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A top Hollywood talent agent is the latest prominent figure to publicly ridicule Meghan Markle following her disastrous split from Spotify, saying the Duchess of Sussex is “not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of talent.”

The whereabouts of mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin remained a mystery Tuesday after Russia’s Putin vowed punishment.

Reclaim Party leader Laurence Fox has been cleared by the Metropolitan Police after demands the for burning a ‘Progress Pride’ flag.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu resurfaced on Monday, making his first public appearance after an aborted insurrection by Wagner Group mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin on Monday morning issued his first statement since his aborted insurrection over the weekend.

Pope Francis stunned the faithful this weekend when he welcomed some 200 avant-garde artists in the Sistine Chapel, including photographer Andres Serrano, creator of the controversial “Piss Christ” work showing a crucifix submerged in a glass of urine.

Germany’s populist AfD shocked the political establishment in the country after securing its first-ever district council election victory.

Amsterdam museum severed ties with St. Petersburg’s Hermitage collection after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Multiple Russian news outlets, including the government-tied Tass news network and the newspaper Kommersant, reported on Monday that the head of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), Yevgeny Prigozhin, continues to face a criminal case for attempting an “armed mutiny” against the Russian Defense Ministry.

Three United Nations staff members were arrested in Israel on suspicion of attempting to smuggle cocaine into the country from Jordan.

Ukraine has “de-occupied” 130km², an area a little smaller than Staten Island in New York, since the start of the counter-offensive.

The decision to turn back from Moscow followed threats against the families of Wagner leaders from the Kremlin, UK security sources claimed.

Greece’s conservative New Democracy party won a landslide victory on Sunday, likely gaining enough seats to form a government.

Russia reportedly launched its largest series of missile strikes against Ukraine in recent months on Saturday amid the Wagner rebellion.

Hikers found human remains Saturday in a mountainous area of California near where actor Julian Sands is thought to have disappeared earlier this year.

Twitter may be close to bending the knee to the European Union’s stringent new laws on fake news, Russian propaganda, and online crime. EU Officials recently visited the headquarters of Elon Musk’s social media platform to assess its ability to fight what it considers “disinformation.”

The BBC has been accused of “collusion” with Sadiq Khan over its reporting on the Mayor of London’s anti-car Ultra Low Emission Zone scheme.

Intelligence officials were conducting detailed briefings at the White House, the Pentagon, and on Capitol Hill about the potential for unrest in Russia a full 24-hours before Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin launched the ultimately failed march on Moscow, two newspaper outlets have claimed.

The Canadian equivalent of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bill forcing tech companies to pay off and collude with big media companies, has passed in Canada. As a result, Facebook (now known as Meta) says news content will no longer be available on its main platform and Instagram in the country — and Google is considering a similar approach on its platforms.

Russian deputy foreign minister Andrei Rudenko arrived in Beijing on Sunday for talks with China’s foreign minister Qin Gang just hours after it was confirmed paramilitary supporters of warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin had curtailed their march on Moscow.

The exile of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin to Belarus could be a smokescreen for a surprise attack on Ukraine, a former UK army chief warned.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Saturday that it’s conducting an investigation into the loss of the Titanic sub.

Greeks headed to the polls for the second time in less than two months on Sunday, with the Conservatives a favorite to win a wide majority.

Under the deal announced by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Prigozhin will go to Belarus, and charges against him will be dropped.

Belarussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko claims he struck a deal with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin to stop the group’s march on Moscow.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this week that Italy intends to set an example in aiding persecuted Christians around the world, insisting that “religious freedom is not a second-class right.”

The Wagner paramilitary forces of Yevgeny Prigozhin have reportedly broken through to the Lipetsk Region, around 230 miles south of Moscow.

French President Emmanuel Macron suggested the imposition of a global taxation system in order to subsidise the green agenda to mitigate climate change.

Yevgeny Prigozhin refused to surrender amid claims of a coup attempt against the Kremlin and warnings that his forces are marching on Moscow.

“Armed rebellion” against Moscow is treason and betrayal which Putin will “react harshly” to with “inevitable punishment”, he said.

The government of Russia confirmed late Friday that it had opened an investigation into and filed charges against the leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, for calling for “armed rebellion” against Moscow.

“Happy Brexit Day”, said Farage while decrying the political establishment’s sabotage of what was voted for this day seven years ago.

Greeks return to the polls Sunday for a second general election in five weeks, with the conservative front-runners eyeing a landslide.

Former staff of the disgraced Tavistock gender clinic opened a private practice to continue offering contested medical methods to children.

Killer dolphins? Russia has deployed combat-trained marine mammals to its naval base in Ukraine, says an intelligence digest.

Paul McCartney took to social media to clarify that artificial intelligence (AI) was not used in a “new” Beatles song. “Nothing has been artificially created,” he said.