Prigozhin arrives in Belarus
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the top of the Wagner mercenary group, arrived in Belarus yesterday, state media reported. The Russian authorities dropped legal fees in opposition to him and his fighters after he referred to as off an rebellion over the weekend.
Russian state media reported that the Wagner group will hand over navy gear to the Military, although there have been few particulars. It’s not clear what number of Wagner fighters — Prigozhin not too long ago stated there have been 25,000 — would comply with be positioned below the Russian Military’s command.
In Russia, President Vladimir Putin sought to exhibit management in a sequence of public appearances. Throughout a uncommon outside speech on the Kremlin grounds, he thanked Russia’s navy for having “primarily stopped a civil conflict.” He additionally vaguely warned of penalties for officers who helped Prigozhin enrich himself at Russia’s expense.
The deal: Russia had stated that it might grant amnesty to Prigozhin and his fighters. Underneath a deal brokered by President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus, Prigozhin will stay in exile there. Lukashenko stated that he provided Wagner group members an “deserted” navy base within the nation.
Will Individuals let Biden ease U.S.-China tensions?
Polls present that Individuals are beginning to consider China as they as soon as did in regards to the Soviet Union in the course of the Chilly Battle.
Between about 2000 and 2016, comparable shares of Individuals considered China favorably and unfavorably. That modified beginning in 2018, with Donald Trump’s anti-China language and commerce conflict. In the present day, most Individuals view China as both unfriendly or an enemy.
Souring opinion might make it more durable to fix ties and keep away from battle. The message Individuals are getting from their leaders about China is profoundly destructive. Public animosity, in flip, can incentivize leaders to talk and act aggressively, a hawkishness that journalists then talk again to the general public.
Quotable: “The conception on the macro stage is that we’re actually in a severe competitors,” a professor who research worldwide relations and public opinion stated. “Now the general public has adopted. And it’s not like you may flip this ship round in a single day.”
A glimpse of U.S. life with out abortion entry
The U.S. territory of Guam within the western Pacific Ocean is 1000’s of miles from the closest state, and has no resident docs who carry out abortions. Now, a U.S. courtroom ruling might make in-person physician visits a requirement to acquire abortion capsules, successfully slicing off the one authorized method for many residents to finish pregnancies.
The island might quickly grow to be an excessive instance of what life below a near-total abortion ban would appear like. Greater than a dozen states have already put such bans in place because the Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade a yr in the past.
However that ruling led to a seismic shift in public opinion: For the primary time, polls present that the majority Individuals say abortion is “morally acceptable,” imagine the legal guidelines are too strict and usually tend to establish, within the language of polls, as “pro-choice.”
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The place generations have seen a chic countryside in Eire, ecologists see a man-made desert, cleared of most native species by close-grazing sheep that usually pull grasses out by the roots. Now, a “rewilding” motion is attempting to revive that biodiversity.
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A small however rising variety of corporations within the U.S. are devoted to size-inclusive journey, typically concentrating on their providers completely to girls. The excursions value about the identical as different group journeys. Members know that their companions perceive their joys and their challenges, and so they additionally know that occasions and meals have been deliberate with accessibility in thoughts.
“I gained weight in the course of the pandemic, and I had been nervous about going overseas,” one traveler stated. As a substitute of being anxious that folks could be irritated by “that one fats girl on the journey,” she knew that she’d be with individuals who accepted her.
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