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Russian President Vladimir Putin greeted Mozambican President Daniel Chapo during the official welcoming ceremony at the Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow on October 28, 2026. The Kremlin did not release photographs from the meeting, but Mozambique’s government shared an image showing Chapo significantly taller than Putin.
The Kremlin’s decision not to release certain images from the greeting has attracted attention on social media, resulting in the creation of memes that playfully reflect on the height disparity between Vladimir Putin and Daniel Chapo. Chapo expressed on social media that his visit to Moscow was an important step in strengthening relations between Mozambique and the Russian Federation during the ongoing 3rd Russia–Africa Summit.
The Kremlin decided not to release an image showing Russian President Vladimir Putin greeting Mozambique’s President Daniel Chapo, suggesting a sensitivity regarding Putin’s stature. In response, Chapo’s government shared the photo, while social media users created memes and parodies, reflecting public amusement and criticism regarding the height difference.
What remains unclear — The Kremlin has not explained why they chose not to release the original photo showing both leaders.
Putin faces mockery for photo with Mozambique’s tall president Chapo
The Kremlin appears to have made a point not to share the photo (Picture: Reuters)
This is the picture Vladimir Putin didn’t want the world to see: the short Russian president greeting Mozambique’s towering president, Daniel Chapo, in Moscow.
The Kremlin seems to have made a point of not sharing the image, but Mozambique’s government released it.
Putin is known to be sensitive about his stature of just 5 ft 7 in, and he is rumoured to wear platform shoes to boost his height.
His counterpart in the photo, Chapo, is believed to be at least 6 ft 5 in or taller.
Kremlin official photographers were present at the greeting, but a decision was apparently taken not to release the ‘Lil Putin’ image.
Putin was dwarfed by the African leader (Picture: Reuters)
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A different version was released, shot from a lower angle – making Putin look taller – and cropping out both leaders’ legs.
Separate pictures and footage released by Mozambique show Chapo looming high over Putin at a session.
Chapo was also teased with memes on his social media for inflating Putin’s size.
One, showing an even smaller Putin, asked the Mozambican leader: ‘Why did you enlarge Putin in your photo? Here’s the original.’
Multiple parody images have emerged as well. One depicted Chapo as Lord of the Rings wizard Gandalf and the diminutive Kremlin leader as a barefoot hobbit.
One comment read: ‘Putin must feel very insecure, looking up.’
Another complained: ‘Shaking hand with mass murderer dwarf. Disgusting.’
Chapo said on his social media: ‘We are in Moscow, at the invitation of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, to participate in the 3rd Russia–Africa Summit.
‘This presence reflects the importance we attach to dialogue, cooperation, and strengthening relations between Mozambique, the Russian Federation, and African countries.’
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October 12, 2024
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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