Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Pragotian has been exiled to Belarus. He said he was attempting to mobilize Russian society, and that his fighters would be back on the battlefield in Ukraine soon enough. The UN's Security Council dissolved its mission to stabilize fighting in Mali with American representatives warning over Wagner's role in the country. A White House spokesman even accused him of helping to engineer the UN's departure in order to further Wagner's interests.
Its leader is in exile and its future is uncertain. But the Wagner Group will be loth to abandon the influence and the cashflow that its murky African operations bring. The striking down of affirmative-action university-admissions policies in America may counterintuitively spur more-progressive and more-efficient alternatives (9:56). And the reinvention (again) of a beloved Chinese sweet treat (17:08).
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