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US Vice President JD Vance said Russia has made “significant concessions” towards a negotiated settlement in its war with Ukraine and was confident progress was being made despite the lack of clear advances towards ending the conflict. Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker,” Vance said Russian
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Russia and Ukraine each sent back more prisoners of war on Sunday in the latest in a series of exchanges that has seen hundreds of POWs released this year, the two sides said. Large-scale prisoner exchanges were the only tangible result of three rounds of talks between Russia and Ukraine
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Iran’s supreme leader said the current situation with the United States was “unsolvable,” and that Tehran would never bow to pressure to obey Washington, amid a standoff with Western powers over its nuclear program, state media reported on Sunday. The Islamic Republic suspended nuclear negotiations with the United States
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Sunday called off the launch of Starship’s tenth mission from Texas over an issue at its launch site, delaying an attempt to achieve several long-sought development milestones missed due to past tests ending in early failures. The 70.7-meter-tall Super Heavy booster and its
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted Sunday that a meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin remained “the most effective way forward” as the two sides exchange prisoners and the country celebrated Independence Day. Kyiv’s military chief said that Ukrainian troops had recaptured three villages in its Donetsk region that
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Top US envoy Thomas Barrack arrived in Israel on Sunday and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss Syria and Lebanon, three Israeli officials said. The meeting was first reported by Axios, citing three Israeli and US sources, and followed discussions between Barrack and Israel’s Minister for Strategic
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Under President Donald Trump the United States has reset relations with west Africa’s military leaders on a mutual back-scratching basis, bartering help fighting militants for the Sahel region’s mining riches, experts say. While Joe Biden was in office the US suspended most of the development and military aid
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Syria’s first parliamentary election under its new Islamist administration, scheduled for September, will not include the southern province of Sweida and two other provinces because of security concerns, the electoral commission said on Saturday. Hundreds of people were reported killed in July in clashes in Sweida province pitting Druze
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push to slash consumption taxes on everyday goods could deliver billions of dollars in annual relief and boost demand in an economy bracing for painful US tariffs, experts say. US President Donald Trump has threatened to double import duties on India from 25 to
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Veteran Pan Cheng-fa says he clearly remembers fighting for China against the Japanese in World War Two, but gets agitated when asked about the role of communist forces who at the time were in an uneasy alliance with his republican government. “We gave them weapons, equipment — we strengthened them,” Pan,
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Kyiv on Sunday to mark Ukrainian independence day as world leaders push for an end to the war between Ukraine and Russia. “On this Ukrainian Independence Day, and at this critical moment in their nation’s history, Canada is stepping up our support
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of two types of new antiair missiles, state media said Sunday, displaying his expanding military capabilities as the South Korean and US militaries carry out joint drills. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said the test Saturday proved the
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Sri Lanka’s jailed former president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, was hospitalized on Saturday, local media reported, a day after his arrest on allegations that he misused public funds while in office. Wickremesinghe, 76, who led the South Asian island nation during a devastating economic crisis, was arrested and taken into custody
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The Pentagon is working on plans to deploy the US military to Chicago as President Donald Trump says he is cracking down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. The Defense Department planning, in the works for weeks, involves several options, including mobilizing at least
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A Ukrainian drone attack sparked a short-lived fire at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, damaged an auxiliary transformer and led to reduction in the operating capacity at one of the plant’s units, the plant’s press service reported early on Sunday. “A combat unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) belonging to
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The Pentagon has been quietly blocking Ukraine from using US-made long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to strike targets inside Russia, limiting Kyiv’s ability to employ these weapons in its defense against Moscow’s invasion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing US officials. Reuters could not immediately