<div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2VBM9G_0uqQcZM400" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2VBM9G_0uqQcZM400" width="450" height="299" > MOSCOW (Reuters) - A court in Moscow has upheld the decision to arrest in absentia Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, state news agency RIA reported on Wednesday. Navalnaya, who lives outside Russia, was accused of participating in an "extremist" group and arrested for two months by a Moscow court in July, meaning that she would be detained if she set foot on Russian soil. <nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> (Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Mark Trevelyan) </div>

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TheDailyBeast

A Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger plane crashed Friday outside Moscow, killing all three crew members on board, according to Russian state news agency TASS. The crash reportedly happened during a test flight, when no passengers were on board. Authorities are investigating what caused the fatal incident.  The crash comes after a series of issues with Russia’s flagship plane, which was developed by the Russian aerospace company Sukhoi Civil Aircraft and was the first all-new commercial Russian aircraft produced after the end of the Soviet Union. In May 2012, a Sukhoi Superjet 100 jet was on a demonstration flight in Indonesia when it crashed into Mount Salak, killing all 45 people aboard. Then, in May 2019, 41 people died after an Aeroflot Superjet burst into flames after an emergency landing just after taking off from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport.  Read more at The Daily Beast.

Russian Passenger Jet Crashes Outside Moscow, Killing All on Board

Nearly a dozen high-profile political prisoners in Russia have been quietly shuffled from their cells in recent days, fueling hopes that a major prisoner swap may be imminent.Rumors flew Wednesday that such a deal between Russia and the U.S. and their respective allies could include Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained by Russian authorities in March 2023. Earlier this month, Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years in a high-security penal colony under espionage charges internationally condemned as fabricated.Moscow previously said that there was no chance of Gershkovich being exchanged until after his sentencing. On Tuesday, the...

Putin Gets Ready to Swap U.S. Captives for Russian Assassin

The Kremlin has admitted that several of the people returned to Russia in Thursday’s prisoner swap were spies.Among those released in the multinational exchange was Vadim Krasikov, an assassin who had been serving a life sentence in Germany for murdering one of Moscow’s enemies in a park in Berlin. On Friday, the Kremlin confirmed that Krasikov was an employee of Russia’s FSB security service who had served in the agency’s elite Alpha Group special forces unit.Krasikov was the first of the returnees to be embraced by Russian President Vladimir Putin after their plane landed in Moscow on Thursday evening, underscoring...

Kremlin Finally Admits Swapped Russian Prisoners Were Its Top Spies

Russia freed American Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and others on Thursday in the biggest prisoner swap deal between the U.S. and Moscow since the end of the Cold War, with a Russian assassin heading back to his homeland as part of the arrangement. A total of 26 people and seven countries were involved in the exchange, which took place in Ankara, Turkey, the Turkish presidency said. It also confirmed that Vadim Krasikov—an FSB hitman jailed in Germany for a shocking daylight murder—was included in the exchange. As well as Gershkovich, fellow American and former U.S. marine Paul Whelan...

Putin Frees Gershkovich and Other Americans in Exchange for Russian Hitman

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday denounced NATO's summit promise to grant eventual membership to Ukraine and said Russia should work towards the "disappearance" of both Ukraine and the military alliance.

Former Russian president Medvedev says Moscow should seek 'disappearance' of Ukraine and NATO

The Independent

 Freed American prisoner Paul Whelan described being imprisoned in Russia as “absolute nonsense by the Russian government.”He made those comments early on Friday 2 August after he, along with journalist Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva, arrived at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.The three Americans were part of the biggest US-Russian prisoner swap in post-Soviet history, a trade which follows years of back-channel negotiations despite relations between Washington and Moscow being at their lowest point since the Cold War after Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.

Freed American Paul Whelan describes being imprisoned in Russia as ‘absolute nonsense’

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Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

PARIS (Reuters) -The Algerian and Taiwanese boxers embroiled in a dispute over gender in sport at the Paris Games were disqualified from the 2023 World Championships after a sex chromosome test ruled both of them ineligible, the International Boxing Association said on Monday.

Olympics-Barred boxing federation says Khelif failed chromosome test

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge said two close advisers to the late Jeffrey Epstein can be sued by victims who accused them of aiding and abetting the disgraced financier's sex trafficking of young women and teenage girls.

Two of Jeffrey Epstein's close advisers can face victims' claims

PARIS (Reuters) - Colombian Daniel Restrepo attempted the hardest dive yet at the Olympic Games on Tuesday in the men's 3-metre springboard preliminary round. In his fifth dive, Restrepo launched himself to forward four and a half somersaults in a pike position - a routine that has a difficulty level of 4.2.

Olympics-Diving-Colombian Restrepo attempts hardest dive in men's 3m springboard qualifiers

Wisconsin State

Minnesota State

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her newly selected vice presidential running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, campaigned for the first time together on Tuesday in Philadelphia, kicking off a multi-day tour of battleground states aimed at introducing Walz to the national stage.

Democrats Harris, Walz campaign together for first time as White House ticket

(Reuters) - U.S. auto safety regulator has opened a preliminary evaluation into 77,131 Nissan vehicles over reports of an issue with the steering tie rod, it said on Wednesday.

US auto regulator opens probe into more than 77,000 Nissan SUVs

Detroit, MI

(Reuters) -Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris will campaign alongside her new running mate, Tim Walz, on Wednesday, holding events in battleground states Wisconsin and Michigan that will offer an early test of his Midwestern credentials.

Democrats Harris, Walz to campaign in crucial Michigan, Wisconsin

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former top Mexican law enforcement official convicted last year on U.S. corruption charges does not deserve a new trial, after he tried to bribe a fellow jail inmate to lie that the government's case was tainted, a U.S. judge said on Wednesday.

No new trial for former Mexico drug czar, US judge says

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Ronkonkoma, NY

The New York Post reveals that two men who died in a plane crash at MacArthur Airport were from Virginia. The men had been visiting friends in Long Island and were returning home when the tragedy occurred.

Life partners from Virginia have been identified as the victims of a New York plane crash

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Foodie in Chicago

Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

(Reuters) -Wall Street's main indexes advanced on Wednesday, aided by gains in megacap stocks and a dovish turn by Japan's top policymaker after a surprise interest rate hike last week that partly sparked heavy volatility in global markets.

Tech surge, BOJ's dovish comments boost Wall Street

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has said Warsaw is considering a proposal from Kyiv to shoot down Russian missiles heading towards Polish territory while they are still in Ukrainian airspace. The proposal was included in a joint defence agreement between the two countries signed during President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to...

Poland considers downing Russian missiles over Ukraine

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Russia had thrown some 30,000 troops at Kharkiv's defensive lines in May, seizing several towns and threatening Ukraine's second-largest city.

Zelenskyy says Russia is giving up on Kharkiv, months after Moscow tried to blow open the war's northeastern front

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Children of freed sleeper agents learned they were Russians on the flight, Kremlin says

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A court in Moscow has upheld the decision to arrest in absentia Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, state news agency RIA reported on Wednesday.

Moscow court upholds arrest of Yulia Navalnaya in absentia

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