A Virginia jury has found US defense contractor CACI Premier Technology complicit in the torture of prisoners at the US-controlled Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The verdict was announced by the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented the interests of three former Abu Ghraib prisoners - school director Suhail al-Shimari, fruit seller Asaad Zubai and journalist Salah al-Ejaili. The jury also ordered the company to pay $42 million in damages to the plaintiffs—$14 million each.

The wife, son and daughter of Anatoly Chepiga, suspected of poisoning Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, changed their last name, the Agency reported, citing leaks from Russian databases. The family of the alleged GRU officer received passports with the surname Korulin or Korulin. As the publication notes, Chepiga’s wife Galina received a passport with the last name Korulina in 2019, a few months after an investigation by The Insider and Bellingcat, which revealed her husband’s real name.

Yulia Navalnaya commented on the protest staged by Ukrainian activists during her speech at the Web Summit 2024 IT conference in Lisbon. Alexei Navalny's widow said her speech focused on "how Western tech companies often help dictators by blindly following insane, repressive laws" and suggested what could be done about it. In the middle of the speech, according to Navalnaya, a group of Ukrainian conference participants staged a protest.

The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested the apartment of Natalya Kolesnikova, the mother-in-law of journalist Alexander Nevzorov, said the head of the press service of the St. Petersburg courts, Daria Lebedeva. The apartment was seized as an interim measure in a lawsuit filed by the prosecutor's office against Kolesnikova and the journalist's wife Lydia Nevzorova. It follows from the lawsuit that Nevzorova sold the apartment to her mother.

Military registration and enlistment offices in Moscow sent out notifications to conscripts for conscript service that restrictions had been imposed on them for failure to appear on summons. Information about this without reference to the source appeared in Z-channels. Several real cases of receiving such a notification were confirmed to “Important Stories” by the lawyer of the Conscious Objector Movement , Artem Klyga.

The Leninsky District Court of Kursk fined a resident of the Kursk region Andrei Gerasimenko, the alleged organizer of a spontaneous rally of refugees from Sudzha who were left homeless due to the offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 20 thousand rubles, Mediazona reports. The court found Gerasimenko guilty of organizing an uncoordinated action (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). The resident of the Kursk region did not admit guilt.

Employees of the Investigative Committee for Chechnya familiarized lawyer Alexander Savin with the materials of the new criminal case of Zarema Musaeva, reports Team Against Torture. As it became known on November 11, she is being investigated in a case of disorganizing the activities of institutions that ensure isolation from society (Part 2 of Article 321 of the Criminal Code).

Ukrainian activists staged a protest at Yulia Navalna’s speech at the Web Summit 2024 IT conference in Lisbon, Hromadske reports. During Navalnaya’s speech, activists sounded an air raid alarm and began shouting in English “Stop Russia” and “Stop the war.” The organizer of the action claims that the performance was eventually canceled. Navalnaya and representatives of the conference did not comment on the incident.

Colin Farrell was put on makeup for hours - and so on for 80 days in a row. He doesn't want to wear "that damn suit" anymore Max On November 11, HBO released the eighth and final episode of the Penguin miniseries, where Colin Farrell reprized his role as the ugly gangster from Matt Reeves' Batman. This is one of the most successful comic book projects of recent years: on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the show received a rating of 95%, and the final episode - 100%.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who held this post since 2013, resigned, the BBC Russian Service reports. The resignation of the spiritual leader of the Church of England occurred against the backdrop of the publication of a report on the case of British lawyer John Smythe associated with the church. An independent investigation team found that the lawyer physically and sexually abused boys and young men in various Church of England parishes in the 1970s and 1980s.

Your browser does not support the audio element. The story of Georgy Filimonov - the most scandalous governor of Russia Georgy Filimonov headed the Vologda region in the fall of 2023 and since then has become one of the most media-rich regional leaders. He proposes to introduce prohibition in the region, goes out in public to the song “Sky of the Slavs,” forces his subordinates to do push-ups and scolds them for their poor knowledge of English.

The TASS state agency corrected a note on its website about the looting of the Ukrainian military in the Kursk region after “military correspondents” noticed that the agency’s material mentioned a village that had never been under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The material entitled “Residents of the Kursk border region are returning to houses looted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine” was published on the agency’s website on the night of November 11.

Your browser does not support the audio element. The story of Ilham Aliyev, the most successful autocrat in the former USSR. Why does he do almost the same thing as Putin, but the West forgives him for it? On November 11, the UN Climate Conference 2024 (COP29) started in Baku.

Ryan M. Kelly / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Donald Trump and Marco Rubio during the election campaign Secretary of State The foreign policy department in the Trump administration may be headed by Senator from Florida Marco Rubio - first The New York Times and then many other major American media wrote about this, citing sources. Trump and Rubio were rivals in the Republican presidential primaries in 2016 - and then allowed themselves sharp criticism of each other, but their relationship later improved.

Belarusian political prisoner Maria Kolesnikova, who has not been in contact since February 2023, met with her father. A photo of the meeting was published by the former editor-in-chief of the opposition Belarusian telegram channel Nexta Roman Protasevich . In the photo, Kolesnikova hugs her father and smiles. From Protasevich’s post it follows that the meeting took place on November 12. He did not specify other details of the meeting, including where it took place.