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...Niger is the third post-coup country to expel French troops, along with Mali and Burkina Faso, and to strengthen military ties with Moscow, including with Africa Corps, the new name for the Wagner Group...
...The dinner with Hunt and former chancellors Sajid Javid, Lord Philip Hammond and Lord Norman Lamont was won by Conservative donors Selva and Tharshiny Pankaj....
...In just this way, David Nicholls’ new novel You Are Here begins with seemingly artless simplicity....
...Comparison might be made with American television writer David Milch’s remarkable memoir Life’s Work, just published in paperback....
...Reviewers compared him to Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and John Irving. But Hill is very much his own man. If The Nix is a tough act to follow, Wellness proves he’s got the chops....
...An aircraft said to be carrying notorious warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose Wagner group launched a failed mutiny in June, has crashed on a flight from Moscow to St Petersburg, according to Russian officials...
...Devermont said Wagner’s “predatory” offering was not the answer....
...The presence of Russia has been a growing Sahel feature, with the Wagner mercenary group, founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, embedded in the Central African Republic and Mali....
...Analysts say the Central African Republic probably lost its Agoa status because of its ties to the Wagner paramilitary group, designated a transnational criminal organisation by the US treasury and accused...
...Up to 2,000 Wagner mercenaries were beaten back in 2020 by a Turkish intervention in Libya, but Wagner still emerged with control of two of Libya’s main air bases....
...“I admire the hell out of him,” Biden said of Gershkovich as he spoke to reporters before leaving New York for Camp David on Friday. “We’re not giving up”....
...Veteran media lawyer David Hooper promises to reveal how the rich and powerful use the law to gag their critics....
...“They are not active managers, traditional stockpickers, moving into the active ETF space per se,” Lamont said....
...Additional help from Monique Mulima, Monica Lopez, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer....
...Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking by phone on Sunday with US president Joe Biden who was at his Camp David retreat, said: “Yesterday’s events exposed the weakness of Putin’s regime.”...
...Speaking on a Wagner-associated Telegram channel, Prigozhin characterised the coup as “a battle by the people of Niger against their colonisers”, and said Wagner would do a better job of restoring order...
...Additional help by Katie McMurran, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley....
...Christine Rice was a glowingly sung Brangäne, David Stout an impressively strong Kurwenal, and Matthew Rose a deeply considered, resonant King Marke....
...david.pilling@ft.com Letter in response to this article: EU carbon border tax smacks of neocolonialism / From Ruth Teitelbaum, New York, NY, US...
...In Mali, following a coup in 2021, the new regime expelled French troops and signed a contract with the Wagner mercenary group....
...David PillingWith Yevgeny Prigozhin threatening to step up Wagner’s African activities, could Sudan be a focus of attention? I began by asking Kholood to assess the state of the fighting....
...Wagner and Russia, he said, would seek to take advantage of a volatile situation....
...Government ‘underplayed’ Wagner | The UK government’s “completely unrealistic” approach to Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group over the past decade has made “it possible, if not probable” that it has continued...
...These privatisations “summed up the Thatcher years”, reckoned former Conservative chancellor Norman Lamont. Ten chancellors later, Jeremy Hunt wants “to get Sid investing again”....
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