The Daily Populous

Monday October 21st, 2024 evening edition

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Mikhail Rogachev, 64, who was the former vice president of the disbanded energy firm Yukos, died after falling from a window, the TASS and RIA Novosti news agencies reported at the weekend.

A law enforcement source told Tass that Rogachev's body was found in Protopovsky Lane in the Russian capital and that "the main version of his death is suicide.

The logo of the oil firm Yukos in Moscow in 2007.

Former Yukos executive Mikhail Rogachev was found dead following a reported suicide, according to Russian media.

The Russian oligarch and former vice-president of the oil giant Yukos, Mikhail Rogachev, mysteriously died yesterday after falling out of a window of his 11th-floor apartment in Moscow. pic.twitter.com/njRcKVPu6D — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 20, 2024.

Lukoil executive Ravil Maganov, 67, fell from a window of Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital in September 2022 in what Russian state media reported was a suicide. »

Steam Deck won't have yearly refreshes because it's "not really fair to your customers", says Valve

Authored by eurogamer.net
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Valve won't be releasing a new Steam Deck console each year because "that's kind of not really fair to your customers".

Two of its designers from Valve, Lawrence Yang and Yazan Aldehayyat, were interviewed by Reviews.org and discussed the trend of yearly hardware refreshes.

"It is important to us, and we've tried to be really clear, we are not doing the yearly cadence," said Yang. »

'We were completely at Hezbollah's mercy,' former UN peacekeeper says

Authored by jpost.com
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Despite their obligations, Michael testified that workers would simply observe from a distance when suspicious persons photographed the Israeli border.

"When we patrolled the Blue Line, we often saw 'civilians' very close to the Israeli military installations taking pictures,” he said.

The United Nations Office at Geneva complained on Monday morning that Israeli forces in Lebanon had “deliberately” targeted a UNIFIL watchtower and fence. »

Woman admitted to poisoning boyfriend with antifreeze believing he inherited $30 million

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MINOT, N.D. (KFYR/Gray News) - A North Dakota woman was sentenced for poisoning her boyfriend after believing he had inherited $30 million.

That means she’ll serve 25 years in prison with the remaining 25-year balance suspended, KFYR reported.

Prosecutors said that 48-year-old Ina Thea Kenoyer, poisoned Stephen Riley, Jr., with antifreeze on the false belief that she would inherit part of a multi-million-dollar inheritance. »