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Flight attendant, 25, ‘found stabbed to death in luxury Dubai hotel room’

A 41-year-old man was arrested and charged in St Petersburg, Russia in connection with the suspected murder

The Independent UK

20 Budget-Friendly Places To Spend Your Holiday Vacation

Keep holiday vacation costs under $2,500 in these cities.

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Russian teenager gets 13 more days in prison for singing anti-Kremlin songs

Diana Loginova, who sings in a group called Stoptime, was arrested in her native St Petersburg.

The Independent UK

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Science history: Russian mathematician quietly publishes paper — and solves one of the most famous unsolved conjectures in mathematics — Nov. 11, 2002

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

LiveScience

Hundreds gather for rare anti-Putin demonstration in St Petersburg singing protest songs: ‘The old man clings to his throne’

Young people sang ‘Swan Lake Collective’ a song by a Russian rapper that was banned by a court

The Independent UK

St. Petersburg to vote on flags for LGBTQ+ and Black communities after DeSantis erases murals

The Florida city of St. Petersburg, long a bastion of LGBTQ+ rights and mindful of its racially segregated past, is considering approval of two flags recognizing those issues after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered similar street murals erased because of supposedly political messages

The Independent UK

New Rays owners promise Tropicana Field repairs, search for new ballpark around Tampa

The new owners of the Tampa Bay Rays are promising to get hurricane-damaged Tropicana Field repaired in time for next season and beginning a search for a new, permanent ballpark to open in 2029

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Trump-Putin summit live: Zelensky to meet Starmer today after US threatens Russia with Alaska talks ultimatum

Trump threatens Putin with 'severe consequences' if the Russian leader does not agree to a ceasefire in Alaska tomorrow

The Independent UK

Ukraine war briefing: attack on Kyiv injures eight, Trump and Starmer to discuss ‘applying pressure’ on Putin

Residential building in Ukrainian capital damaged by air attack; UK and US leaders to meet in Scotland. What we know on day 1,251

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,250

Here are the key events on day 1,250 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Russia scales down celebrations honoring its navy as Ukraine launches more drone attacks

Russia has scaled down the festivities honoring its navy citing security concerns as continuing Ukrainian drone attacks posed a challenge the Kremlin

The Independent UK

Dancing with Putin: how Austria’s former foreign minister found a new home in Russia

The long read: Karin Kneissl made headlines around the world when she invited the Russian president to her wedding in 2018. Five years later, she moved to St Petersburg. The scandal revealed a dark truth about the ties between Vienna and Moscow

The Guardian - UK

Florida Republicans racially gerrymandered two state senate districts, court hears

GOP officials had previously manipulated districts as well to wrest voting power from Black electorate

The Guardian - US

Family of teenage girl allegedly tortured and murdered by man she met on Grindr sues app

‘Without Grindr, we believe that Miranda would have never met this Steven Gress character, and she’d still be alive,’ the lawsuit states

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Russian captain denies unlawful killing of crew member in North Sea collision

The Solong’s master, Vladimir Motin, of St Petersburg, is accused over the death of Mark Angelo Pernia.

Evening Standard

Russian captain denies manslaughter after North Sea crash

Captain of Solong container ship, Vladimir Motin, accused of manslaughter over the death of Mark Angelo Pernia in crash in March this year

Evening Standard

Russian captain to enter plea over death of crewman in North Sea collision

Vladimir Motin, 59, from St Petersburg, is charged over the death of crew member Mark Angelo Pernia, 38.

Euronews

Fact-checking false claims NATO troops are preparing to attack Russia from Estonia

A video claiming to show tanks preparing to advance towards St Petersburg from Tallinn in fact shows images from Estonia's Independence Day procession.

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Evening Standard

Russian priest arrested during Sunday service for 2014 photo with Ukrainian flag

Nikolai Savchenko said police came to his St Petersburg church during Sunday service to detain him

Evening Standard

Russian captain of North Sea crash ship to appear in court

The Solong’s master Vladimir Motin, 59, of Primorsky, St Petersburg, in Russia, has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter, police said.

Evening Standard

Russian captain of North Sea crash ship charged over death of crew member

The Solong’s master Vladimir Motin, 59, of Primorsky, St Petersburg, in Russia, has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter, police said.

The Guardian - UK

‘We swept into Moscow in Gorbachev’s limousine’: Neil Tennant’s love affair with Russia – before the ‘cancer of Putin’

They played Red Square, launched MTV Russia and got driven home from a gay club by the police. But the freedoms witnessed by Pet Shop Boys have been crushed. Singer Neil Tennant relives those heady days – and calls for a revolution

Autosport

How Dixon's woes gave Palou an unlikely victory in the 2025 IndyCar opener

Chip Ganassi Racing has a multi-champion superstar capable of extracting wins from what seem the most impossible of circumstances. Scratch that: it has two of them, because Alex Palou is a Catalan clone of Scott Dixon. Reigning title holder Palou bobbed around in the mix for over half of the IndyCar…

Motorsport

IndyCar on FOX Sports: Is this new era of race coverage off to a good start?

The NTT IndyCar Series’ new era is alive and well with FOX Sports. But there’s plenty of room for improvement this season after the broadcast for the opening race at St. Petersburg wrapped up.

Motorsport

The winners and losers of 2025’s IndyCar season opener at St. Pete

More than five months removed from the 2024 season finale in Nashville, the NTT IndyCar Series finally returned to life in St. Petersburg, Florida. Between the start of a new era with FOX Sports and a strategy-heavy street race, there was much to discuss leaving the weekend.

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