CNN — The US Treasury Department on Thursday designated the Wagner Group, a Russian private mercenary organization heavily involved in the war in Ukraine, as a significant transnational criminal organization, and imposed a slew of sanctions on a transnational network that supports it. The US Department of State concurrently announced a number of sanctions meant…
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Russian intelligence agents believed to have directed White supremacists to carry out bombing campaign in Spain, US officials say | CNN Politics
CNN — US officials believe that Russian intelligence officers directed a Russian White supremacist group to carry out a letter-bombing campaign that rocked Madrid late last year, targeting the prime minister, the American and Ukrainian Embassies as well as the Spanish defense ministry, according to current and former US officials. Spanish authorities have yet to…
What’s Orthodox Christmas, and why is it within the highlight this yr? | CNN
CNN — For a lot of the Western world, Christmas is widely known on December 25, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. But in a distinction that dates again centuries, Orthodox Christians comply with the Julian calendar and mark the pageant on January 7 as a substitute. Orthodox Christmas – and the long-standing rift between…
The 12 months in sport: A fond farewell for some, a glimpse of the long run for others | CNN
CNN — An athlete, former jockey AP McCoy stated earlier this 12 months, is the one one that dies twice, such is the ache of strolling away from the intoxicating, all-consuming nature {of professional} sport. McCoy retired from his lengthy, adorned racing profession in 2015, and since then has needed to be taught, in his…