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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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War in Gaza must end now, urge UK, 24 allies

Britain and 24 Western allies, including Australia, Canada, France and Italy, declared on Monday that the war in Gaza ‘must end now’, arguing that civilians’ suffering had ‘reached new depths’...

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Mukti Council opposes trade deal with US

Jatiya Mukti Council on Saturday strongly opposed the ongoing process of a reciprocal trade agreement between Bangladesh and the United States...

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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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South Korea ex-president indicted

Disgraced South Korean ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol was indicted for abuse of power Saturday over his declaration of martial law last year, as investigators widened an insurrection probe...

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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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UK ruling party suspends MP in new racism row

Veteran politician Diane Abbott, the first black woman to become a British MP and a left-wing figurehead, was on Thursday again suspended from the Labour Party after repeating contentious comments about racism.

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Russia fires hundreds of drones at Ukraine

Russia fired hundreds of drones, artillery and a ballistic missile at Ukraine between late Tuesday and early Wednesday, Ukraine said, defying calls by Donald Trump to reach a peace deal.

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US will send Ukraine Patriot air defence systems: Trump

President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States would send Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine to help it fight off a Russian invasion, as his relations with Russian president Vladimir Putin soured...

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Russian drone attacks kill 4 in Ukraine

Russia fired more than 620 drones and long-range missiles overnight killing four people, Ukraine said Saturday, calling for fresh sanctions on Moscow to halt its record barrages...

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Moscow blames sanctions for Russia-UN food deal

Russia said Saturday that its agreement with the United Nations to facilitate exports of Russian food and fertilisers had collapsed due to Western sanctions over Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine...

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Russia, US hold ‘frank’ talks on Ukraine war

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US top diplomat Marco Rubio held ‘frank’ talks on the Ukraine war during a meeting Thursday, both sides said, as Washington hit out at Moscow’s lack of ‘flexibility’.

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Iran threats within UK significantly increased: Intel watchdog

The threat posed by Iran in the UK has ‘significantly increased’, with Iranian spies behind more than a dozen attempts to kill or kidnap British-based individuals since 2022, parliament’s intelligence watchdog warned Thursday...

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US to send more weapons to Ukraine: Trump

President Donald Trump has said the United States will send additional weapons to Ukraine, triggering Russian criticism after Moscow claimed new gains in its grinding war against its neighbour...

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Are we eating safe?

WHEN the stomach is full, everything feels under control. But the idea of hunger can be so painful that the renowned 20th-century Bengali poet Sukanta Bhattacharya once compared the bright full moon to nothing more than a loaf of chapati in an empty stomach. Eating is perhaps one of the most fundamental human rituals, something which we celebrate several times a...

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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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Starmer backs FM after tears in parliament

UK prime minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday said that finance minister Rachel Reeves would remain in her role for ‘a very long time to come’ after she appeared visibly upset in parliament as rumours swirled around her future...