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Russian missile strike on Ukraine kills soldiers

Ukrainian officials on Monday reported an unspecified number of fatalities from a Russian missile strike on Saturday against a military training ground around 130 kilometres from the front line.

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UK, France work with Ukraine to end war

Britain and France are working with Ukraine on plans to end the fighting with Russia, prime minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday, as European leaders gathered for crisis talks after a blowout between Kyiv and Washington.

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Experts suggest closure of 4 ports

A committee of the Ministry of Shipping has recommended the complete closure of three non-profitable and inactive ports and the closure of operational activities of another one port under the Bangladesh Land Ports Authority...

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Zelensky still ready to sign minerals deal with US

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday he was still ‘ready’ to sign a minerals deal with the United States that fell through after a televised clash with president Donald Trump.

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IMF, Ukraine agree on $400M loan review

The International Monetary Fund and Ukraine reached an agreement Friday on a loan programme review that will unlock around $400 million in much-needed funds more than three years after Russia’s invasion.

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UK minister resigns over overseas aid cut

UK international development minister Anneliese Dodds on Friday said she was resigning from the Labour government over cuts to overseas aid ordered by prime minister Keir Starmer to boost defence spending.

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Zelensky at White House to sign minerals deal with Trump

Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump met Friday to sign a deal on sharing Ukraine’s mineral riches and discuss a peace deal with Russia, despite the US president recently branding his Ukrainian counterpart a dictator.

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Talks on annexed Ukrainian land non-negotiable: Russia

The Kremlin on Thursday ruled out giving back Ukrainian regions it claims to have annexed as part of a future peace deal, setting out a major red line as Russian and US officials met in Istanbul for a new round of talks aimed at normalising relations...

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Ukraine ‘agrees mineral deal with US’

Ukraine has agreed on the terms of a minerals deal with the United States and could sign it as early as Friday on a trip to Washington by president Volodymyr Zelensky, a senior Ukrainian official said...

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US opposes Ukraine territorial integrity in UN vote

UN members backed a resolution supporting Ukraine’s territorial integrity Monday, facing down staunch opposition from Washington which pushed its own language that declined to blame Russia for the war or mention Kyiv’s borders...

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Zelensky wants peace ‘this year’

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday called for ‘real, lasting peace’ this year as European leaders gathered for a summit in Kyiv on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion. Russia said it would only halt...

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UK to unveil sweeping sanctions against Russia

London will unveil a significant package of sanctions against Russia on Monday, which marks three years since the start of its war with Ukraine, UK foreign secretary David Lammy said Sunday.

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US pushes Zelensky to sign Ukraine resources deal

Trump wants Ukraine to give US companies access as compensation for the tens of billions of dollars of aid delivered under his predecessor Joe Biden, but Ukraine is seeking security guarantees from the United States in exchange for signing away precious rights to vast amounts of its natural resources and critical minerals...

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Walls close in on Zelensky

Outgunned Ukrainian forces have slowly lost territory to Russian troops over recent weeks. But in the capital Kyiv, the ground is shifting rapidly beneath president Volodymyr Zelensky’s feet...

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BARAPUKURIA: Coal stacks smoulder as power plant shuts down

Coal stacks three times the usual height, rising up to 15 meters, smouldered at the Barapukuria coal mine as the 525MW coal-fired Barapukuria power plant shut down its last two units since  February 15 due to technical glitches triggered by years of lack of maintenance...

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UKRAINE WAR: Russia, US to name negotiators

Washington said Russia and the United States will name teams to negotiate a path to ending the war in Ukraine as soon as possible, as the superpowers met on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia without Kyiv or the EU.

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Russian army captures village in eastern Ukraine

Russia’s army on Saturday claimed to have captured a village in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region close to a road linking key towns as Moscow slowly eats up territory.

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TEPCO makes space for Fukushima nuclear debris

Workers at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have started dismantling water storage tanks to free up space for tonnes of nuclear debris, 14 years after the facility was hit by a devastating tsunami.

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Singer Pratul Mukhopadhyay passes away

Renowned Bengali singer and lyricist Pratul Mukhopadhyay passed away while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Kolkata in India on Saturday.

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