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  Marco Imarisio per  corriere.it - Estratti   (...) Sergey Shoigu, ad esempio. Non se ne parlava da un paio d’anni, da quando con una manovra discreta era stato destituito da ministro della Difesa, e quindi dalla guida della guerra in Ucraina.   A sostegno della tesi che fosse una rimozione salvifica, per non finire nel gorgo dello scandalo per le tangenti sulle forniture militari, c’era un corredo di foto che non lasciava dubbi sulla sua amicizia con Vladimir Putin. PUTIN SHOIGU   Insieme a petto nudo nell’estate del 2017 durante una battuta di pesca e caccia ad alta gradazione alcolica, e poi lo stesso presidente che fa da testimone al matrimonio della sua primogenita Xenia. Tutti indizi che portavano gli esperti a considerarlo uno dei pochi membri del clan al potere non proveniente da San Pietroburgo.   Nella Russia paranoica di oggi i legami personali contano poco. Ma la notizia propagata da un non meglio precisato servizio di intelligence europeo rigu...

  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia —  Theodore, a retired tech entrepreneur in Malaysia, is usually in no rush to book flights for his family’s annual holiday to South Korea and Japan, preferring to take his time to find the best deals. But this year, the 50-year-old father of three was eager to lock down his travel plans fast amid a surge in jet fuel prices that has led to thousands of flight cancellations worldwide – even if it meant giving up a bargain. end of list Forgoing his usual choice of a budget airline, he booked seats with Korean Air and Malaysia Airlines last week for August and September, reasoning that the full-service carriers would be less likely to throw his plans into disarray with a last-minute cancellation. “I saw prices going up, saw budget airlines cancelling flights often, and wanted to avoid any friction later on,” Theodore, who asked to be identified by his first name only, told Al Jazeera. “It’s a life quality upgrade to reduce friction and mental cycles on is...

  Manipur, India   – The loud wails of a 37-year-old nurse pierce the air as she crouches near two coffins to grieve the killing of her infant daughter and five-year-old son in a blast last month. A woman tries to comfort the mother as dozens of men and women, most of them dressed in ceremonial white, congregate on top of a truck carrying the two coffins and around the vehicle in Tronglaobi town in Bishnupur district of northeastern India’s Manipur state. end of list The last rites of the two children were held on Saturday, nearly a month after an improvised RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) hit their home on April 7, killing the children and wounding their mother while they were sleeping. Their father, a paramilitary soldier with India’s Border Security Force (BSF), was on duty hundreds of kilometres away in Bihar state when he came to know of the killing. He had been waiting to return home to celebrate his daughter turning six months old this month. “Just the previous evening, ...