Wall Street Journal: Wagner boss planned to capture top Russian defense chiefs
Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin planned to seize two of Russia top military officials when he launched a short-lived mutiny on Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing Western officials.
Prigozhin’s plot involved the capture of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and top army general Valery Gerasimov when the pair visited a region along the border of Ukraine, the WSJ wrote.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) learned of the plot two days before it was due to take place, forcing Prigozhin to change his plans at the last minute and launch a march towards Moscow instead, according to the report.
Wagner mercenaries took control of a key military base in the city of Rostov-on-Don, and his troops were approaching the Russian capital when Prigozhin called off his mutiny.
Bangladeshi labour leader beaten to death while trying to resolve dispute
Shahidul Islam died in an assault on Sunday in Dhaka after meeting garment factory employees fighting for unpaid salaries
Police in Bangladesh are investigating the murder of a prominent trade union leader who was fatally beaten while trying to settle a dispute between a garment factory owner and workers over unpaid wages.
Shahidul Islam, 45, a top labour organiser for the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF), was attacked on Sunday evening in Gazipur, a major garment industry hub on the outskirts of Dhaka, after intervening on behalf of workers who had gathered to demand back pay.
Ahmed Sharif, 35, a union organiser who was also wounded in the attack, told the Guardian he and Islam had visited the Prince Jacquard Sweater factory several times in the run-up to the attack because workers had been demanding unpaid salaries and wanted to be paid before Eid.
South Koreans become a year or two younger overnight
A new law has scrapped South Korea's traditional age-counting system, meaning people have to recalculate their ages. A third system will, however, remain in place.
People in South Korea woke up on Wednesday to find that they were a year younger than they had been on Tuesday, and in some cases, up to two years younger.
This mass de-aging was down to a new law coming into effect, which scrapped a traditional age counting system, leaving South Koreans using the international method.
"We expect legal disputes, complaints and social confusion that have been caused over how to calculate ages will be greatly reduced," Minister of Government Legislation Lee Wan-kyu told a briefing on Monday.
France braces for protests as Macron slams ‘unforgivable’ police shooting of teen driver
France braced for more angry protests Wednesday after the killing of a teenager by police during a traffic stop that President Emmanuel Macron called "unforgivable".
The government said it would deploy 2,000 riot police to deal with any unrest, a day after a 17-year-old was shot in the chest by a police officer who then appeared to lie about the circumstances of the killing.
The shooting had already sparked unrest in several Paris suburbs overnight.
Celebrities and politicians expressed outrage and grief at the death of the teenager, with Macron calling it "inexplicable" and "unforgivable".
The teenager, named only as Nael M., was pulled over by two policemen on Tuesday for breaking traffic rules, prosecutors said.
Police initially reported that one officer shot at the teenager because he was driving his car at him, but this version of events was contradicted by a video circulating on social media and authenticated by AFP.
Iranian reporters share prize for covering death in hijab arrest
By KOICHIRO ISHIDA/ Correspondent
June 28, 2023 at 18:30 JST
Two jailed Iranian reporters received a prestigious journalism award for courageously turning the spotlight on the death in detention of a compatriot accused of improperly wearing a hijab.
Elahe Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi were awarded the Golden Pen of Freedom on June 28 at the 74th World News Media Congress being held here.
The two reported from an early stage about the plight of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, who was arrested over the way she wore a hijab and suddenly died during detention in September.
The incident led to mass protests against the government.
‘How would you survive?’: Desperation grows in Iraq water crisis
Parched communities, once displaced by the ravages of ISIL, can barely survive the decimation of their water supplies.
The most precious resource in the villages of al-Ankour is water, and it’s gone. Many of the area’s 13,000 residents want to leave but don’t have the means to escape.
Habbaniyah Lake, once a sprawling body of water spanning 140sq km (55sq miles) with a capacity of 3.3 billion cubic metres (4.2 billion cubic yards), is rapidly shrinking as a devastating water crisis unfolds around it. The land is cracked, the sun stings and locals are struggling to cope.
A trace of toxic waste wafts from the edge of the lake, the stench of putrid water hitting long before it can be seen. In some parts of the village, salt-encrusted ground irritates the nose, the burning sun increasing the residue.
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