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The ministry said the Russian navy ship Admiral Tributs closely approached the U.S. destroyer, USS Chafee, after it ignored multiple warnings to leave the area. The U.S. warship ultimately changed course and left after making “an attempt to cross the Russian sea border” and the two ships had come within 66 yards of each other, according to the ministry. Russia and China had been conducting joint naval drills in Peter the Great Gulf, which the ministry said was designated as off limits, AP reported....

Distressing footage showed children leaping from the third floor of School No 175 in the city of Kazan, in western Russia, on Tuesday morning as gunshots rang out from inside the building. The one minute video, shot from a nearby building, recorded people running away from the building as bystanders in the distance watched the horror unfold. As the camera zoomed in on the school, two students jumped from a window on the third floor down onto the ground below in order to escape the shooter....

After COVID-19 infections and deaths began seeing a sharp increase in late September, Russian authorities attributed the surge to low vaccination rates among the country’s residents. By Tuesday, nearly 33 percent of Russia’s population of 146 million had gotten at least one dose of a COVID vaccine. Altogether, just 29 percent of Russia’s residents are fully vaccinated, the AP reported. ​​Friday marked the third straight day of daily COVID-19 deaths surpassing 900 in Russia, while Wednesday was the first day throughout the entire pandemic when deaths topped that benchmark as the country recorded 929 deaths....

“Highly dynamic Africa holds a special place in today’s decreasingly Western-centric world order, which explains the surge of interest in the region among many international partners,” Ambassador-at-Large Oleg Ozerov, who serves as head of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum, told Newsweek. “Russian leadership regards developing ties with the continent as a strategic foreign policy objective,” he added. Ozerov recalled Moscow’s still-influential anti-imperialist legacy across the continent that today consists of 54 countries and roughly 1....

Yevgeny Prigozhin, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the founder of the mercenary Wagner Group, announced on Thursday that the first batch of prisoners who participated in the war in Ukraine completed their six-month contracts and have received a pardon. According to independent Russian news outlet Agentstvo, one of the freed convicts is a veterinarian from St. Petersburg named Dmitry Karavaichik, who was handed a 17-year jail sentence in 2019 for producing and distributing amphetamine....

The Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in its update that Russia has lost 89,440 troops since the start of its invasion on February 24. With Ukraine’s estimate that around 500 Russian troops were being killed every day, the milestone of 90,000 is expected to be reached by the weekend. Newsweek has contacted the Russian defense ministry regarding Ukraine’s unverified figure which is higher than other international assessments....

On Thursday, Shoigu ordered the military to pull back troops who took part in the drills but said Russia should leave the weapons, which include tanks and heavy artillery, deployed in Western Russia for another military exercise later this year. Troops are expected to return to their bases by May 1, but it remains unclear how many troops will remain in the region. “Every year in Europe, the alliance conducts up to 40 major operational training events with a clear anti-Russian focus....

The man, who the outlet names as D. Razumilov, says that an anonymous English-language message was sent to a cryptocurrency app on his iPhone in 2017 urging him “don’t judge without trying.” The message was attached to 69 units of GayCoins, an obscure cryptocurrency. Razumilov is seeking over $15,000 in damages from Apple for allegedly “turning him gay.” He claims the company, which makes the iPhone, caused him “moral suffering and harm to mental health,” due to “manipulatively pushing me towards homosexuality....

Ngetich was leading Sunday’s 2015 Austin Martathon at the 23-mile mark when her body gave out. Rather than quit or accept a wheelchair, the Kenyan runner got on all fours and started to crawl toward the finish line. “You ran the bravest race and crawled the bravest crawl I have ever seen in my life,” race director John Conley told her afterward, via KHOU.com. “You have earned much honor, and I am going to adjust your prize money, so you get the same prize money you would have gotten if you were second....

Severe thunderstorms had already forced organizers of the 75-mile Südtirol Ultra Skyrace to stop the event 30 minutes earlier, but the unidentified entrant was between aid stations and unable to be notified. “The athletes held up at Antran, the Rifugio Punta Cervina and the Rifugio Kesselberg [aid stations],” organizers said in a statement on the race website. “Some athletes though were on their way between these spots and could not be reached by the track marshals....

The Queen Kornbread “The Snack” Jeté was forced to exit early due to an ankle injury and will no longer be in the race for America’s Next Drag Superstar crown. RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 14: Why was Kornbread “The Snack” Jeté disqualified? On Friday’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 14, the Queens heard a piece of upsetting news from RuPaul. At the show’s beginning, RuPaul gathered all the participants to inform them that their Los Angeles-based sister, Kornbread “The Snack” Jeté, had pulled out of the competition due to an ankle injury from the acting challenge last week....

Rupert Murdoch is nothing if not a gambler. He flies against conventional wisdom, and his daring usually pays off. A decade ago Hollywood scoffed when the Australian-born publishing magnate bought a string of television stations and called them a network. Today, Fox Broadcasting is threatening to turn the Big Three into the Big Four. Skeptics also looked askance at Sky Television, the money-losing British satellite service that helped drive Murdoch to the verge of bankruptcy....

The Windies have named a 13-man group for the three matches, the first of which takes place on Tuesday, with Jason Holder selected as captain ahead of regular T20 skipper Carlos Brathwaite. But they will be without Russell, after the team confirmed on Monday that the all-rounder was withdrawn from the squad “due to an adverse reaction he had to a medical procedure”. Despite that disappointment, the Windies will look to use the series to build towards the World Cup, explaining Holder’s leadership role....

Russell was named in the party for the Florida leg of the series subject to a fitness test after a left knee injury cut short his Cricket World Cup. However, the star all-rounder informed the Windies selectors he had been suffering with discomfort during the Global T20 tournament in Canada and was forced to withdraw. “It is not easy to the fill the shoes of someone like Andre Russell, who has dominated T20 cricket all over the world and helped West Indies win the ICC T20 World Cup on two occasions....

One of the latest companies to do so is Kings and Jaxs, a premium lifestyle brand that manufactures and distributes men’s underwear. The California-based company recently partnered with Oklahoma City Thunder point guard, Russell Westbrook, for a deal worth over $1 million. "Between our designer Rudy and myself, we have some 20 years of hands-on experience creating, developing and producing technical performance products,” said Frank Kashare, Chief Executive Officer of Kings and Jaxs....

“Chairman of the Executive Board, First Vice-President of the Russian Paralympic Committee Pavel Rozhkov has said the RPC and the IPC signed an arbitration agreement on August 11, 2016,” the report said on Thursday. “It has been submitted to the Court of Arbitration for Sports.” “Court hearings will take place on August 21, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro,” the report added. “The substantive provisions of the CAS ruling will be made public before midnight on August 22....

“India deeply appreciates Russia’s strong support for India. We hope that our cooperation will bring peace, prosperity and stability to the entire region,” wrote Singh. “Glad that a number of Agreements/Contracts/Protocols were signed pertaining to small arms and military cooperation.” Hours earlier, the Indian defense chief and his Russian counterpart, General Sergey Shoigu. held talks in New Delhi ahead of a scheduled Monday evening meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin....

Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Russian-appointed military-civilian regional administration, told Russian state-owned news agency Tass that it does not make sense for Russia to restore the Antonovsky Bridge, which has been targeted for weeks by Ukraine. “So far, no one is restoring the Antonovsky Bridge, because there is no point, there is no expediency,” he said. Stremousov said that the key bridge, as well as a bridge in Nova Kakhovka, are completely closed at the moment as a result of damage caused by Ukrainian shelling....

Reuters reported that Peskov, a loyalist to President Vladimir Putin, said Zelensky’s visit could backfire on Kyiv and further reduce the possibility of peaceful negotiations between the two countries. “The supply of weapons continues and the range of supplied weapons is expanding,” Peskov said. “All of this, of course, leads to an aggravation of the conflict. This does not bode well for Ukraine.” When asked whether Moscow had any expectations that something positive could come from Zelenskiy’s trip, Peskov replied, “No....

British Army Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon on Thursday told GB News that the Russian war effort had been going “very badly” and that Ukraine may be “getting on the front foot.” He said that Putin likely believes he “can’t afford” a military failure in Ukraine, while warning that tensions surrounding Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and threats by Russian officials suggests that a nuclear incident could be in the cards....