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Polish officials expressed alarm after they received reports that about 100 soldiers from the disgraced Wagner group had moved closer to the Belarusian city of Grodno near the Polish border. In early July 2023, Poland began moving more than 1,000 troops to the east of the country amid rising concerns that the presence of Wagner fighters in Belarus could lead …

Many Kuwaitis, and many Americans, hope that the reshuffled Kuwaiti cabinet deck of cards produces a winning hand. Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, who was re-appointed as prime minister last week, formed the new cabinet, announced in a decree carried by the state news agency KUNA. The Gulf Arab state also named a new defense minister, Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed …

President Joe Biden immediately blamed former President Donald Trump for America’s chaotic 2022 exit from the war-torn country. According to a new State Department report, that shifting of responsibility was not entirely fair. “The decisions of both President Trump and President Biden to end the U.S. military mission posed significant challenges for the [State] Department as it sought to maintain …

The Therapeutic Goods Administration, Australia’s version of the Food and Drug Administration, made previously illegal psychedelic drugs available to persons with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Strict limitations apply. Only registered psychiatrists who have the ethics approvals normally needed to conduct clinical trials and who have gained regulatory authorization through a provider program will be allowed to prescribe them. The TGA …

Mercenaries frustrated with government policies occupied a Russian town and planned to march on Moscow. Fortunately, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko mediated a solution that avoided bloodshed. After the Ukraine War began, the Wagner Group’s ranks swelled from about 5,000 fighters to about 25,000. Wagner Group fighters in Ukraine complained about equipment shortages and mission orders. Russian military commanders sometimes ordered …