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Amid rampant speculation about his health, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-allied strongman who rules the region, has been noticeably absent from view, while grooming his teenage son for the future.

Elon Musk-owned social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) is back online after a brief widespread outage. The Twitter outage affected thousands of users across the US and parts of UK. As per outage tracking website Downdetetcor, almost 16,000 users reported issues around 9:52 a.m. ET, with problems ranging from app crashes and website