has collided with a lorry in a rural part of the Canadian province of Manitoba, killing 15 people and injuring 10 more, police have said. Rob Hill, commanding officer of the Manitoba Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said the bus was carrying 25 people and authorities are deploying all their

Conor McGregor has denied allegations of sexual assault against a woman at game four of the NBA finals on Saturday. A statement issued via his lawyer, Barbara R Llanes, said: “The allegations are false. Mr McGregor will not be intimidated.” Miami Police have confirmed they are investigating a report issued to them on 11 June,

A massive search operation is continuing for “hundreds” of missing migrants after at least 78 drowned when a fishing boat sank off the coast of Greece. Officials said 104 survivors were rescued after the vessel capsized about 50 miles from the southern coastal town of Pylos. But charity Alarm Phone, which operates a network supporting