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Hiroshima marks 80 years as US-Russia nuclear tensions rise

Japan marked 80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Wednesday with a ceremony reminding the world of the horrors unleashed, as sabre-rattling between the United States and Russia keeps the nuclear ‘Doomsday Clock’ close to midnight...

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Russian strikes kill six across Ukraine

Russian strikes across eastern Ukraine killed six people, including a mechanic at a railway station, and wounded at least a dozen people, authorities said Tuesday...

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Trump threatens India with higher tariffs

US president Donald Trump said Tuesday he was considering ‘substantially’ hiking tariffs on Indian imports in the next 24 hours over the country’s purchases of Russian oil...

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Sweden, Denmark, Norway to buy US arms for Ukraine

Sweden, Norway and Denmark will donate equipment and munitions worth $500 million to Ukraine, under a new scheme to speed deliveries from American stockpiles, Stockholm said on Tuesday.

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Ukrainian drones spark fire at Sochi oil depot

An overnight Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire at an oil depot in Sochi, the Russian resort that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, around 400 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, authorities said Sunday...

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China, Russia start joint drills in Sea of Japan

China and Russia began joint naval drills in the Sea of Japan on Sunday as they seek to reinforce their partnership and counterbalance what they see as a US-led global order...

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Russia, Syria to bolster ties, review Assad-era agreements

Russia and Syria signalled Thursday they would bolster ties and review agreements made under the previous pro-Moscow government of Bashar al-Assad amid uncertainty over the future of two Russian military bases in the country.

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Trump imposes 25 per cent tariff on Indian imports

The US president, Donald Trump, said Wednesday that imports from India will face 25 per cent tariffs, while also announcing an unspecified ‘penalty’ for New Delhi’s purchases of Russian weapons and energy.

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Huge quake off Russia sparks Pacific tsunamis

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia’s sparsely populated Far East on Wednesday, causing tsunamis up to four metres high across the Pacific and sparking evacuations from Hawaii to Japan...

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Russia starts direct flights to N Korea

Russia on Sunday began direct commercial flights to North Korea, in a further sign of closer ties with its Asian ally helping its offensive in Ukraine...

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Russia seizes 2 villages in central Ukraine

Russia on Saturday said it had wrested two villages in Ukraine, including one in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, marking a fresh advance into an area largely spared seizures of land since Moscow launched its offensive in 2022...

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Russia cuts interest rates amid slowdown fears

Russia’s central bank on Friday lowered interest rates to 18 per cent from 20 per cent earlier, its steepest cut since 2022 as the economy slows down faster than expected.

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Russian rocket puts Iran satellite into space

A Russian rocket put an Iranian communications satellite into space on Friday, Iranian state media reported, the latest achievement for an aerospace programme that has long concerned Western governments.

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Russia strikes Ukraine after Kyiv offers fresh talks

Russia fired a volley of drones and missiles at Ukraine early on Monday, hitting apartment blocks and a nursery in Kyiv, days after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky proposed holding a fresh round of peace talks...

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Russian strikes kill 3 across Ukraine

Russian strikes killed three people across Ukraine on Saturday, authorities said, while Moscow had to briefly suspend trains in its southern Rostov region after an overnight drone attack by Kyiv...

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Ukraine evacuates 43 held at Russian-Georgian border

Ukraine said Saturday it had evacuated 43 of its citizens recently deported from Russia who were being held in Georgia in dire conditions, accusing Moscow of ‘weaponising’ deportations...

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Russian strikes kill 6 in Ukraine

Russian drone and bomb fire killed at least six people across Ukraine’s east and south, local authorities said Friday, as Russia resists US president Donald Trump’s call to halt its invasion.