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Russian drone entry poses new security challenge: Romania

Romania on Sunday strongly condemned the entry of a Russian drone into its airspace during an attack on neighbouring Ukraine, saying Moscow’s actions pose a ‘new challenge’ to Black Sea security...

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One killed as two trains derail in Russian region

Two trains in separate parts of Russia’s western Leningrad region derailed early Sunday, leaving a train driver dead and disrupting railway traffic, the region’s governor said.

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Tectonic shift over the fault lines

On March 1, 2001, president George W Bush, speaking at the National Defence University in Washington DC, stated that the United States and Russia ‘are not and must not be strategic adversaries.’ Yet, more than two decades later, as the 2024 US presidential elections approached, Republican nominee Donald Trump remarked during a televised interview on November...

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Russia claims another village in Ukraine

Russia on Saturday said it had captured a new village in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region, which Moscow’s forces say they reached at the beginning of July...

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India disavows ‘Tianjin spirit,’ turns to EU

INDIA found itself in an uncomfortable situation like a cat on a hot roof at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation event in Tianjin, China, with western media hyping up its unlikely role in a troika with Russia and China to chariot the world order toward a brave new era of multipolarity...

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Peace talks frozen as Zelensky warns Putin: Moscow

Moscow said Friday that peace talks with Kyiv were on ‘pause’ as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin still had plans to try to capture the whole of Ukraine.

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Poland warns of escalation, holds NATO talks

Poland gathered its NATO allies for urgent talks on Wednesday after Russian drones flew into Polish airspace during an attack on Ukraine, prime minister Donald Tusk said, warning that the situation was inching closer to ‘open conflict’...

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Russian attack kills 24 in Ukraine

A Russian strike on Tuesday killed 24 people waiting for pension payments in a front-line town of eastern Ukraine where Russian forces are massing forces for a large-scale offensive, officials said...

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Trump threatens Russia with sanctions

US president Donald Trump threatened Sunday to impose more sanctions on Russia, after the Kremlin unleashed its biggest-ever aerial barrage at Ukraine...

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Russia hits Ukraine govt site in major air attack

Russia fired its biggest-ever aerial barrage at Ukraine early Sunday, killing four people and setting the seat of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv ablaze in an attack president Volodymyr Zelensky warned would prolong the war...

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UK slaps new sanctions on Russia

Britain on Wednesday announced new sanctions against Russian officials and youth organisations linked to what London called Moscow’s policy to ‘deport, indoctrinate and militarise Ukrainian children’...

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Putin tells Xi ties ‘unprecedented’

Russian president Vladimir Putin told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Tuesday that their countries’ ties were at an ‘unprecedented level’, during talks in Beijing ahead of a massive military parade.

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Putin, Modi in China for summit hosted by Xi

Chinese President Xi Jinping gathered the leaders of Russia and India among dignitaries from around 20 Eurasian countries on Sunday to kick off a showpiece summit aimed at putting China front and centre of regional relations.

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Russia strikes Ukraine amid fading peace hopes

Russia launched ‘massive’ strikes across Ukraine overnight, rescue services said on Saturday, a new blow to peace efforts that drew a fresh appeal from president Volodymyr Zelensky for US and European help.

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Trump still working for Putin, Zelensky meeting

US president Donald Trump is still working on a Russia-Ukraine peace summit, the White House said Friday, after French president Emmanuel Macron warned Trump risked being ‘played’ by Vladimir Putin.

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Russian missile, drone attacks kill 18 in Kyiv

Russian missiles and drones ripped through apartment blocks in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Thursday, killing at least 18 people, including four children, in an attack the US warned undermines peace efforts.

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Russia rejects EU troops in Ukraine, speedy Zelensky meeting

Russia pushed back Wednesday against the idea of European peacekeeping troops being deployed to Ukraine, and downplayed chances of a meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, in another blow to the chances of a peace deal...

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50pc US tariffs on Indian goods take effect

US tariffs of 50 per cent took effect Wednesday on many Indian products, doubling an existing duty as President Donald Trump sought to punish New Delhi for buying Russian oil...