MUMBAI, India (AP) — Krystyna Pyszková of the Czech Republic was crowned Miss World at a glittering contest held in India on Saturday night. Yasmina Zaytoun of Lebanon was the first runner-up among 112 contestants in the competition held in Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital. “Being crowned Miss World is a dream come true. […]
The Russia-controlled “Supreme Court of the Donetsk People’s Republic” has sentenced 33 Ukrainian servicemen from the 36th Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Navy and the 17th Tank Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to 27 to 29 years in a maximum security colony. Source: Radio Liberty; Russian Prosecutor General’s Office; Investigative Committee of the […]
Nearly 10,000 companies with foreign involvement exited Russia in 2022 and the first 10 months of 2023. But the number of firms in Russia with co-owners from China and former Soviet republics has increased sharply. Russia is targeting new markets in the east following sweeping Western sanctions over the invasion. Western companies have been leaving […]
A student opened fire on Thursday at a university in Prague, killing at least 14 people and injuring more than 20, officials said. The incident marks the Czech Republic’s worst mass shooting. The bloodshed took place in the philosophy department building of Charles University, where the gunman was a student, Prague Police Chief Martin Vondrasek […]