Wagner leader reported dead in plane crash
Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin is shown prior to a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Kremlin in Moscow, July 4, 2017. A business jet en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg crashed on Aug. 23, 2023, killing all ten people on board, Russian emergency officials said. Mercenary chief Prigozhin was on the passenger list, officials said, but it wasn’t immediately clear if he was on board.
Yevegeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary army, is reported dead in a plane crash near the city of Tver, just north of Moscow. Earlier this summer, Prigozhin led an armed mutiny in an attempt to oust the military leadership within Russia’s Ministry of Defense. And, makeshift chairlifts that bring kids to school in remote, mountainous regions of Pakistan are a local solution to a common problem: the scarcity of roads and buses. Also, belching and farting from cows is responsible for a worrying amount of greenhouse gas emissions every year. Ireland is facing up to the fact that having so many cows may be detrimental to the country’s climate goals. Plus, a controversy over Adolf Hitler’s house.
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