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Russia main election monitor closes amid crackdown

Russia’s main independent voting observer Golos, which monitored the country’s increasingly tightly-controlled elections for 25 years, announced its closure on Tuesday, two months after its co-chair was jailed...

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Russia claims new foothold in Ukraine region

Russia said Monday it captured its first village in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region after grinding towards the border for months, dealing a psychological blow for Kyiv as its worries mount...

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Genesis of Russia-Ukraine/west conflict

WHILE much of the world is extremely vexed, and rightly so, over the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the prospect of renewed US-Zionist blitz of Iran, it is hard to imagine either of these two crises flaring into a global conflagration.

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Putin tells Trump Russia will not ‘give up’ aims in Ukraine

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin told US counterpart Donald Trump that Moscow will not ‘give up’ on its aims in Ukraine, while pledging it will also keep up a negotiating process on the conflict, the Kremlin said Thursday after a call between the leaders.

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Madrid, Dortmund reach CWC quarter-finals

Spanish giants Real Madrid beat Juventus 1-0 on Tuesday to set up a Club World Cup quarter-final clash against Borussia Dortmund, who edged Mexican side Monterrey...

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Three killed as Ukraine hits Russian city

Ukrainian drones attacked the Russian city of Izhevsk on Tuesday, killing three people and wounding dozens in one of the deepest strikes inside Russia of the three-year conflict, authorities said...

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Kim shown honouring troops killed in Russia-Ukraine war

State media images showed leader Kim Jong Un honouring the flag-draped coffins of North Korean soldiers killed helping Russia fight Ukraine, as Seoul’s defence ministry said Tuesday it saw no signs of further troop deployments yet...

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Russian strikes wound 12 in Ukraine

Russian strikes targeting Ukraine overnight Saturday to Sunday wounded at least 12 people, according to local authorities, prompting Kyiv to renew calls for new air defence systems...

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Russian strike kills five in Ukraine

A Russian strike on Friday killed five people and wounded 23 in Ukraine’s industrial Dnipropetrovsk region, where Moscow has stepped up fatal bombardments, authorities said.

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Ukraine, Russia exchange another group of POWs

Ukraine and Russia exchanged a new group of captured soldiers on Thursday, the latest in a series of prisoner swaps agreed at peace talks in Istanbul earlier this month...

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How Netanyahu, AIPAC outsourced Israel’s war to Trump

UNLIKE Russia’s quarrel with Kyiv or China’s claim to Taiwan, Washington’s war with Iran is not rooted in a national dispute with the US. It is a project subcontracted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his lobby group, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Donald Trump — a president addicted to flattery and drama — puffed by grandiose...

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Russian strikes kill 11 in Ukraine

Russian missiles on Tuesday crashed into schools, hospitals and kindergartens in central Ukraine, killing at least 11 and wounding dozens more in a region coming under mounting pressure...

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Russian barrage kills 10 in Kyiv

Russia fired dozens of drones and missiles at Ukraine on Monday, ripping open a housing bloc in Kyiv, killing 10 civilians and burying others beneath the rubble...

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Ukraine vows to expand strikes on Russia

Ukraine’s top military commander vowed to increase the ‘scale and depth’ of strikes on Russia in remarks made public Sunday, saying Kyiv would not sit idly by while Moscow prolonged its three-year invasion...

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Russia sent wrong bodies: Zelensky

Kyiv received the bodies of 20 Russian soldiers instead of Ukrainian ones during exchanges of war dead with Moscow, president Volodymyr Zelensky said in remarks made public Saturday.

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Teams from south have heat advantage: Kovac

Borussia Dortmund coach Niko Kovac said Friday teams from the ‘south’ have an advantage on European teams at the Club World Cup because of the current high temperatures in the United States.

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Russian strikes kill 16 in Kyiv

Russia launched dozens of drones and missiles at Kyiv in the early hours of Tuesday, killing at least 16 people and wounding dozens of others, as negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow break down...

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World faces new nuclear arms race: researchers

Most of the world’s nuclear-armed states continued to modernise their arsenals last year, setting the stage for a new nuclear arms race, researchers warned on Monday.