Putin built identical offices across Russia to conceal his location, a Russian intelligence officer who defected says

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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on the restoration of residential infrastructure in the border areas destroyed during emergency situations, via a video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting via a video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, on February 1, 2023.

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South Korean millennials and Gen Z are raging against the idea of a 69-hour workweek. They are tired, having fewer babies, and are even working themselves to death.

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South Korean office workers walking on the street after work in Seoul.
South Korean millennials and Gen Z are raging against the idea of a 69-hour workweek. They are tired, having fewer babies, and are even working themselves to death.

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Putin is so paranoid about being tracked, he travels in a secret grey train that stealthily blends in with other Russian locomotives, says a former elite Russian security officer

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Russian President Vladimir Putin travels by an aeroexpress train in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, on October 28, 2013.
Russian President Vladimir Putin travels by an aeroexpress train in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, on October 28, 2013.

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Putin is still worried about COVID-19 and makes his staff quarantine for weeks, says an elite Russian security officer who defected

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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping via a video link at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 30, 2022.

Japan killed 17 million chickens amid an outbreak of bird flu. Now it's running out of space to bury them.

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Officials in protective suits work at a chicken farm where an outbreak of a highly pathogenic bird flu was confirmed in Mitoyo, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo November 5, 2020. Picture taken November 5, 2020.
Japan killed 17 million chickens amid an outbreak of bird flu. Now it's running out of space to bury them.

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Even Putin's media stooges are mocking Trump's arrest, joking that he may have to seek asylum in Russia

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A still from Tuesday's "60 Minutes" show on Russian state TV, which used AI-generated images of Trump.

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Wagner Group mercenaries are getting a lot more help from Russia's military than Prigozhin would like you to think

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russia's Wagner mercenary force, speaks in Paraskoviivka, Ukraine in this still image from an undated video released on March 3, 2023.
Yevgeny Prigozhin in the Bakhmut region in an image from an undated video released on March 3.

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Japan's 'sushi terrorism' spree has led to 2 more arrests by the nation's police force

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A group of people sit at a conveyor belt sushi restaurant.
A conveyor belt sushi restaurant in Tokyo, Japan.

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Bill Clinton says he feels 'terrible' for pushing a 1994 agreement with Russia that resulted in Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons

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Boris Yeltsin with Bill Clinton, 1998

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Western countries are speeding up tank deliveries to Ukraine, but tanks aren't what Ukrainian troops need to get around Russian forces

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Ukraine tank near Zaporizhzhia
A Ukrainian tank at a shooting range near the frontline in Zaporizhzhia on March 29.

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