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TOPSHOT - US Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the beginning of a meeting of the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force at the Justice Department in Washington, DC on September 4, 2024. The US indicted two employees of Russia's RT and imposed sanctions on top editors of the state-funded news outlet, accusing them of seeking to influence the 2024 US presidential election. Garland, chairing the meeting, said two Russia-based RT employees have been indicted in New York for money laundering and violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

US charges Russians over 2024 election interference

Russian journalists allegedly conspired to illegally send $10m to a US media company to inject hidden Russian government messaging in a campaign aimed at helping Trump reclaim the White House.

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Kim Jong-un, pictured with his daughter Ju-ae in 2019, has a passion for riding and Orlov Trotter horses in particular. Picture: The Times

Putin gifts Kim his favourite horses

The delivery of Orlov Trotters to the North Korean leader is a partial payment for artillery shells urgently needed for Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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Zelensky gives Putin bloody nose

Zelensky gives Putin bloody nose

The biggest drone strike on Moscow since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine deepens the crisis facing the Russian despot following Kyiv’s audacious counterpunch into Russia’s Kursk region.

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This handout photograph released by the Kursk Region Governov Alexei Smirnov in his Telegram channel shows damages in the town of Sudzha on August 6, 2024, caused by shelling from Ukranian forces in Russia's Kursk Region. Russia said on August 6, 2024 that it had repelled an attempted incursion by the Ukrainian army into the Kursk border region, after several operations of the same type claimed in recent months by a group of pro-kyiv fighters. According to the acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov, soldiers of the Ukrainian army carried out

Why Zelensky is gambling it all on Kursk

The plan is to force Moscow to shift troops from Ukraine resulting in the need to raise troop numbers with a general mobilisation which could, threateningly for Putin, cause splits in the army.

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