Wagner chief listed as a passenger on crashed aircraft
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founding father of the Wagner mercenary group who led a short mutiny in opposition to Russia’s army management in June, was listed as a passenger on a aircraft that crashed yesterday, killing all 10 individuals aboard, in accordance with Russian aviation authorities.
His destiny stays unclear. Several Russian information retailers reported, citing nameless sources, that he was certainly on the aircraft that crashed. But Grey Zone, a Telegram account related to the Wagner group, posted that it remained unsure whether or not Prigozhin was useless or alive. U.S. officers additionally stated they had been unable to substantiate his demise. Dmitri Utkin, Wagner’s most outstanding commander, was additionally on the passenger manifest.
Frustrated over the nation’s army management, Prigozhin instigated a brief revolt two months in the past along with his Wagner forces that posed a risk to President Vladimir Putin. Despite his actions, he appeared to maneuver about freely within the mutiny’s aftermath, together with assembly with the president on June 29.
A falling out: After years of supporting Putin, Prigozhin started to brazenly criticize the Russian authorities. Here’s what modified and when.
Elsewhere in Russia: Gen. Sergei Surovikin, a former commander of Russia’s forces in Ukraine believed to be near Prigozhin, was faraway from his submit as chief of the Russian Air Force. He reportedly knew in regards to the mutiny prematurely.
India lands on the moon
India has turn into the primary nation to succeed in the southern polar area of the moon in a single piece and solely the fourth nation ever to land on the moon.
A lander named Vikram and a rover named Pragyan landed safely yesterday on the floor of the moon. India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission will discover an space of the moon that has but to be visited and has frozen water that may very well be a useful resource for future missions.
The touchdown, which got here simply days after a failed Russian mission, was broadcast stay to tens of hundreds of thousands of individuals on Indian information channels. “This is an unprecedented moment,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated. “This is the moment for new, developing India.”
More lunar adventures: After Russia and India, Japan is about to launch its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, on Saturday, to orbit the moon and try a touchdown close to Shioli Crater.
Firefighters in Hawaii left the scene
More than eight hours earlier than a fireplace swept by means of the Hawaiian city of Lahaina on Aug. 8, a small brush hearth broke out on the sting of a residential neighborhood. Firefighters spent hours dousing the hearth and managed to comprise it. Then got here a key turning level: The firefighters left the scene to assist deal with calls from different places.
Within an hour, residents and authorities stated, the preliminary brush hearth flared up once more into what turned the deadliest U.S. wildfire in additional than a century, destroying practically all the things in its path. The demise toll has reached not less than 115, and greater than 2,000 buildings had been destroyed.
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Degrowth in Japan
In his guide, “Capital in the Anthropocene,” Kohei Saito argues that Japan ought to seize this second of demographic and financial challenges to reinvent itself by means of “degrowth communism.”
When Saito determined to jot down about it, his editors had been skeptical. Communism is unpopular in Japan. Economic progress is gospel. The guide could be a tricky promote. Except it wasn’t.
Since its launch in 2020, it has bought greater than 500,000 copies and is about to be translated into English. Saito has tapped into what he describes as a rising disillusionment in Japan with capitalism’s potential to unravel issues, whether or not it’s caring for the nation’s rising older inhabitants, stemming its rising inequality or mitigating local weather change.
