Wagner

Wagner mercenaries were returning to base on Sunday as their mutinous leader agreed to go into exile after President Vladimir Putin was forced to accept an amnesty deal.

The agreement appears to end the immediate threat that Yevgeny Prigozhin's private army could storm Moscow, but analysts said Wagner's revolt had exposed a fragility in Putin's rule.

Medvedev spoke to "France 24", almost two months after he fled to Norway and requested asylum there. Speaking from Oslo, Medvedev explained that he had "witnessed many things" while fighting in Ukraine.
However, he said he did not want to talk about the specifics because he is gathering the data for Norwegian investigators.

A group of farmers from the village of Ilia, near Karditsa, central Greece, who have managed to get their organic tomatoes onto the shelves of sought-after stores in Europe and the US, attribute the thriving of their produce to a musical diet including the German composer Richard Wagner.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, aged 61, fainted at the prestigious Wagner Opera Festival in Bayreuth, report German news sources. She was out for a few moments before others helped her come round again.