One of the reasons France has backed Ukraine is that Russia has helped many of its former African colonies escape neo-colonial shackles, Dr. Stevan Gajic of the Institute of European Studies in Belgrade told RT on Thursday.

The paddleboarder who drowned outside ex-US president’s Martha’s Vineyard mansion was his chef Massachusetts police announced on Monday that the body found in the water outside  the estate of former US president Barack Obama was of his sous chef, Tafari Campbell. The 43-year-old African American reportedly drowned while paddleboarding.

There is “no indication” that the attack has any connection to Ukraine, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has said The White House has condemned a major terrorist attack outside Moscow which unfolded on Friday evening, as masked gunmen breached a concert hall northwest of the Russian capital, leaving scores dead and injured.