Donald Trump Jr and his wife, Bettina, confirmed on Monday that a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin partially paid for the couple’s wedding celebrations in May, following a ProPublica report revealing Umar Kremlev spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the events.

Trump Jr, the US president’s eldest child, married the Palm Beach socialite in a lavish three-day celebration across two exclusive private islands in May.

Citing records and interviews with three anonymous sources familiar with the event, ProPublica reported that Kremlev, a member of the Russian president’s circle, footed the bill to rent one of the islands where a reception was held and where guests slept, along with other large expenses, including a huge firework show.

The film NAZA, which documents the Israeli military’s use of secret AI-powered systems to deliberately and systematically target and massacre civilians in Gaza, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival Saturday.

The organisers of a viral sporting event in Beijing have faced backlash and criticism after an Australian woman was allowed to continue competing after soiling herself.

Athlete Joanna Wietrzyk was participating in the global indoor fitness race HYROX in the Chinese capital at the weekend when she suffered a bout of faecal incontinence.

Wietrzyk was allowed to finish the course and won her event, with videos and photos posted online showing her continuing through demanding exercises and using communal equipment while visibly soiled.

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“Mohammad Eslami and his delegation took a regular flight to Vienna on Sept 12, but were blocked on the way because of obstructions by the United States,” the state broadcaster reported, saying he had returned to the capital Tehran.

He was due to attend the annual general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog, which runs until Sept 18 in Austria."

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