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OTTAWA, July 22 (Reuters) - The heaviest rain to hit the Atlantic Canadian province of Nova Scotia in more than 50 years triggered floods causing "unimaginable" damage, and four people are missing, including two children, officials said on Saturday. "We have a scary, significant situation," said Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, adding that at least seven bridges would have to be replaced or rebuilt. Authorities have declared a state of emergency in Halifax, the largest city in Nova Scotia, and four other regions. [1/7]Rescue personnel operates, in this video screengrab, in Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada, July 21, 2023. Early on Saturday, authorities in northern Nova Scotia ordered residents to evacuate amid fears that a dam near the St. Croix River system could breach.

Persons: Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, Houston, Justin Trudeau, Mike Savage, Ryan Snoddon, David Ljunggren, Daniel Wallis, Richard Chang, Paul Simao Organizations: OTTAWA, Atlantic, Nova, Nova Scotia Premier, Authorities, Rescue, Halifax, Environment, Canadian Broadcasting Corp, Thomson Locations: Atlantic Canadian, of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Toronto, Ottawa, Canada, United States, Halifax, Bedford , Nova Scotia, Houston, Environment Canada, St, Croix

☆ Russia's complex defenses are a brutal test for Ukrainian troops' close-quarters-combat skills
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Stavros Atlamazoglou | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A recent video shows Ukrainian troops using close-quarters-battle skills inside a Russian trench. While Ukrainian troops are making progress, they are not moving as quickly as Kyiv and its Western partners had hoped. The proximity of the fighting and Russia's complex defenses has put Ukrainian troops' close-quarters combat skills to a brutal test. Ukrainian frogmen clearing Russian trenchesA Ukrainian soldier in a Russian trench in a image from a video widely shared on social media in June. As the Ukrainian forces continue to push forward with the counteroffensive, close-quarters combat will be more frequent.

Persons: frogmen, John Spencer, Ritzau Scanpix, Marinka, Jacob Holmes, isn't, Anthony Jones, Eli Fieldboy, Stavros Atlamazoglou Organizations: Service, Russian, Ukrainian, Special Operations Forces of, Twitter, 73rd Naval Center of Special, Navy, West, Institute, Ukrainian National Guard, Getty, 73rd Naval Center, NATO, Green Berets, US, Special Forces Group, New York Times, US Army, Army's Delta Force, Navy's, Training, Hellenic Army, 575th Marine Battalion, Army, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins, School, International Locations: Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Kyiv, Russia, Special Operations Forces of Ukraine, Russian, Ukrainian, Odesa, AFP, Dnipro, Kherson, Bakhmut, Israeli, Johns

Insider spoke with influencer marketing experts and creators about sponsored content on Threads. There may not be hashtags yet on Instagram's new app Threads, but that's not stopping #ads from appearing all over the latest social-media platform. Within two days of Threads' launch on July 5 , certain brands and influencers started posting paid, sponsored content. She's since posted more sponsored content to Threads. Some creators, like travel creator Jessica Ufuoma, are turning down sponsored content requests from brands for this reason.

Persons: influencers, Adam Rose, Kristen Bousquet, I've, Bousquet, Hulu, Krishna Subramanian, Amber Venz, Alessandro Bogliari, Ayomi Samaraweera, Meta, Rose, Brittany Mehciz, Hulu's, Thomas Walters, Ajai Guyot, Guyot, it's, Elon Musk, Ryan Detert, Matt Navarra, who's, what's, Elon, Navarra, Meta's, Instagram, Sooraj Saxena, he's, Sydney Bradley, Taryn Hicks, Jessica Ufuoma, collabs Organizations: She's, Brands, Meta, Creators, Hulu, Dollar, Amazon, Twitter, Sydney Locations: Europe

☆ Why celebrities are on strike: Not every actor makes Tom Cruise money
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

However, the BLS noted in the data that actors aren’t paid full-time year-round due to the nature of the job. Screen Actors Guild members and supporters on a picket line in Times Square in New York, US, on Friday, July 14, 2023. Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesBefore the contract between actors and movie studios officially expired this week, SAG-AFTRA members had negotiated specific minimum rates for performers. For example, an actor who worked on a television show for one week was paid a minimum of $3,756. According to Shaan Sharma, an actor and SAG-AFTRA board member, just 12.7% of SAG-AFTRA members qualify for the union’s health plan.

Persons: they’ve, Meryl Streep, Matt Damon, Fran Drescher, you’re, aren’t, Yuki Iwamura, Kellee Stewart, ”, “, Dwayne “, ” Johnson, Forbes, Johnson, Cruise, Tom Cruise, Barry Diller, ‘, ” Diller, “ I’m, Shaan Sharma, Rod McLachlan, it’s, ” McLachlan, Chris Pizzello, ” Stewart, Stewart, “ There’s, Bob Iger, ’, Iger, Netflix’s, Ted Sarandos, Greg Peters, “ Rather, AFTRA, Kevin Klowden, Klowden, Natasha Chen Organizations: CNN, SAG, Hollywood, Hollywood’s, Guild of America, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, BLS, Guild, Bloomberg, Getty, Forbes, Variety, CBS, Sunday, Paramount, Netflix, Twitter, Disney, CNBC, Walt Disney Studios, The Alliance, Television Producers, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Apple, Warner Bros, Milken Institute Locations: California, New York, Los Angeles, London, Australia, New Zealand

☆ Wildfires in Spain's La Palma island forces evacuations as heatwave grips Europe
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A view of a wildfire in La Palma, Spain, July 15, 2023 in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. 1-1-2 Canarias Via Twitter/Handout via REUTERSBARCELONA, July 15 (Reuters) - At least 2,000 people have been evacuated as a forest fire burned out of control in the Spanish island of La Palma, authorities said on Saturday, as Europe was gripped by a heatwave. Many parts of southern Spain saw scorching temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) last week and even higher temperatures are expected next week in Spain and across southern Europe. The fire in La Palma started in the early hours of Saturday morning in El Pinar de Puntagorda, a wooded area at the north of the island in the Canaries. It depends on whether we can bring these strong winds under control," Clavijo told reporters in La Palma.

Persons: Marcos Lorenzo, Fernando Clavijo, Clavijo, Graham Keeley, Clelia Oziel, Christina Fincher Organizations: Via Twitter, REUTERS, La Palma, Canaries, La, Thomson Locations: La Palma, Spain, REUTERS BARCELONA, Spanish, Europe, La, El Pinar de Puntagorda, Puntagorda, Tijarafe, Canary, Tenerife, Africa

☆ Forest fire in Spain's La Palma island forces evacuations
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] A view of a wildfire in La Palma, Spain, July 15, 2023 in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. 1-1-2 Canarias Via Twitter/Handout via REUTERSBARCELONA, July 15 (Reuters) - A forest fire in the Spanish island of La Palma has forced the evacuation of at least 500 people, authorities said on Saturday, in the first natural crisis on the island since a volcanic eruption on 2021. At least 11 houses were destroyed as the fire advanced, Fernando Clavijo, president of the Canary Islands said on Saturday. It depends on whether we can bring these strong winds under control," Clavijo told reporters in La Palma. Authorities in the island were seeking help from other islands in the archipelago, such as Gomera and Tenerife.

Persons: Fernando Clavijo, Clavijo, Graham Keeley, Clelia Organizations: Via Twitter, REUTERS, La, Authorities, Thomson Locations: La Palma, Spain, REUTERS BARCELONA, Spanish, El Pinar de Puntagorda, Africa, Tenerife

☆ The 'Barbie' movie has been banned and censored across 2 Southeast Asian countries, and it shows how the territorial dispute over the South China Sea is becoming intense
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Vietnam and the Philippines are up in arms over a controversial map in the upcoming "Barbie" movie. The map seemingly depicts China's claim over a disputed part of the hotly contested South China Sea. A hotly contested territorial claim has moved away from the realm of politics and landed smack-dab in the middle of the upcoming "Barbie" movie promotions. Barbie is not the only movie to land in hot water over this disputed territoryBarbie is not the first movie to be banned in Vietnam over the territorial dispute. The South China Sea is a hotly contested waterway, with China, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam all staking competing claims.

Persons: Warner Bros, it's, Margot Robbie, Barbie, Tuoi, Warner, Blackpink, Tuoi Tre Organizations: Warner, Warner Bros, Philippine, Philippine Star, South China, Netflix, Eurasia Group Locations: Vietnam, Philippines, China, South, Beijing, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, The Hague, Asia

☆ You can already buy fake Threads followers for Instagram's Twitter clone
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

You can already buy followers for Instagram's Threads. Insider viewed several websites offering to sell followers for Threads accounts. Screengrab/FameSavyAccording to the influencer-marketing platform HypeAuditor, on average, about 13.8% of influencers' Instagram followers are categorized as "suspicious" accounts. To start, followers aren't as prominently showcased on Threads as they are on Instagram (or Twitter, for that matter). Buying an influx of spam followers on Threads could very well do nothing to help an account grow or find success as a creator.

Persons: Instagram, aren't, Adam Mosseri, Meta

☆ Pentagon says it's almost like Russia's on a 'mission to protect ISIS leaders' after its fighter jets harassed US Reaper drones that took out a top terrorist
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Russian fighter jets harassed several US military drones operating above Syria on Friday. Those same American MQ-9 Reaper drones later went on to kill an ISIS leader during an operation. A Pentagon official said Monday it's almost like Moscow is "on a mission to protect ISIS leaders." On Wednesday, Russian Su-35s dropped parachute flares and engaged afterburners in front of three Reaper drones. The following day, Russian Su-34 and Su-35 fighter jets dropped flares and flew "dangerously close" to an unspecified number of Reaper drones.

Persons: Alexus Grynkewich, Usamah, Michael, Erik, Kurilla, Assad, Sabrina Singh, Singh, CENTCOM, Russian Su, Grynkewich, Colin Kahl, Kahl Organizations: Pentagon, ISIS, Service, Russia, Islamic, NATO, US Air Forces Central Command, US Central Command, U.S, US Air Force, Russian, US, Dassault Rafale, Air Force, Washington Locations: Syria, Moscow, Wall, Silicon, Russia, Washington, Russian, Screengrab

☆ Heavy rains pound US Northeast, with more storms on the way
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

July 9 (Reuters) - Heavy rainstorms poured over parts of New York and Pennsylvania on Sunday, with first responders rescuing people stuck in vehicles along flooded roadways and with more wet weather on the way for the U.S. Northeast. "Significant flooding in Stony Point - homes and cars - and many people evacuated," he wrote. [1/2]Streets are flooded in Highland Falls, Orange County, U.S., in this video screengrab obtained from social media, July 9, 2023. Melissa Roberts/via REUTERS/File photoCentral Pennsylvania and southern New York bore the brunt of the rain on Sunday. Blocked roads in New York's Orange County, which is home to West Point, prevented rescue teams from reaching isolated people, the New York Times reported, citing a county emergency management official.

Persons: Mike Lawler, Bryan Jackson, screengrab, Melissa Roberts, Jackson, Brendan O'Brien, Daniel Trotta, Leslie Adler Organizations: U.S, Weather, Prediction, United States Military Academy, New York Times, Thomson Locations: New York, Pennsylvania, U.S ., . U.S, Hudson Valley, New York City, Stony Point, Hudson, Manhattan, Quakertown, Allentown, Canadian, Ontario, Highland Falls , Orange County , U.S, New England, Burlington , Vermont, West Point , New York, New York's Orange County, West, Chicago, Carlsbad , California

☆ Instagram's Threads had a splashy arrival, but creators say it's missing key features and the answer to a big question: Are we supposed to call them posts or threads?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Amanda Perelli | Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Instagram's new text-based app, Threads, hit phones on Wednesday evening, and the app had already reached 30 million sign-ups as of Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote. Here's what is missing from Instagram's new app, Threads, according to creators:There are no hashtags on the app yet. Per an official post from the Threads App account, you can just say "post." "We're committed to building support for ActivityPub, the protocol behind Mastodon, into this app," Mosseri said in a Threads post. Read more about Instagram's new app, Threads.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Lonnie Marts, Roberto Nickson, monetization, Adam Mosseri, Lauren Godwin, Mosseri, Avori Henderson, Per, Instagram, We're Organizations: Twitter, ActivityPub

“We were jumping like rabbits under mortar rounds and bombs.”When it got quieter, he and fellow soldier Slava fell asleep. In the presence of two Ukrainian soldiers, the three men described low morale in their trenches, disarray and the apparent expendability of some Russian forces. Mark Phillips/CNNHopes of exchangeThe men’s captors want them exchanged for Ukrainian soldiers held by the Russians, but they don’t have high hopes. When he saw the Ukrainian soldiers, he crawled away in fear and huddled with two soldiers. A Ukrainian soldier later explains that it’s difficult to hear what the Russian soldiers are saying during the gunfights.

Persons: ” Anton, “, Slava, let’s, ”, Anton, sobs, Mark Phillips, Storm Z, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, maiming, Volodymyr Zelensky, Sergei, ‘, ’, CNN “, ” Sergei, ” Slava Organizations: Eastern, Eastern Ukraine CNN, CNN, Ukrainian Third Assault Brigade, International Committee, Russian Ministry of Defense, “, Third Assault Brigade, Wagner PMC, Storm Z, Brigade, Ukrainian Armed Forces Locations: Eastern Ukraine, Russian, Bakhmut, “, Ukrainian, Ukraine, Russia, ”, Mariupol, Moscow, Kherson

☆ Hey Mark Zuckerberg, there's gotta be a more aesthetically pleasing way to display our Threads handles on Instagram
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

That long string of numbers now attached to our Instagram profile, however, is not. One bit of beef I have with the app, however, has its roots in how it's affected my Instagram account. Call me shallow, but that super long @ that's been added to my Instagram profile, right under my username? That said, this feels like a small quibble in the big scheme of things — the new Threads app is fun. And for now, I prefer it to a social media app that's prone to crashing, with an owner who's seen fit to impose a rate limit on how many tweets can be viewed.

Persons: Zuck, Meta, Jean Valjean's, Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg's, who's Organizations: Twitter, Meta

☆ The new Instagram Threads app was briefly accessible from desktop. Here's what the Twitter rival looks like.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Marta Biino | Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Meta's new Twitter rival Threads was accessible from desktop for a few hours on Wednesday. The launch for the app is set for July 6, but profiles were visible on browser before Meta shut down access. Instagram's new Threads app was briefly visible from desktop on Wednesday, before Meta limited access. Rumors about the app have been swirling for months, and the app appeared on app stores over the weekend, as well as for "pre-download" starting July 3. Zuckerberg's first post on the Threads platform reads: "Let's do this.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Adam Mosseri, Elon Musk, Zuckerberg's, Sydney Bradley Mosseri, We're, Meta execs, Marcos Mion, Alok, Becky Excell, Instagram Organizations: Meta, Twitter, Sydney, ActivityPub, Netflix, influencers Locations: Brazil

☆ Instagram's new app, Threads, launched early. Creators explain how it stacks up against Twitter, their favorite features, and what's missing.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Sydney Bradley | Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Instagram's new app, Threads, launched Wednesday, a day earlier than expected. Many creators and celebrities gained early access to the new text-based app this week. Insider spoke with five sources who were granted early access to Threads, including one who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The new Instagram Threads app was briefly accessible from desktop on Wednesday. Screengrab/Threads; Insider/Sydney BradleyAt Meta this week, staffers were busy recruiting influencers and celebrities to join the app via early access.

Persons: —, Lauren Godwin, Godwin, Avori Henderson, Lonnie Marts, Elon Musk, Roberto Nickson, Nickson, Sydney Bradley, Meta, Connor Franta, Gary Vaynerchuk —, Gary Vee —, Henderson, Adam Mosseri, Mosseri, Bluesky, We're, it's Organizations: Twitter, Meta, Sydney, ActivityPub Locations: influencers

☆ Zuck aims a killer blow at Musk outside the cage with Meta's new Threads Twitter clone
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Aside from surreal cage fight plans, Zuckerberg wants to displace Twitter with a clone called Threads. The timing is perfect: Twitter is in disarray and the Meta chief is ready to capitalize on the chaos. Zuckerberg is set to bring his Twitter killer, Threads, out into the wild this week, with pre-orders for the "text-based-conversation" service going live on Monday. What the new Threads app looks like. If Musk doesn't get Twitter back into shape soon, he'll be a loser in the virtual arena too.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, Elon, Sydney Bradley, Nick Bilton, Musk, He's, he'll Organizations: Elon, Twitter, Sydney, New York Times, mojo

☆ Ukraine reports 'particularly fruitful' few days in counteroffensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Dan Peleschuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"The last few days have been particularly fruitful," he said, without providing any details from the battlefield. On Monday, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said fighting had surged around the eastern city of Bakhmut, captured by Russian forces in May. She said the Ukrainian military had taken back 37.4 square kilometres (14.4 square miles) of territory overall in heavy fighting in the past week. He said the Ukrainian military was managing to hold back an attempted advance by Russian forces in the Lyman, Avdiivka and Marinka directions in eastern Ukraine. Russian shelling on Tuesday morning killed a man and a woman in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, the local prosecutor's office said.

Persons: Read, Oleksiy Danilov, Ukraine's, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Valeriy Shershen, Hanna Maliar, Andriy Kovalev, Avdiivka, Aleksandar Vasovic, Timothy Organizations: SIRKO TEAM, 225TH, Russian, National Security, Defence Council, Russia, Ukraine's Defense Forces, Ukraine's National Security, Defence, Twitter, Ukraine, Lyman, Reuters, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Russian, Northwest Bakhmut, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, KYIV, Ukrainian, Moscow, Bakhmut, Russia, Kherson

☆ Fact Check-Clip of cars falling from garage is movie footage shot in Cleveland, not France riots
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A clip of cars falling several stories from a parking garage and bursting into flames on impact shows the filming of a “Fast & Furious” movie in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2016, not footage captured during protests in France in July 2023. Social media users shared the video claiming the footage was filmed in France during riots following the killing of a teenager of North African descent by a police officer (here). Local outlet Fox 8 News shared a screengrab of the video in May 2016, reporting on the movie production happening in central Cleveland (here). A video embedded into an article published by the same local outlet shows behind-the-scenes footage of the clip in question (here). The footage shows filming of the “The Fate of the Furious” movie in 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Persons: cleveland.com, Read Organizations: Furious, Cleveland , Ohio . Local, Fox, Prospect, ., Reuters Locations: Cleveland , Ohio, France, North, Cleveland , Ohio ., Cleveland, Halle, Prospect

☆ Instagram's new Twitter rival 'Threads' appears to be showing up on the European Google Play app store
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Sydney Bradley | Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Now the Threads app has been spotted on the Google Play app store in Europe. After months of rumors, Instagram's Twitter rival may be hitting the app store soon. Over the weekend, several people spotted that a new app called "Threads" was listed on the Google Play app store for Android. A link to the desktop version of the Google Play app store appears to only be available in European countries, such as Italy, France, Spain, and Germany. The Threads app is currently listed on the Google Play app store in European countries.

Persons: Instagram, Alessandro Paluzzi, Alex Heath, Chris Cox, Oprah, Mark Zuckerberg, Adam Mosseri, Eric Wei, We've, Wei, Daniel Morgan, Sydney, Marta Biino Organizations: Instagram, Google, Morning, Twitter, Android, Meta, Synovus, Sydney Bradley Locations: Europe, Italian, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Meta

☆ Ukraine reports Russian attacks in east, progress in south
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Russian accounts of the front line said Moscow's forces had repelled Ukrainian attacks near villages ringing Bakhmut and in areas further south, particularly the strategic hilltop town of Vuhlear. "In addition, the enemy has started an attack in the Svatove area," she said, referring to a region of northeastern Ukraine where Russian forces have been active. Maliar reported "partial success" south of Bakhmut, taken in late May by Russian forces after months of fierce fighting. And on the southern front, where Ukrainian forces have recaptured several villages, Maliar said there had been "gradual advances" in two areas. Ukraine has also had to endure persistent Russian air attacks on Ukrainian cities, though the Kremlin denies attacking civilian targets.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Hanna Maliar, Maliar, General Oleksander Tarnavskiy, General Valery Zaluzhniy, Ron Popeski, Nick Starkov, Chizu Organizations: REUTERS, Ukrainian, Russian, Kremlin, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Kyiv, Bakhmut, Vuhlear, Odesa, Russia's, Avdiivka, Maryinka, Donetsk, Russia

☆ Nanterre shooting: More than 600 arrested as France sees third night of violence after 17-year-old shot dead by police
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Joshua Berlinger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The boy, Nahel, was shot dead during a traffic stop Tuesday morning in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. The officer said he fired his gun out of fear that the boy would run someone over with the car, according to Nanterre prosecutor Pascal Prache. He is currently facing a formal investigation for voluntary homicide and has been placed in preliminary detention, CNN affiliate BFMTV reported Thursday. This screengrab from video posted on Twitter shows the moment when police interacted with a 17-year-old teen during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb. Fires were set in the Paris suburb of Montreuil early Friday morning.

Persons: France CNN —, Pascal Prache, ”, Mounia, Prache, BFMTV, Stephane Rouppert, Nael, Emmanuel Macron, Nahel, Laurent, Franck Lienard, “, ” Lienard Organizations: France CNN, France, CNN, Twitter, Interior Ministry, BFMTV, French, country’s Foreign, RTL Locations: Nanterre, France, Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Roubaix, Marseille, Lille, Montreuil, Aubervilliers, ”

☆ Fact Check-Image of Joe Biden with three hands at podium is altered
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A third hand has been digitally added to an image of U.S. President Joe Biden standing at a podium. The screengrab was taken from the president’s address following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, where only two hands are visible. Alongside comments such as, “He is gone green screen im assuming,” the altered image shows Biden standing at a podium, with his two hands raised slightly above it, while a third hand can be seen pressed against the side of the podium. The circulating image also contains the text, “When you thought you’ve seen it all…” (here), (here) and (here). The original livestream shows the president slightly raising two hands above the podium.

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden, you’ve, Read Organizations: White, Reuters Locations: Ukraine

A screengrab from the website of U.S. company Extreme Networks shows Russian manager Sergey Gusakov. The IT equipment sold in Russia by Gusakov's company Vektor-T is assembled in China and contains U.S. microprocessors, according to the people familiar with the matter and photographs seen by Reuters. "These violations will lead to a heavy strike to the reputation of the Extreme company against the background of the war in Ukraine," the complaint said. The photographs obtained by Reuters of the insides of switches sold by DCN and Vektor-T clearly show one of each. "The U.S. technology proportion of DCN products is very small," he said.

Persons: Sergey Gusakov, Gusakov, haven't, Sergey Gusakov’s, spokespeople, DCN, Marvell, Lattice, David Gauthier, Aram Roston, Daniel Flynn Organizations: Marvell Technology Inc, Lattice Semiconductor Corp, Reuters, Handout, REUTERS, Extreme Networks Inc, U.S ., Extreme Networks, Extreme, CIS, China Information Technology Ltd, Marvell, Lattice, U.S, Thomson Locations: China, U.S, Russia, Ukraine, Soviet, Moscow, Gusakov, Kazakhstan, Russian, Oryol, Wilmington , DE, Hillsboro, Villars, Istanbul, Washington

☆ Live updates: Russia aims to regulate Wagner as Ukraine claims battlefield gains
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin speaks in this screengrab from a video released on June 24. The Western stakes in the Ukraine war rose significantly as a result. A mutinous weekend that saw mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin flagrantly mock the Kremlin before aborting his march on Moscow evoked Russia’s blood-soaked history of revolutions and coups. The Kremlin strongman seemed to blink at a military confrontation with Prigozhin’s Wagner Group fighters — in an act that might preserve his grip on power. There’s now no doubt that the war Putin unleashed to wipe Ukraine off the map poses an existential threat to his political survival.

Persons: Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin flagrantly, Prigozhin’s Wagner, —, Putin, There’s, Oz, Ukraine John Herbst, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, “ Putin, Prigozhin’s, Moscow’s, Read Organizations: Concord, Reuters, White, Kremlin, NATO Locations: Ukraine, Moscow, Europe, Belarus, Russian

☆ Special Report: US, Swedish prosecutors study graft complaint naming son of Turkey's Erdogan
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( David Gauthier-Villars | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +16 min

The proposed plan was detailed in communications and business documents seen by Reuters, as well as by a person familiar with the matter. A screengrab shows information about the AL-100K dashboard breathalyzer on the website of Swedish company Dignita Systems. Reuters was unable to confirm independently whether President Erdogan and his son Bilal were aware of, or had involvement in Dignita's alleged kickback scheme. Ibn Haldun University was founded by Turgev, a charity organization President Erdogan helped create in the 1990s, when he was mayor of Istanbul. In 2016, Italian prosecutors conducted a money-laundering probe into Bilal Erdogan on suspicion he had brought cash into the country without declaring it.

Persons: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Erdogan, Dignita, Bilal Erdogan, Anders Eriksson, Bilal, Dignita's, Scott Greytak, Ibn Haldun, Turgev, Erdogan's, Eriksson, Irfan Gunduz, Gunduz, Erdogan’s, " Eriksson, Bilal –, Bilal Erdogan –, – Dignita, Smart, Matthew Strausz, Anders, David Gauthier, Daniel Flynn Organizations: Reuters, Dignita Systems, Dignita's U.S, Turkish, U.S . Department of Justice, International U.S, DOJ, Smart, Apollo Global Management, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, Nordic, Swedish, Ibn Haldun University, Ibn, Dignita, Tugva, BMZ, Islamic, Smart Start, Thomson Locations: United States, Sweden, Swedish, U.S, Turkey, Washington, States, Texas, Ankara, Stockholm, Istanbul, Turkish, Tugva, Islamic State, Syria, Russia, American, Gunduz

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