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US spy agencies picked up signs days ago that mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was preparing to rise up against Russia’s defense establishment, US media reported on Saturday.

The chief of the rebel Wagner mercenary force will leave Russia and won’t face charges after calling off his troops’ advance on Saturday, Moscow said, easing Russia’s most serious security crisis in decades.

The United States and its allies held close consultations but publicly stayed on the sidelines Saturday as officials waited to see how the armed revolt by longtime Kremlin insider Yevgeny Prigozhin and his private Wagner army would play out.

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Military vehicles take up positions in Rostov

The head of the Russian Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said overnight he had taken control of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don as part of an attempt to oust Russia’s defence minister. The 62-year-old’s open challenge to Moscow’s military comes after months of growing tensions over the conduct of the war in Ukraine.

Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin called for an armed uprising to topple Russia’s military establishment on Friday, prompting President Vladimir Putin to denounce the mercenaries’ actions as “treason” and Russian authorities to call for Prigozhin’s arrest. British intelligence said early Saturday that some of the group’s forces were heading towards Moscow. Follow FRANCE 24’s reports from the field and analysis.

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A year after the US Supreme Court decision overturning federal abortion protections, President Joe Biden has issued an executive order aimed at strengthening access to contraception.

Huge storms and torrential rain across Germany, Austria and Switzerland have caused damage and disruption to houses and roads

In a stunning tirade of accusations, Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prighozhin in a video released on Telegram on Friday publicly alleged that the Russian defence ministry had deceived the Russian president and public about the reasoning behind launching Russia’s “special operation” in Ukraine.

“We try to stay really relevant by including more and more interaction, by not just showing sand sculptures, but also including a storyline, showing the people around, having little walkthroughs for the children.”

Talking Europe devotes a special programme to levelling up – efforts to reduce inequalities and disparities in the European Union. Featuring extracts from our own reporting from around the continent, we take a comprehensive view of the EU’s cohesion policy with Elisa Ferreira, the Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms. She insists that levelling up “has really worked”, but says that “this does not mean that everything is perfect”. She also urges member states to reflect on the political cost of the continuing imbalances between European regions.

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Richard Mosse won the Grand Prize of the European Commission, which honours Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts

This week Euronews Culture pays a visit to the home of design duo Jordan Cluroe and Russell Whitehead who aren’t afraid to make bold interior statements in their stunning pad

NATO organised a major air deployment exercise designed to demonstrate the unity of its members in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly in the face of potential threats from Russia amid the war in Ukraine. The exercise, named “Air Defender 23”, began on June 12 and ends on June 23. It has brought together some 250 aircraft from 25 NATO member and partner countries, including Japan and Sweden, a country applying to join the military alliance.

One person was still missing on Thursday after a blast ripped through a building in central Paris, while six others were in critical condition receiving urgent treatment in hospital as rescuers sifted through wreckage.

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French President Emmanuel Macron opened a climate finance summit on Thursday by saying changes were needed to the global lending system to ensure that low-income countries “shouldn’t have to choose” between fighting climate change and poverty.

Billie Eilish, Lenny Kravitz and Jon Batiste are headlining a concert aimed at building awareness around climate at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Thursday.

A 27-year-old Palestinian was killed and twelve more were wounded after hundreds of Israeli settlers torched dozens of Palestinian homes and cars in the occupied West Bank.

Italy is the country in Europe that suffers the most from natural disasters: it’s the scene of two thirds of landslides that occur on the continent. The island of Ischia is particularly vulnerable, and the problem of uncontrolled urban development is making the damage worse. Some 27,000 of the 64,000 houses on the island do not meet building regulations. As the village of Casamiccciola rebuilds after a deadly landslide in November 2022, the council is trying to reduce risk factors to better adapt to climate change. Our correspondents report.

The French government issued a decree Wednesday outlawing an activist climate group it accuses of fomenting violence in a series of recent demonstrations, including one that saw fierce clashes with police over an irrigation project.

Advertisers and the media are tackling inclusivity in an increasingly tech-driven world. Success means tapping the potential of Black consumers.

The Nature Restoration Law, which has attracted enormous controversy, was on Tuesday endorsed by EU member states.