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(Reuters) - Army General Sergei Surovikin, nicknamed "General Armageddon" by the Russian media for his reputed ruthlessness, is among senior generals ...

The burly, shaven-headed 56-year-old was last seen on Saturday when he appeared in a video, looking uncomfortable and breathing hard, and without insignia, urging the chief of the Wagner Group mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin, to give up. A New York Times report, based on a U.S. intelligence briefing, said Surovikin had advance knowledge of the mutiny and that authorities were checking if he was complicit. Surovikin, then commander of Russian forces in southern Ukraine, was given overall command...

As Aymen al-Rubaye plants mangrove seedlings in the sprawling tidal flats of southern Iraq, the black smoke rising over the skyline behind him shows the ecological damage that he is toiling to undo.

Army General Sergei Surovikin, nicknamed "General Armageddon" by the Russian media for his reputed ruthlessness, is among senior generals who have disappeared from public view since Saturday's failed mutiny aimed at toppling the top brass.

MOSCOW, June 28 (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he persuaded Russian President Vladimir Putin not to

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish police have given the go-ahead for a small demonstration to take place outside a Stockholm mosque on Wednesday at which the organisers said they would

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling coalition postponed a preliminary parliament vote on Wednesday on a bill that the central bank chief had said would threaten the Bank of Israel's independence. Yinon Azulay, the parliament member who proposed the bill, which would force banks to pay interest on checking accounts and give final approval on setting the rate to the finance minister, said the vote would take place next week instead. Azulay said that after cons...

VILNIUS/WARSAW (Reuters) -The Lithuanian and Polish presidents visited Kyiv on Wednesday, to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and show support for Ukraines bids to join NATO and the EU, ahead of summits of both bodies.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling coalition postponed a preliminary parliamentary reading on Wednesday of a bill the central bank chief had said would threaten the Bank of Israel's independence.

(Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he let Saturday's aborted mutiny go on as long as it did to avoid bloodshed, while the Wagner