Ukraine says it downed 2 missiles, 60 drones during Russia’s overnight attack
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Ukraine says it downed 2 missiles, 60 drones during Russia’s overnight attack

Ukraine said it shot down two missiles and 60 drones over nine regions in an overnight attack, after Russia stepped up its assault on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure earlier this week. More than 2-1/2 years since Russia’s full-scale invasion, Kyiv is pushing the West for additional air defense and support in jointly shooting…

Telegram founder Pavel Durov hit with criminal charges in France after refusing to help authorities wiretap users
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov hit with criminal charges in France after refusing to help authorities wiretap users

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was charged Wednesday with being complicit in the spread of crime on the popular messaging app, including child sex abuse, drug trafficking, and fraud, officials said. Durov, who was arrested on Saturday in Paris, was released on a $5.6 million bail and ordered to stay in…

Drug dealers to Putin critics: Behind Pavel Durov’s rare Telegram audience | Social Media

Drug dealers to Putin critics: Behind Pavel Durov’s rare Telegram audience | Social Media

Once upon a time, buying drugs in Bishkek, the capital of the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan, involved consorting with criminal elements. Now, anyone with a smartphone can place an order for amphetamines, hashish and other illicit substances, and be instantly directed to a dead drop hidden somewhere in the…

Democrats distance themselves from megadonor Gaurav Srivastava who allegedly posed as a CIA operative
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Democrats distance themselves from megadonor Gaurav Srivastava who allegedly posed as a CIA operative

The now defunct Biden campaign and several other Democratic politicians and committees have frozen or returned donations from an Indian national who allegedly duped a foreign businessman into thinking he was connected to the CIA – scamming him out of millions of dollars.  Gaurav Srivastava donated more than $1 million…

Russian nuclear plant at risk as war with Ukraine rages, UN watchdog warns | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russian nuclear plant at risk as war with Ukraine rages, UN watchdog warns | Russia-Ukraine war News

IAEA head Rafael Grossi says Kursk nuclear plant’s proximity to the fighting is ‘extremely serious’. A nuclear plant located in western Russia where fighting is raging between Russian and Ukrainian forces is vulnerable to a serious accident because it lacks a protective dome that could shield it from missiles, drones…

Mapping Russia’s Kursk nuclear power plant | Interactive News

Mapping Russia’s Kursk nuclear power plant | Interactive News

IAEA chief visits one of Russia’s nuclear sites after Moscow accused Ukraine of attacking the Kursk power station. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi is visiting the Kursk nuclear power station, following Russian claims of an attack on the site last week. In a post…