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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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Two KNA members killed in gunfight with army: ISPR

At least two members of the Kuki-Chin National Army, the armed group of the Kuki-Chin National Front, were killed in a gunfight with Bangladesh Army personnel in the Polipansha-Mulfipara area under Ruma upazila in Bandarban Thursday morning...

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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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Rockets fired at Iraq airport, wound two

Two rockets struck the military section of Kirkuk airport in northern Iraq late on Monday, slightly wounding two security personnel, a senior security official said...

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Why wetlands must be restored

AT DAWN over Hakaluki Haor, the cry of Pallas’s fish eagles blends with the soft slap of paddles from early fishermen. Yet, beneath this tranquil surface lies the story of an ecosystem under siege and a nation grappling with the consequences of losing its natural flood buffers...

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MBPLC to collect tolls of Mukterpur Bridge

The Bangladesh Bridge Authority has recently signed an agreement with Mercantile Bank PLC regarding toll collection of the 6th Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge, also called Mukterpur Bridge, said a press release...

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Zelensky signs decree to exit anti-landmine treaty

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday signed a decree putting his war-torn country on track to leave the anti-landmine Ottawa Convention, according to a document published on his website...

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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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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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UK moves to ban protest group Palestine Action

The UK government announced Monday it would ban campaign group Palestine Action under anti-terror laws following a ‘disgraceful attack’ on Britain’s largest air force base last week.

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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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Kuki woman killed in Manipur

A woman from the Kuki community was killed in a crossfire between security forces and suspected Kuki militants in Chingphei village of Churachandpur district on Thursday, shortly after a gun attack left a Meitei  farmer injured in neighbouring...

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CRP founder Valerie, 2 volunteers receive British awards

The founder of the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed in Bangladesh, Valerie Taylor, along with two long-time volunteers, Janet Irene Varney and Roger Michael Varney, received recognition in the recent His Majesty The King’s Birthday Honours list for their outstanding contribution to supporting disadvantaged and disabled people in Bangladesh and the UK.

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G7 confronts Israel-Iran crisis

Group of Seven leaders, including US President Donald Trump prepared to hold talks on Monday in the Canadian Rockies, tackling issues, including whether they can find common ground on an escalating conflict between Iran and Israel.

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Russian advance nears Ukraine’s Sumy region

Despite the driving rain, a few elderly residents wander into the streets of Stets’kivka in northeast Ukraine to catch a yellow bus to go shopping in nearby Sumy, the regional capital...

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Russian advance nears Ukraine’s Sumy region

Despite the driving rain, a few elderly residents wander into the streets of Stets’kivka in northeast Ukraine to catch a yellow bus to go shopping in nearby Sumy, the regional capital.

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The folly of a war with Iran

THE neoconservatives who orchestrated the disastrous wars with Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya — and who were never held accountable for the profligate waste of $8 trillion taxpayer dollars, as well as $69 billion squandered in Ukraine — look set to lure us into yet another military fiasco with Iran...