Wagner boss fumes that Russian brigade "fled" Bakhmut area, allowing Ukrainians to seize territory
From CNN's Tim Lister and Olga Voitovych
While Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has frequently poured scorn on Russia’s Defense Ministry and its leadership, he has not previously accused Russian units of running from battle and allowing Ukrainian forces to recapture territory.
But in another expletive-laden tirade released on the same day that the Kremlin commemorated victory over Nazi Germany, Prigozhin said one Russian brigade had abandoned its positions south of Bakhmut, leading to many casualties among his fighters.
In comments Tuesday, Prigozhin said “one of the units of the Ministry of Defense fled from one of our flanks, abandoning their positions. They all fled and [laid] bare a front nearly 2 kilometers [1.25 miles] wide and 500 meters [1,640ft] deep.”
Former PM Imran Khan appears before judge amid uproar in Pakistan
At least three people shot dead and 27 injured in Peshawar as protests spread across country
Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has been presented before a judge at a police station in Islamabad, 24 hours after his arrest by scores of paramilitary officers that led to countrywide uproar.
At least three people were shot dead and 27 were injured after violence broke out between protesters and police in the city of Peshawar, according to a local hospital. Vehicles were torched and the building of Radio Pakistan was set alight.
In Pakistan’s most populous state, Punjab, nearly 1,000 people were arrested and the army was deployed. At least 25 police vehicles were set on fire in the province, with 130 officers injured in clashes and more than a dozen official buildings looted, the government said, blaming Khan’s supporters. In Islamabad, a police office was set on fire.
Tunisia launches investigation after several killed in shooting near synagogue
Tunisian authorities were Wednesday investigating a shooting spree by a police officer that claimed five lives and sparked mass panic during a Jewish pilgrimage at Africa's oldest synagogue.
Security forces threw a tight cordon around the site on Djerba island as officials probed whether Tuesday's shootings were a random killing spree or an anti-Semitic terrorist attack.
The police officer first killed a colleague and took his ammunition, then went to the Ghriba synagogue and opened fire, sparking terror on the final day of the annual pilgrimage.
Wearing his uniform and a bulletproof vest, he shot dead two visitors and injured two more. In the ensuing gun battle, he also wounded six police officers, two of whom later died, hospital sources said.
Turkey at a CrossroadsErdoğan Faces a Real Risk of Losing Election
The waterfront district of Kasımpaşa in Istanbul has hardly changed a bit since Recep Tayyip Erdoğan used to sell sesame rings here half a century ago. Austere residential high-rises are lined up, one after the other, laundry hanging out to dry from the balconies. Most of the women on the street wear headscarves, and the men kill time in the tea houses playing backgammon.
Mehmet Toprak is standing behind the counter of his grocery in a side street, a short, 82-year-old with thinning gray hair, a gray beard and a hunched back. Like the Erdoğans, Toprak's family is also from the Black Sea region – and Toprak has known Erdoğan since he was a child. He proudly followed his neighbor's career, as he first became the mayor of Istanbul and then the prime minister and president of Turkey. For years on end, he says, he would pray for Erdoğan every Friday at the mosque.
Gov't to pitch safety of Fukushima water release to S Korean experts
The Japanese government hopes to pitch the safety of a planned release of treated radioactive water into the sea from the disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear complex when South Korean experts visit the site later this month, the industry minister said Tuesday.
"We hope the inspection will help deepen understanding in South Korea of the safety of the release," Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura told a press conference after the two countries' leaders agreed Sunday to dispatch the experts amid concerns among the South Korean public over the issue.
But Nishimura noted that the purpose of the inspection is "not to evaluate or certify the safety of treated water."
Israel and Gaza militants in heaviest fighting for months
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have fired 270 rockets at Israel and the Israeli military says it has hit 50 targets belonging to Islamic Jihad, in the heaviest fighting in nine months.
Five people have been killed and 40 injured in Gaza, local medics say.
Several were hurt rushing to shelters in Israel, where most rockets have been intercepted or fell in open areas.
It comes a day after 15 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, including three Islamic Jihad leaders.
Islamic Jihad, which is the second biggest militant group in Gaza, had sworn to avenge their deaths.
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