Archive for July 28, 2023
‘Exiled’ Russian mercenary boss Prigozhin hails Niger coup, touts services
Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who remains active despite leading a failed mutiny against the Russian army’s top brass last month, has hailed Niger’s military coup as good news and offered his fighters’ services to bring order. A voice message on Telegram app channels associated with Wagner which they said was Prigozhin did not claim…
Read MoreJudge orders 3 of the ‘Newburgh Four’ freed in New York synagogue bomb plot
Three men convicted more than a decade ago of plotting to blow up New York City synagogues, a Jewish community center and shoot down military planes, were ordered to be released from prison by a judge on Thursday who said they had been manipultaed by the FBI. In a scathing opinion against the FBI, the…
Read MoreAccused of bomb threats they say they didn’t make, family of Chinese dissident detained in Thailand
When Gao Peng landed in Thailand on July 3, he was not expecting to be accused of making bomb threats, to be put on an EU travel blacklist, or to see his mother and 16-year-old sister detained and threatened with deportation back to China. But bomb threats made in his and his mother’s names against…
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