EU sanctions ‘Dr. Evil’: Russian prison medic exposed for torturing Ukrainian POWs

EU sanctions ‘Dr. Evil’: Russian prison medic exposed for torturing Ukrainian POWs The European Union has sanctioned Ilya Sorokin, a Russian prison medic infamously nicknamed “Dr. Evil” by Ukrainian prisoners of war, following revelations that he...

Russian morning attack kills 2 in Kherson, wounds 22

Consequences of the Russian attack in Kherson, October 24, 2025Kherson Oblast Military Administration The barrage began around 7:30 a.m., sparking fires in an apartment in a high-rise and a private home. The dead included a Kherson resident and a...

Thailand's Queen Sirikit dies aged 93: Nation in mourning as style icon mother of current monarch passes away peacefully in hospital

Thailand's Queen Mother Sirikit, who brought glamour and elegance to a postwar revival in the country's monarchy, has died aged 93. The Thai Royal Household Bureau said the Queen had been hospitalised since 2019 due to several illnesses and...

Ukrainian artillerymen capture Russian soldier who was supposed to lead Russians to Kostiantynivka

A Ukrainian soldier leading the prisoner of war away. Screenshot Ukrainian artillerymen from the 28th Mechanised Brigade have captured their first prisoner: a man who was supposed to lead Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups into the city of...

Russia Today is training a new generation of journalists — and other notes from Disinfo2025

Ljubljana — The counter-disinformation community gathered in Ljubljana, Slovenia, for an annual conference this month, toward the end of a year that has seen Meta scrap its fact-checking program, a vaccine skeptic sworn in as U.S. health...

Two Russian drones attack Kharkiv, injuring people

The aftermath of the attack on Kharkiv. Photo: Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration Russia has launched two drones on Kharkiv and the warhead of one has fallen close to student accommodation. Five people have suffered acute stress reactions....

Hundreds of Australians are heading to Russia's doorstep to have babies

Five years ago, Liz Tripodi nervously touched down in Georgia, on Russia's doorstep, to meet her newborn twins. At the time, she knew no-one else who had been there to have a baby. Now at least 400 Australian families have followed, turning the...

Obituaries 10.29.2025

Rita (Labrecque) Sylvester Rita (Labrecque) Sylvester died peacefully at her home in Irasburg on Thursday, October 23, 2025. After a health decline around the new year, a long stay in the hospital, and a short stay at a nursing home, she was...

Russian troops shell Kherson's Korabelnyi district with artillery, eight people injured

Russian forces launched an artillery strike on the Korabelnyi district of Kherson this morning, injuring eight people, including a 16-year-old boy. The Kherson Regional Military Administration reported this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform....

Putin ‘sways’ during speech raging at the US after months of health fears rumours

Vladimir Putin appeared to continuously sway as he sent a warning to the United States during an appearance in front of the media. The new footage will almost certainly raise further speculation around the health of the Russian despot.Rumours and...

Scott Badler: How a Rochester doctor's gamble helped shape a president

In February 1939, 22-year-old John F. Kennedy met with a doctor at the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Kennedy was suffering from intense intestinal pain and debilitating weight loss, but he was about to embark on a demanding trip to Europe. He...

Mad moment clubbers and security guards brawl as blind man pepper sprayed in the mouth

Chaos was sparked by alcohol(Image: Telegram) The wild moment club security and punters brawled in the streets has been caught on camera. The chaotic scenes took place at the Moscow Club – also known as Ruki Vverh – in Mitino, Russia, and it even...

Two women killed and 28 injured in Russian attack on Kherson

Ambulance. Stock photo: Getty Images Two people were killed and 28 were injured, including three children, in Russian strikes on the city of Kherson on 24 October. Another man was injured after Russian troops dropped explosives from a drone....

Russian Drones Hit Kherson High-Rise, Disrupt Rail Traffic Across Regions

Russian troops attacked several regions of Ukraine overnight with strike drones, hitting a residential high-rise in Kherson and disrupting railway traffic across multiple regions, according to official reports. The Kherson Regional Military...

Russia's would-be conscripts uneasy about army career

Heading towards a conscription centre in northern Moscow, 22-year-old paramedic Grigory braved drizzly weather to find out if he needed to complete his year-long military service. Though the tens of thousands of young men Russia calls up are...

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump says no Putin meeting until peace deal is within reach

Trump says he won't meet with Putin until he thinks there will be a peace deal Donald Trump has said he will not meet with Vladimir Putin until he thinks a deal to secure peace between Russia and Ukraine is in place. "You have to know that we're...

Russian Cultural Center in Beijing celebrates 15th anniversary at new address, new start, new home

Natalia Stepkina, minister-counsellor of the Russian Embassy in China and permanent representative to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Secretariat (center) and Tatiana Urzhumtseva, director of the Russian Cultural Center in Beijing (3rd from...

Chernobyl’s Mysterious Blue Dogs: Vandalism, Not Mutation

The mysterious blue dogs spotted in Chernobyl were deliberately painted by vandals, not affected by radiation, according to Russian veterinarian Mikhail Shelyakov. Shelyakov said that such a deep blue coloration could not occur naturally, even in...

Science NBC News DNA reveals the diseases that devastated Napoleon's doomed army

When Napoleon marched into Russia in 1812, he brought with him the largest army Europe had ever seen. When he limped back out, he’d met his match — not in muskets or cannon fire, but in microbes. Researchers who analyzed DNA from the teeth of...

DNA reveals the diseases that devastated Napoleon's doomed army

When Napoleon marched into Russia in 1812, he brought with him the largest army Europe had ever seen. When he limped back out, he’d met his match — not in muskets or cannon fire, but in microbes. Researchers who analyzed DNA from the teeth of...