Zelensky Confirms He Met With Russian Billionaire Abramovich in Kyiv – The Moscow Times

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  1. Zelensky Confirms He Met With Russian Billionaire Abramovich in Kyiv  The Moscow Times
  2. What Putin’s rejection of Ukraine’s call for talks means for efforts to end Russia’s war  PBS
  3. Soldiers, not talks will decide Russia's war in Ukraine, Lavrov says  Euronews.com
  4. Zelenskyy used Abramovich to send message to Putin about peace talks  Financial Times
  5. Explained: Roman Abramovich's Behind-the-Scenes Role in Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks  The Moscow Times
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‘Extreme fear’ among immigrants as backlash sweeps South Africa

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African migrants say legal status offers little protection as rallies against illegal immigration gain momentum

African migrants in South Africa say they are living in fear after a series of marches calling for illegal immigrants to leave reignited long-held xenophobic sentiment in the country.

March & March, a campaign group at the forefront of recent protests, has given people living illegally in the country until 30 June to leave, without specifying what will happen to those who do not.

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Armenia’s pro-Europe party wins election and cements shift away from Russia

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Result strengthens PM Nikol Pashinyan’s drive for deeper integration with Europe despite warnings from Moscow

Armenia’s ruling pro-Europe party has won parliamentary elections, confirming the country’s pivot towards Europe and away from its traditional ally, Russia.

Final results in the small South Caucasus country showed the prime minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party securing a slim majority, while the Strong Armenia alliance, led by the Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan, won 25% of the seats in parliament.

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Japanese city shuts down nearly 100 schools after unprecedented bear sighting

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Police and hunters in Utsunomiya, 100km north of the capital, resume their search for animal that is not usually seen so close to Tokyo

A city in Japan has closed all its 94 primary and secondary schools after a bear was spotted in the municipality for the first time.

Officials in Utsunomiya, a city of half a million people about 100km (62 miles) north of Tokyo, took action after a medium-sized black bear – estimated to be about one-metre-long – was seen near a park in the city on Saturday. The bear was spotted again on CCTV running just in front of two startled young men in the city centre, in the early hours of Sunday.

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A ‘Miraculous Transformation’: How Kim Jong-un Fortified North Korea – The New York Times

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  1. A ‘Miraculous Transformation’: How Kim Jong-un Fortified North Korea  The New York Times
  2. The World’s Most Surprising Economic Success Story Is…North Korea  WSJ
  3. Kim Jong Un is enjoying his new nuclear power  New Statesman
  4. How China keeps North Korea's economy alive  DW.com
  5. Kim Jong-un has been astute at dealing with bigger powers  The Times
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‘What if all cockroaches came together?’ The youth movement threatening to shake up India’s politics

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Cockroach Janta party began as online joke but is growing into one of the most unexpected challenges to country’s rightwing government

The call out to the youth of India was simple: “Get ready to swarm the streets of Delhi with peaceful and loving dissent.” They came in their thousands.

The weekend marked the first public protest of the Cockroach Janta party (CJP), a movement that began as an online joke, but which has swiftly grown into one of the most unexpected challenges to the indomitable power of the country’s rightwing Narendra Modi government – driven by millions of discontented and disillusioned young people.

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