Students at a teachers’ college dormitory in Russia’s Zabaykalsky Krai found a newborn baby on the floor of a bathroom stall this weekend. The child’s mother, a 17-year-old pupil at the school, had given birth in the bathroom and left the baby wrapped in a jacket. The mother and child were later taken to the hospital, and the two are now together under medical supervision. The baby’s life is not in danger, according to the news outlet People of Baikal .

The US Department of Defense announced on November 24 that it had opened an investigation into American astronaut, Democratic Senator from Arizona, and retired Navy Captain Mark Kelly, who received “serious allegations of misconduct.” The Pentagon has said it may return Kelly to active duty to hold him accountable. The department did not specify what charges Kelly might face.

The producer of the group “Tender May” Andrei Razin was put on the wanted list under a criminal article, TASS reports with reference to a card in the wanted list of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the agency, Razin was put on the interstate wanted list on charges of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) with the money of Sergei Kuznetsov, the poet, founder and first leader of Tender May.

A US judge has dropped criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey over possible irregularities in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. This decision was made by Judge Cameron McGowan Curry, Reuters reports on November 24. The judge also dropped charges brought against New York prosecutor Letitia James, who was accused of bank fraud.

The Moscow Meshchansky Court arrested 21-year-old IT entrepreneur from Tomsk Timur Kilin in the case of high treason, TASS and Beware News reported, citing the case card . The details of the case are unknown - all cases of treason are classified. “Caution, news” reported that in recent years Kilin lived in Moscow, where he registered as an individual entrepreneur. In 2023, he developed a virtual hosting rental service, and in 2025, he founded his own IT security company.

Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual state-of-the-nation address at the Gostiny Dvor conference center in central Moscow. February 29, 2024. In his 2024 state-of-the-nation address, Vladimir Putin declared that the word “elite” had lost much of its credibility. “Those who have done nothing for society and consider themselves a caste with special rights and privileges […] are definitely not the elite,” he said.

We have received hundreds of letters from you - our readers - about what you think about the “peace plan”. We haven't seen this kind of reaction in a long time. Roman Pilipey / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Wall of memory of those who fell for Ukraine in Kyiv. November 24, 2025 Last week we asked you, our readers, what you thought of Donald Trump's plan to end the Russian-Ukrainian war.

These are the points of the Trump peace plan. We talked about them with former US Permanent Representative to NATO Julianne Smith Aaron Schwartz / CNP / Scanpix / LETA US President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte “Donald Trump's plan” to end the Russian-Ukrainian war contains four points regarding NATO.

Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Scanpix / LETA U.S. and Ukrainian delegations meet in Geneva. November 23, 2025. In the days since the Trump administration’s controversial “peace plan” for Russia and Ukraine surfaced last week, the proposal has undergone revisions, stirred debate over who wrote it, and prompted a counterproposal from several European allies.

The US State Department has included the Cartel de los Soles (Cartel of the Suns) drug cartel from Venezuela on its list of international terrorist organizations. The decision on this was made on November 16, the relevant documents were published on November 24. The Venezuelan authorities “strongly rejected,” as the country’s Foreign Minister Ivan Gil said , “a new invention” by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that he considers the version about the involvement of the French authorities in the murder of activist Charlie Kirk “plausible”, and called the murdered man himself a “hero”. Thus, Durov supported the statement disseminated by American far-right activist Candace Owens, who worked in Kirk’s organization Turning Point USA. She is also spreading rumors that French First Lady Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman.

Talking about his trip to Tashkent, he portrayed a man who “didn’t speak Russian, but watched “Brigade”” (making fun of his accent) Alexander Ryumin / TASS / Profimedia Actor Sergei Bezrukov was accused of disrespect for the people and culture of Uzbekistan after his statements at a TASS press conference, which took place in early September and was dedicated to the program of anniversary events for the 130th anniversary of the poet Sergei Yesenin.

Zuckerberg and the company's investors don't think so. Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg/Getty Images One of the leading artificial intelligence researchers, Meta Vice President Yann LeCun announced that he will leave the company at the end of 2025 after 12 years of work. According to the scientist, he is launching a new startup whose goal is to revolutionize the field of AI. LeCun wants to create a system that can understand the physical world and reason fully.

Roscongress Foundation St. Petersburg State University rector Nikolay Kropachev presents the new Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation In April, Russia introduced a new Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation, compiled at St. Petersburg State University and immediately added to the official list of normative dictionaries that government agencies are required to use.

Trump says Christians are being oppressed in the country, threatens military intervention Abdullahi Dare Akogun / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Church in Eruku, Nigeria, November 23, 2025 On the night of November 21, a group of armed men stormed St. Mary's Catholic boarding school in the town of Papiri in Niger State in western Nigeria. They kidnapped 315 schoolchildren aged 10 to 18, as well as 12 teachers.