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The captain of the Solong cargo ship arrested after a collision with a tanker in the North Sea is a Russian national, the ship's owner has confirmed. Humberside Police said the 59-year-old man remained in custody after being arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter on Tuesday. The Portuguese-flagged Solong and the US-registered tanker Stena Immaculate crashed off the East Yorkshire coast at about 10:00 GMT on Monday. A missing […]
Russia has vetoed a resolution at the UN Security Council calling on all countries to prevent an arms race in outer space. The draft resolution, put forward by the US and Japan, sought to reaffirm a principle already set out in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. The US has warned that Russia is believed to be developing a space-based, anti-satellite nuclear weapon. Russia said it was "firmly committed" to the […]
Four people directly involved in the Moscow concert hall attack are among 11 detained, Russia's security chief tells President Putin. At least 93 people were killed when gunmen attacked a packed concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia Says. More than 100 others were wounded at the Crocus City Hall, according to the FSB Federal Security Service. The US says it's credible that an affiliate of the Islamic State […]
A South Korean man has been detained in Russia on suspicion of espionage, local media has reported. South Korean officials have confirmed the arrest and say its diplomats have engaged in talks for his return. Baek Won-soon was arrested in the far-eastern city of Vladivostok "at the start of the year", state agency Tass reported, and is now in a Moscow jail. He is believed to be the first South […]
Protests and vigils have been held near Russian embassies in many countries following the death of Alexei Navalny in a Russian jail. More than 100 street protesters were detained in Russian cities, reports say, as people were warned not to rally. The 47-year-old outspoken critic of President Putin had been in a Russian jail since 2021 on politically-motivated charges. The prison service of the Arctic region where he was serving […]
Russia has launched a wave of drone attacks on one of Ukraine’s biggest grain exporting ports, hours before talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Reports say Ukraine’s Air Force urged residents of Izmail port, one of the country’s two major grain-exporting facilities on the Danube River in the Odesa region, to seek shelter. According to the report, Odesa Governor Oleh Kiper later said […]
Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Wagner, a private military company, has been killed in a plane crash. BBC reported that Prigozhin was among 10 passengers on board a private jet that crashed in the north of Moscow, the capital of Russia, on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. The Russian Civil Aviation Authority said seven passengers and three crew were on board the Embraer aircraft, which was en route from Moscow to St. […]
Russia's defence ministry says it has thwarted a Ukrainian drone attack after it downed two drones over the Moscow region. Reports say two other drones were intercepted over the Bryansk region, north-east of the Ukrainian border, it added. Flights were temporarily stopped to and from Moscow's airports early on Tuesday, the ministry said. According to the report, airspace above Moscow has been closed several times in recent days as reports […]
At least 33 people have been killed in an explosion and fire at a petrol station in Dagestan in southern Russia. The blast erupted in the regional capital, Makhachkala, on the coast of the Caspian Sea, at 21:40 local time (18:40 GMT) on Monday. Pictures showed a large fire lighting up the night sky and a number of fire engines at the scene. According to local media, the fire began […]
