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Fortnite July 2023 Leaks: Everything We Know
Fortnite July 2023 Leaks: Everything We Know
Fortnite July 2023 leaks reveal a Summer Event, full of quests and cosmetics, a new secret Battle Pass skin, and even a Marvel line coming to the Battle Royale.
2023-06-23 00:57
It will be more confusing than ever to watch an NFL game this season
It will be more confusing than ever to watch an NFL game this season
You're going to need a play-call sheet to keep track of where to watch the National Football League on television
2023-09-08 01:59
Giuliani to negotiate bond and surrender in Fulton County Wednesday, sources say
Giuliani to negotiate bond and surrender in Fulton County Wednesday, sources say
Rudy Giuliani and several other Trump co-defendants in the Georgia election subversion case are expected to surrender to Fulton County jail on Wednesday, multiple sources tell CNN.
2023-08-23 20:04
Like dogs, wolves recognize familiar human voices
Like dogs, wolves recognize familiar human voices
Here, wolfie, wolfie...
2023-06-24 02:25
Here's why 'Shark Tank' Season 14 Episode 22 is not airing this week: Find out when ABC show will return
Here's why 'Shark Tank' Season 14 Episode 22 is not airing this week: Find out when ABC show will return
'Shark Tank' Season 14 Episode 22 will introduce four entrepreneurs who will pitch their quirky products and ideas to the Sharks to grab a deal
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Greta Thunberg attends a London court hearing after police charged her with a public order offense
Greta Thunberg attends a London court hearing after police charged her with a public order offense
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has arrived at a London court for a hearing over a public order offense after she was arrested last month at a demonstration against a major oil and gas industry conference
2023-11-15 19:35
‘Wagner is victim of it’s own brand name’: How much of a threat does mercenary group pose in Belarus?
‘Wagner is victim of it’s own brand name’: How much of a threat does mercenary group pose in Belarus?
The newfound presence of Wagner mercenaries in Belarus, exiled from Russia after their mutinous march on Moscow, has fuelled fresh anxieties in Ukraine and on Nato’s eastern flank. Belarus’s neighbours have moved to a heightened state of alert since dictator Alexander Lukashenko appeared to broker a last-minute deal with the Kremlin to defuse the shortlived mutiny on 23 June and host Wagner troops on Belarusian soil. During a recent meeting at the strategically important Suwalki Gap, a sparsely populated land corridor near their countries’ borders with Belarus and Russia’s enclave of Kaliningrad, Lithuania’s president Gitanas Nauseda warned that north of 4,000 mercenaries were believed to be in Belarus, while Poland’s premier Mateusz Morawiecki branded them “extremely dangerous”. Poland is sending 10,000 troops to its eastern border, and this week held its largest military parade in decades, as it warned that Wagner mercenaries had moved towards Grodno and set up camp in the Brest region, some six miles from Poland’s border. A group associated with Ukraine’s military has also warned that the construction of a “tent city” capable of housing 1,000 mercenaries some 15 miles from its border could be used to simulate a threat there, in a bid to detract from Kyiv’s efforts to make painstaking gains along the heavily mined frontline of Russia’s invasion in the south, and defend a push by Moscow’s forces near Kupiansk in the north. The true extent to which Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s guns for hire are now operating in Belarus – and their aims there – remains hard to determine. “We are dealing with layer upon layer of disinformation,” said Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow at Chatham House. “Not only the repeated information campaign trying to convince Ukraine that there is a renewed threat from the north, but also confusion over exactly what Wagner is doing, who they are reporting to, who they are following orders from, and where they might be.” These factors make it hard to distinguish how much of the threat is “manufactured” to pile pressure on Belarus’s neighbours, Mr Giles said, adding: “The simple answer is that we don’t know. We should watch what is actually being done rather than what is being said.” However, Mark Galeotti, director of the Mayak Intelligence consultancy, said he believed Ukraine’s military was not “in the slightest bit worried” about the threat of Wagner attempting to cross its northern border. Speaking of claims the mercenaries could try to cross into Poland or Ukraine, he said: “In some ways, Wagner is a victim of its brand name, and people are suggesting it’s going to do all types of crazy things that are totally beyond their capabilities, but also which frankly no one would even try.” Wagner has “lost all of its heavy equipment”, he added, with Russia’s defence ministry making “damn sure” to reclaim tanks and artillery handed to the mercenaries while in Ukraine, meaning “we’re talking about a bunch of guys with Kalashnikovs, rather than a sort of fully coherent mechanised force”. Citing reports that funding disputes have already seen some mercenaries bussed back to Russia, Mr Galeotti said Ukraine has “ample forces to stop 2,000 guys with guns wandering over” a border “carefully watched” due to its proximity to Kyiv, most likely including by Nato. While he believes Wagner would not pose much of a direct threat even if better equipped, Nick Reynolds, the Royal United Services Institute’s research fellow for land warfare, said the possibility of disruption “can’t be discounted”. Read more: Wagner tracker: Charting Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenary group through the Ukraine war Wagner’s presence – along with that of Belarusian and Russian forces – means Ukraine does have to devote some troops to guard the border, which already comes under “a lot of artillery and drone strikes”, albeit not as heavily as troops along frontlines in the Donbas and further south, he said. While Poland’s concerns have been stoked by Mr Lukashenko’s jibes that the country should thank him for constraining Wagner mercenaries he claimed wish to “[smash] up Rzeszow and Warsaw”, the Belarusian leader vowed in February that Minsk would only enter the war if attacked by Ukraine – despite reports of pressure from Vladimir Putin to do so. Mr Reynolds said he did not foresee any real threat from Belarus this year due to the weakness of Minsk’s military and Russia’s presence there being “just not strong enough to credibly pose a threat of opening a second front” – although Moscow’s mobilisation efforts mean “that might change in time”. “Something I’d watch much more closely in the short-term is Wagner’s international footprint,” he said, adding that the group’s compromised position within Russia itself could see it lean more heavily on its activities in Africa and the Middle East, which are of “enormous value diplomatically” to the Kremlin. Mr Giles also warned that “forces taking orders from Russia or Belarus do not need to be large or well-equipped to cause disruption”. He pointed to the “migrant dumping campaign” initiated by Belarus in 2021, with its Baltic neighbours in Warsaw, Vilnius and Riga once again accusing Minsk in recent days of sending asylum-seekers en masse to the border to in a bid to pile pressure on them. And he highlighted the power of Wagner “as an information weapon”, whether to distract Ukraine or “throw some kind of provocation with Poland to try to back the fiction that Lukashenko presents to his people of Poland being an aggressive and threatening neighbour.” Dr Marina Miron, of King’s College London’s war studies department, agreed that an attempted incursion doesn’t make “any kind of sense” logistically, saying: “I think it’s more of a kind of psychological operation than anything else. At least for now.” While the risk is currently low, “at some point, they will be returning to Ukraine”, said Dr Miron. “That’s when there will be a definite threat.” Read More Wagner mercenaries issue a chilling message on Poland’s doorstep: ‘We are here’ Ukraine’s intelligence service claims responsibility for Crimean Bridge drone attack Lithuania to temporarily close two checkpoints with Belarus amid tensions on border Wagner tracker: Charting Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenary group through the Ukraine war
2023-08-19 17:47
United Parcel Service, Teamsters union to resume labor talks on Tuesday
United Parcel Service, Teamsters union to resume labor talks on Tuesday
United Parcel Service said it plans on Tuesday to resume labor talks with the Teamsters union representing 340,000
2023-07-23 03:16
NFL rumors: Patriots not done making moves after DeVante Parker deal
NFL rumors: Patriots not done making moves after DeVante Parker deal
The New England Patriots may have given a contract extension to DeVante Parker, but that's not stopping them from pursuing this player.The New England Patriots have been spending this past week making some in-house moves, with the biggest being the retention of wide receiver DeVante Parker....
2023-06-30 09:42
EU agrees data-sharing scheme for Airbnb-style rentals
EU agrees data-sharing scheme for Airbnb-style rentals
An EU-wide data-sharing scheme for Airbnb and similar rentals to help crack down on illegal short-term lets is a step closer...
2023-11-16 19:17
What is Threads? All your questions about Meta's new Twitter rival, answered.
What is Threads? All your questions about Meta's new Twitter rival, answered.
Threads, Meta’s text-based app seemingly built to rival Twitter, is live
2023-07-07 01:26
Switzerland’s Top Party Wants Fewer People — Employers Need More
Switzerland’s Top Party Wants Fewer People — Employers Need More
Switzerland’s biggest party has decided that the country only has room for 10 million people — just as
2023-09-29 15:00