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MILAN: An overnight fire in a retirement home in Milan killed six people and injured around 80, including three who are in a critical condition, Italian authorities said on Friday. The fire started in a first-floor room of the facility. It was put out quickly and did not spread to…

CNN – All eyes will be on Vladimir Putin this week, with the Russian president expected to make his first appearance on the world stage since the Wagner insurrection threatened his steel grip on power. Putin is scheduled Tuesday to attend a virtual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO),…

CNN Editor’s Note: Erin Burnett’s full interview with Volodymyr Zelensky airs Wednesday July 5 at 7 p.m. ET. Odesa, Ukraine CNN  —  Vladimir Putin’s response to the armed Wagner rebellion was “weak” and the Russian President is losing control of his own people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN in…

Last Updated: July 04, 2023, 08:45 IST Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (File Photo) The summit's theme is "Towards a SECURE SCO'. The SECURE acronym was coined by PM Modi and it stands for Security; Economy and Trade; Connectivity; Unity; Respect for Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity; and EnvironmentPrime Minister Narendra Modi…

Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. FILE/Reuters. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host the virtual SCO summit on Tuesday. The meet is likely to be attended Chinese president Xi Jinping, Russian president Vladimir Putin and Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif. The summit is expected to…

At least 21,000 Wagner mercenaries have been killed fighting in Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian leader said the private military company had suffered “enormous losses,” particularly in eastern Ukraine where its “most powerful group” was fighting. “Our troops killed 21,000 Wagnerites in eastern Ukraine alone,” Zelensky told…

Despite all of Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko’s chest thumping about his involvement in negotiating an end to Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s uprising in Russia, he might have set himself up for political instability, a top U.S. diplomat tells The Daily Beast. With Lukashenko agreeing to have Prigozhin exiled to Belarus—and…

According to University College Cork‘s (UCC) Macroscopic Quantum Matter Group lab researchers, A new superconducting material known as uranium ditelluride (UTe2) has a spatially varying superconducting state.  This new superconductor can address one of the biggest problems with quantum computing. Lead author and Ph.D. candidate Joe Carroll made the discovery,…

Dear DM168 readers, I was away last week, locked in the bubble of my MBA course, while the news cycle whirled around at breakneck speed. Five days of stepping out of the whirlwind gives you the privilege of distance, disconnect and perspective. I don’t know about you, but I cannot…

Can the Kremlin live without Wagner in Syria?    Probably, writes Anton Mardasov from Moscow, in a must-read analysis of the implications of the ill-fated Wagner coup threat for Russia’s foreign policies in Africa and the Middle East.  While replacing Wagner in Africa may be difficult, the challenges may be…