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CNN —Bronny James, the son of NBA star LeBron James, suffered a cardiac arrest during basketball practice at the University of Southern California and was hospitalized on Monday, according to a statement from a family spokesperson. “Yesterday while practicing Bronny James suffered a cardiac arrest. LeBron James, left, poses with his son Bronny after Sierra Canyon beat Akron St. Vincent - St. Mary in a high school basketball game on December 14, 2019, in Columbus, Ohio. “My last year will be played with my son,” James told the Athletic in 2022. Last July, USC freshman forward Vince Iwuchukwu suffered a cardiac arrest during a summer workout.

Persons: CNN — Bronny James, LeBron James, Bronny James, “, James, LeBron, ” Bronny, Bronny, Vincent, St, Mary, Jay LaPrete, ” James, It’s, Vince Iwuchukwu, Iwuchukwu, Jon Yonamine, Erin Tillman, Lauren Crawford, Andy Enfield, ”, Damar Hamlin, ” Hamlin Organizations: CNN, NBA, University of Southern, USC, USC’s, Sierra Canyon High School, Sierra Canyon, Akron St, Los Angeles Lakers, Athletic, American Heart Association ., Buffalo Bills, Twitter Locations: University of Southern California, Savannah, Los Angeles, Sierra, Columbus , Ohio, that’s

☆ Officials are using drones and infrared cameras in a full-scale hunt for a possible lion loose on the streets of Berlin
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Two pedestrians in Berlin filmed a large cat — believed to be a lion — hunting a wild boar. The search started on July 20, with officials using helicopters, drones, and infrared cameras. Berlin officials warned residents to keep their animals and children inside during the search. German officials told The Guardian there are no nearby zoos or animal sanctuaries that have reported a missing animal. As a precaution, officials warned families to keep their children and farm animals inside until the search is complete.

Persons: — Organizations: Berlin, Service, Guardian, Associated Press Locations: Berlin, Wall, Silicon

☆ TikTok ‘stress test’ shows it’s not ‘fully ready’ for looming EU social media rules, commissioner says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Washington CNN —TikTok has “more work” to do to meet tough new European standards that are coming for social media and content moderation, according to a top EU official who performed a “stress test” of the company this week. “TikTok is dedicating significant resources to compliance,” Breton said, pointing to changes TikTok has made to its recommendation algorithms and its transparency procedures as evidence the company appears to be taking its obligations seriously. TikTok didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the test results. TikTok isn’t the only large tech platform to submit to an EU stress test. Last month, European officials evaluated Twitter’s platform for DSA compliance and also announced plans to stress test Facebook-parent Meta’s services.

Persons: Washington CNN — TikTok, Thierry Breton, Breton, Shou Chew, “, ” Breton, TikTok, didn’t Organizations: Washington CNN, EU, Digital Services, European Commission, DSA Locations: Dublin

"High level, we want this to become something like your personal AI friend," said developer Div Garg, whose company MultiOn is beta-testing an AI agent. The race towards increasingly autonomous AI agents has been supercharged by the March release of GPT-4 by developer OpenAI, a powerful upgrade of the model behind ChatGPT - the chatbot that became a sensation when released last November. GPT-4 facilitates the type of strategic and adaptable thinking required to navigate the unpredictable real world, said Vivian Cheng, an investor at venture capital firm CRV who has a focus on AI agents. OpenAI itself is very interested in AI agent technology, according to four people briefed on its plans. There are at least 100 serious projects working to commercialize agents, said Matt Schlicht, who writes a newsletter on AI.

Persons: Siri, Alexa, Tony Stark's, Kanjun Qiu, Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, Qiu, OpenAI, Vivian Cheng, CRV, Aravind Srinivas, Jarvis, Yoshua Bengio, Satya Nadella, Apple's Siri, it's, Google, Edward Grefenstette, Jason Franklin, WVV Capital, Hesam Motlagh, Matt Schlicht, Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin, Kenneth Li Organizations: Microsoft, Google, U.S . Federal Trade Commission, Reuters, FTC, OpenAI's, Financial Times, Amazon, Alexa, Investors, WVV, Google Ventures, Entrepreneurs, Thomson Locations: Silicon, Jarvis, GPT, Cognosys, San Francisco, Palo Alto

☆ A Bridge Explosion Rocked Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A vital bridge linking the occupied Crimean Peninsula to mainland Russia was attacked early this morning, killing two people and forcing its temporary closure. Rail service over the crossing, known as the Kerch Strait Bridge, resumed soon after the assault, but damage to the car lanes will likely complicate Russia’s efforts to resupply its troops in southern Ukraine. Ukrainian officials celebrated the assault, which Russia said was carried out by maritime drones, but declined to officially take credit. Initial reports suggested that today’s explosions were far less severe than a similar attack in October. Kremlin officials insisted that the decision was not connected with the attack.

Persons: month’s, Wagner Organizations: Rail Locations: Crimean, Russia, Kerch, Ukraine, Moscow

☆ One of Russia's most senior generals in Ukraine said he was fired for questioning the Kremlin's war management, and accused his bosses of backstabbing his men and 'decapitating' the army
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A top Russian general in Ukraine is accusing the Kremlin of "decapitating" the war effort. Maj. Gen. Ivan Popov said he was giving honest feedback to his bosses, and was immediately fired. In his voice note, Popov said he was faced with the choice of either telling his bosses what they wanted to hear or to "call a spade a spade." As of Wednesday evening, neither the Russian state media nor the Defense Ministry has commented on Popov's remarks, whether he has been fired, or on the circumstances of such a dismissal. Gurulyov, the state duma member who published Popov's voice note, confirmed to Russian state TV on Wednesday that Tsokov was killed.

Persons: Ivan Popov, Popov, Andrey Gurulev, Valery Gerasimov, vilely, Popov's, Oleg Tsokov, Tsokov, Sergei Surovikin, Wagner, Gerasimov, Surovikin, Andrei Kartapolov Organizations: Kremlin, Service, Defense, Arms Army, Telegram, duma, CNN, Defense Ministry, Russia's Defense Ministry, Reuters, Kyiv's, Russia's, Army, The New York Times, Times Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia, Russia, Balakliya, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Berdiansk

CNN —A senior Russian general in command of forces in occupied southern Ukraine says he was suddenly dismissed from his post after accusing Moscow’s Defense Ministry leadership of betraying his troops by not providing sufficient support. Gen. Ivan Popov was the commander of the 58th Combined Arms Army, which has been engaged in heavy fighting in the Zaporizhzhia region. He is one of the most senior officers to have taken part in the bloody Russian campaign in Ukraine. The recording was posted on the messaging app by Andrey Gurulev, a member of the Russian Parliament and former deputy commander of the Southern Military District. Another Russian commander, Gen. Sergey Surovikin, who has not been seen in public since the failed Wagner-led rebellion last month, is “resting,” a Russian lawmaker said Wednesday.

Persons: CNN —, Ivan Popov, Popov, Andrey Gurulev, ” Popov, “, Sergei Shoigu “, vilely, –, Voyenniy Osvedomitel, Oleg Tsokov, ”, Valery Gerasimov, ISW, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s, Sergey Surovikin, Surovikin Organizations: CNN, Moscow’s Defense Ministry, Arms Army, Telegram, Southern Military District, ”, Kremlin, Combined, Army, British Storm, 58th Combined Army, Ukrainian, Russian Defense Ministry Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia, “, Berdyansk, Washington, Zaporizhia –

☆ Live updates: Russia's war in Ukraine, upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Images from amateur Russian trainspotting websites appear to show Putin's train. The train is painted to look like an ordinary Russian Railways train. Among the parts of the train detailed is car number 021-78630, with a gym and spa for Putin, according to the Dossier Center. The Dossier Center is backed by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an exiled former Russian oil tycoon turned Kremlin critic. A glossy brochure made by Zircon itself shows a luxurious gym and spa on wheels designed for Putin, the Dossier Center says.

Persons: Vladimir Putin’s, ”, “, Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Zircon Organizations: Russian Railways, CNN, Transportation Administration, Kremlin, Süddeutsche Zeitung, NDR, WDR, Service Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Mykolaiv, Moscow, London

A glossy brochure made by Zircon itself shows a luxurious gym and spa on wheels designed for Putin, the Dossier Center says. The room itself, documents from the Dossier Center suggest, is outfitted to help prevent the use of listening devices. The train is painted to look like an ordinary Russian Railways train. “There is a ghost train on the railways of our country,” one trainspotter wrote alongside an image of what appears to be Putin’s train he posted on rutrain.com. It is through the image of those domes that we know that Putin’s train carries the ordinary external markings of a Russian train.

Persons: Vladimir Putin’s, ”, “, Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Zircon, –, Dmitry Pegov, Oleg Klimentiev, ” Pegov, Oleg Ateistovich, ” CNN’s, Gleb Karakulov, Karakulov, ” Karakulov, trainspotter, trainspotters, Abbas Gallyamov, ” Gallyamov, Putin's, Gallyamov, Wagner, It’s Organizations: CNN, Transportation Administration, Kremlin, Süddeutsche Zeitung, NDR, WDR, Service, Russian Railways, “, Dossier, Zircon Service, Federal Security Service, FSO Locations: Ukraine, Mykolaiv, Moscow, London, Russian, Russia, Valdai, St . Petersburg, Kerch, Crimea, Israel

☆ Opinion: Welcome to the ‘looking-glass’ world of Putin’s Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Opinion Daniel Treisman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Welcome to the weird, through-the-looking-glass world of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, where everything is its opposite and almost nothing is what it seems. That may hold as well for the still-murky fate of last month’s mutineer, Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner group. Daniel TreismanWorse yet for the Kremlin, Prigozhin’s claim — coming from a diehard nationalist — will seem quite believable to many Russians. In this looking-glass world, the president has no time for politics. After the war started, Navalny offered a 15-point program for ending it and rebuilding a democratic Russia.

Persons: Daniel Treisman, “, ”, Vladimir Putin’s, mutineer, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner, Alexander Lukashenko, Dmitry Peskov, Peskov, Prigozhin, Putin, Alexey Navalny, Alexander Zemlianichenko, Orwell, Vladimir Kara, Murza, Emmanuel Macron, Navalny, Angela Merkel Organizations: University of California, CNN, Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, Russian, Putin, Kremlin, Twitter, Facebook Locations: Los Angeles, Moscow, Belarus, Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Belarusian, Minsk, St . Petersburg, Kremlin, Russian, Melekhovo, Vladimir, Russia, Kara, Rostov, Sochi, Ukraine, Dagestan, Crimea, “

☆ German firm sees U.S. getting lion's share of 100 bln euro military fund
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Alexander Hübner | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Wiegand called on the government to use the 100 billion euro fund not only to plug short-term gaps in the German military's inventories but also to help develop technologies of the future. Renk, formerly a subsidiary of Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE), is global leader in the production of gear boxes for tanks including the Leopard 2. The company, situated in the Bavarian town of Augsburg, makes about 70% of its sales from gear boxes for tanks and navy ships, the rest with gear boxes for civilian purposes such as compressors. Renk has booked orders totalling of 3.9 billion euros ($4.3 billion), including framework contracts, according to the CEO. Bankers estimate Renk's value to be around 2.5 billion euros in case of an IPO.

Persons: Berlin, Susanne Wiegand, embargoed, Wiegand, Triton, Renk, Alexander Hübner, Sabine Siebold, Rachel More, David Holmes Organizations: Renk, Volkswagen, VW, Bankers, Thomson Locations: MUNICH, U.S, Munich, Berlin, Germany, Bavarian, Augsburg

CNN —Mass shootings, like the ones that occurred Monday in Philadelphia and Fort Worth, Texas – and over the weekend in Baltimore — are not uncommon around the Fourth of July. The holiday has accounted for the most mass shootings of any other days of the year in nearly a decade, according to a CNN analysis of the Gun Violence Archive’s mass shooting data since 2014. So far, there have been at least 10 mass shootings on July 4 and 5, according to GVA. Summer days overall have higher numbers of mass shootings than other times of the year, according to CNN’s analysis. Of the top 10 calendar days with the highest number of mass shootings since 2014, all but one — New Year’s Day — was in June, July or August.

Persons: David Laughlin, WEWS, Angie Willhite, Cassondra Fovel, —, Leslie Parson Organizations: CNN, Mason, Community Center, WEWS, Akron Police Department, Sheriff’s, Twitter, Shreveport Police, WILX, Hayward Police, Metropolitan Police Locations: Philadelphia, Fort Worth , Texas, Baltimore, GVA, Akron , Ohio, Edgewood , Maryland, Harr, Edgewood, Harford, Shreveport , Louisiana, Lansing , Michigan, Hayward , California, Washington

☆ Twitter is facing a $700,000 lawsuit over unpaid bills for work including clearing out its Australian office and fitting-out its Singapore location
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An Australian project management company is suing Twitter for around $700,000 of unpaid bills. That includes work fitting-out Twitter's Singapore office, and clearing out its Australian one. Twitter is facing another lawsuit accusing it of not paying bills — including for work clearing out the company's Australian office. That's a week before its first round of mass layoffs affected the Singapore office, Insider previously reported. The London office has already been involved in another lawsuit, as the landlord — King Charles III's Crown Estate — accused Twitter of failing to pay rent.

Persons: Elon Musk's, —, Elon Musk, That's, Musk, Kali Hays, — King Charles III's, Twitter Organizations: Twitter, Morning, Northern District of, Reuters, Elon, Sydney Morning Herald, Musk's, Denver Business Locations: Australian, Singapore, Northern District, Northern District of California, Australia, London, Dublin, Boulder , Colorado, Denver

☆ Republican senator challenges Teamster president to a 'MMA fight for charity' after the union boss told him 'you know where to find me
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin challenged a union boss to a MMA fight for charity. "An attention-seeking union Teamster boss is trying to be punchy after our Senate hearing. MMA fight for charity of our choice," Mullin wrote on his official Twitter account. An attention-seeking union Teamster boss is trying to be punchy after our Senate hearing. MMA fight for charity of our choice.

Persons: Sen, Markwayne Mullin, Sean O'Brien, O'Brien, Mullin, —, Republican Sen, — Markwayne Mullin, James P, Hoffa, Jimmy Hoffa, Michael Avenatti, Avenatti, Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump Jr, Bernie Sanders, Sanders Organizations: Service, Republican, Oklahoma, Monday, Teamster Union, National Wrestling Hall of Fame, Teamsters, Health, Education, Labor, Pensions, Tulsa World Locations: Tulsa, Tulsa , Oklahoma, Oklahoma

Image Mr. Prigozhin and President Vladimir Putin at one of Mr. Prigozhin’s factories in St. Petersburg in 2010. Mr. Prigozhin accused the Russian military of attacking his forces, vowed to retaliate, on Friday. In an earlier videotaped speech, Mr. Prigozhin did not explicitly impugn Mr. Putin, instead casting him as a leader being misled by his officials. But, during the battle for Bakhmut, Mr. Prigozhin also emerged as a populist political figure, excoriating Russia’s military leadership for corruption. Others theorized that the Kremlin had orchestrated Mr. Prigozhin’s tirades against Mr. Shoigu, the defense minister, to deflect blame from Mr. Putin himself.

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☆ Moscow makes bizarre claim that the US is planning bio-warfare against Russian troops in Ukraine as fears of disease grow after dam destruction
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The outlandish claim comes amid health concerns after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine. The bizarre claim comes after the destruction of a major dam near Kherson caused flooding along the Dnieper River in southern Ukraine earlier this month. "When bitten, mosquitoes can infect military personnel with a dangerous infection, such as malaria," he said. Alex Babenko/Getty ImagesWhile the bizarre claim appears to have little basis, the dam's destruction has caused fears over subsequent disease and health concerns. A military partisan movement said the Russian army has recently suffered a cholera outbreak after the destruction of the dam, Newsweek reported.

Persons: Igor Kirillov, —, Max Seddon, Kirillov, " Seddon, didn't, Alex Babenko, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Organizations: Kremlin, Service, Chemical Protection Troops, Ukraine, Financial Times, White, Yahoo News, Metro, Politico, Newsweek, WHO Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Russia, Moscow, Kyiv, Kherson, West, Nova

☆ Top Russian generals beg Wagner to 'stop' the apparent mutiny led by Prigozhin, saying 'God forbid we have a civil war'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Russian generals are calling out Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, asking for troops to remain calm. The testimonial videos from the generals come after Prigozhin called for "payback" on Russian forces. On Friday, two top Russian generals appeared solemnly in front of similar beige walls, urging Wagner forces to focus their energy on combating Ukrainian forces, instead of Russia's army. The videos were published hours after Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin called for "payback" against Russia, accusing the Kremlin of launching missile attacks against his troops. The latest escalation in the feud, stemming from March, comes after Prigozhin claimed that Russian troops attacked Wagner group positions with missile strikes.

Persons: Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, —, Yevgeny Prigozhin's, Sergei Surovikin, Vladimir Alekseyev, Alekseyev, Samuel Bendett, Prigozhin — Organizations: Service, Wagner Group, Russia, Kremlin, Times, Center for Naval Analyses, Wagner, Russia's, Reuters, Russia's Defense Ministry Locations: Russia, Russian

☆ Putin vows to punish those involved in mutiny, accuses them of treason
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Christine Wang | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a statement following talks with Algeria's President at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 15, 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to punish everyone involved in the "armed rebellion" and accused them of treason. His comments come after Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the mercenary Wagner Group, accused the Kremlin of deliberately bombing Wagner troops. He characterized the unprovoked war in Ukraine as a struggle for Russia's future, an effort that Putin said requires unity among its forces. The Russian leader said, "I repeat, any internal turmoil is a deadly threat to our statehood, to us as a nation."

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner, Prigozhin's Organizations: Kremlin, Wagner Group, Russia's Ministry of Defense Locations: Moscow, Ukraine

☆ 'No sane investor' could be fooled by Putin's charade of optimism for Russia's economy, researcher says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Jennifer Sor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Putin's show of Russia's economic strength won't fool any "sane investor," Carnegie scholar Alexandra Prokopenko said. She pointed to Russia's growing budget deficit and labor shortage as its war on Ukraine drags on. Experts have warned of trouble for Russia's economy as war and sanctions bite into the nation's finances. GDP could grow as much as 2% this year, Putin estimated, adding that the nation's military spending had only resulted in a "small" budget deficit so far. The Kremlin's official statistics also give a misleading view of Russia's economy, she said.

Persons: Alexandra Prokopenko, —, Vladimir Putin, Putin, Prokopenko, it's, SPIEF Organizations: Carnegie, Service, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Central Bank of Russia, St ., Economic, Carnegie Endowment, International, Defense Ministry, Yale Locations: Ukraine, St, St . Petersburg, Russian

The target was Aleksandr Poteyev, a former Russian intelligence officer who disclosed information that led to a yearslong F.B.I. investigation that in 2010 ensnared 11 spies living under deep cover in suburbs and cities along the East Coast. In keeping with an Obama administration effort to reset relations, a deal was reached that sought to ease tensions: Ten of the 11 spies were arrested and expelled to Russia. According to Mr. Walton’s book, a Kremlin official asserted that a hit man, or a Mercader, would almost certainly hunt down Mr. Poteyev. Based on interviews with two American intelligence officials, Mr. Walton concluded the operation was the beginning of “a modern-day Mercader” sent to assassinate Mr. Poteyev.

Persons: Aleksandr Poteyev, Obama, Sergei V, Mr, Poteyev, Brown, Calder Walton, Walton’s, Ramón, Joseph Stalin’s, Leon Trotsky’s, Walton, Mercader ”, Grigory Mairanovsky Organizations: Intelligence, Harvard, The New York Times, Kremlin Locations: Russian, East Coast, Russia, Moscow, Britain, Mexico City, S.V.R

☆ Putin is scared of punishing Prigozhin in case the Wagner chief turns against him, says ex-Kremlin official
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Speculation is circulating about why Putin isn't punishing Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. Prigozhin is increasingly brazen in his criticism of Russian military leaders. Putin needs the support of nationalist hardliners like Prigozhin. The Wagner chief's attacks have prompted speculation he may even be planning a coup against Putin. In comments to The Washington Post, Abbas Gallyamov, a political analyst and former Kremlin speechwriter, said that Putin couldn't afford to alienate hardline nationalists such as Prigozhin.

Persons: Putin, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, —, Vladimir Putin, who've, Abbas Gallyamov, Gallyamov, Putin hasn't Organizations: Service, Wagner Group, Kremlin, Washington Post, Reuters, Ukraine, Russian Interior Ministry Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Russia

☆ Russia's defense ministry is pressuring volunteer brigades fighting in Ukraine to fall under its command, but at least one is resisting
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia's MOD said Tuesday it signed contracts with 4 detachments and 3 brigades of volunteers. It came after the MOD announced last week that Russian "volunteer" groups fighting in Ukraine would be required to sign contracts with the country's defense ministry. The move was widely seen as an effort to bring the Wagner Group under official military control, the BBC reported. Wagner group head Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Sunday that he received an order from Russia's defense ministry to bring his group under its command. The Wagner group — which sent tens of thousands of mercenary fighters and convicts to fight in Ukraine — and Russia's defense ministry have been involved in an escalating public feud.

Persons: It's, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, —, Vladimir Alekseev, Prigozhin, Sergei Shoigu, Sergey Surovikin, Vladimir Putin Organizations: MOD, Service, Ministry of Defense, Kremlin Wagner, Volunteer Assault Corps, Wagner Group, BBC, Russian MOD, Washington DC, for, Ukraine's, Kremlin, Washington Locations: Ukraine, Russian, Bakhmut

[1/3] German parliamentary group co-leaders of Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla attend a plenary session of the lower house of parliament, Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany May 25, 2023. In France, the far-right has become a stronger rival at the ballot box, while in Italy and Sweden, they are now are in government. Germany's domestic spy agency has branded the AfD's youth wing "extremist", saying it propagated "a racial concept of society". Some AfD initiatives have won backing from mainstream voters on the more local level. Wolfgang Buechner, a Scholz government spokesman, said he was confident the coalition could whittle away at AfD support.

Persons: Alice Weidel, Tino Chrupalla, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's, Stefan Marschall, Michael Kretschmer, Friederich Merz, Nancy Faeser, Marc Debus, Matthias Grahl, Wolfgang Buechner, Scholz, whittle, Sarah Marsh, Andreas Rinke, Madeline Chambers, Edmund Blair Organizations: Bundestag, REUTERS, Government, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social, University of Duesseldorf, Christian Democratic Union, CDU, Greens, Scholz's, Mannheim University, Thomson Locations: Germany, Berlin, BERLIN, Scholz's, Europe, France, Italy, Sweden, Nazi, Russia, Ukraine, Germany's, Saxony, Thueringen, Brandenburg, Bautzen

☆ Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who spent months on the ground in Bakhmut, said the Kremlin's claims about inflicting heavy losses on Ukraine are 'wild and absurd science fiction'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Wagner Company leader Yevgeny Prigozhin scoffed at the Kremlin's reports of big wins in Ukraine. He dismissed the tally as "wild and absurd science fiction," further antagonizing the Kremlin. But in a Monday statement from his press service, Prigozhin dismissed the Kremlin's tally as "wild and absurd science fiction." "Therefore, I believe that this is simply wild and absurd science fiction," said Prigozhin. Ukraine's and Russia's Defense Ministries did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin scoffed, —, Yevgeny Prigozhin, he's, Prigozhin, Sergei Shoigu, Shoigu, Valery Gerasimov Organizations: Service, Leopard, Wagner Group, Kremlin, Russia's Defense Locations: Ukraine, Moscow, Russia, Russian, Bakhmut, Donetsk, Germany, France, Shoigu

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