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Eleven people killed in plane crash in northeastern France, local officials say
Eleven people were killed in a plane crash in the town of Tomblaine in northeastern France on Sunday, the local prefecture said.
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CMA CGM says its Galapagos container ship exits Strait of Hormuz
CMA CGM's Galapagos container ship exited the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday morning, the French shipping giant said.
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Ukraine returns 160 servicemen from Russian captivity, Zelenskiy says
Ukraine has brought home 160 servicemen from Russian captivity, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday.
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Russian hawks urge Putin to escalate war, drop US talks as Ukraine strikes deep
Seething over Ukrainian drone strikes and angered by what they see as a failed U.S. promise to broker an end to the war on favourable terms, Russian hardliners are urging Presiden...
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Russia's Lavrov contradicts Rubio, calls for clarity on US mediation role
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on Friday for "clarification" of the U.S. role in trying to end the war in Ukraine.
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Ukraine hits Russian chemical plant again, reports say, in heavy overnight drone attack
Ukraine struck a chemical plant in Russia's Tula region for the second time in two weeks as part of a massive wave of overnight drone attacks, according to Russian and Ukrainian ...
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Kremlin demands explanation from Apple after Russian apps removed from App Store
The Kremlin demanded an explanation from Apple on Thursday after several Russian mobile apps related to the Russian internet company VK were deleted from the U.S. tech giant's App...
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Russia says US understands you can't mediate in war while supporting one side
The Kremlin said on Thursday it valued U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to mediate in the war in Ukraine and believed the U.S. understood that it could not play that role w...
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Poland and Ukraine's difficult history creates political minefield for Tusk
As policymakers discuss Ukraine's reconstruction in Poland on Thursday, the government in Warsaw is struggling to defuse tensions over history that could hamper collaboration as Ky...
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Russia denies it is pressuring Belarus to widen Ukraine conflict
The Kremlin on Thursday denied a Wall Street Journal report that it is pressuring Belarus to support an expansion of Russia's war in Ukraine.
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Russian anti-war politician jailed for seven years over social media posts
The deputy leader of Russia's Yabloko party, which opposes the war in Ukraine, was convicted on Wednesday of spreading lies about the Russian army and jailed for seven years, in ...
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Israel insists on troops in southern Lebanon as Rubio defends Iran deal in Middle East
Israel has been battling Hezbollah in Lebanon since early March, after the militant group attacked Israel in support of Iran.
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Russia wants to know if Trump has shifted his stance on Ukraine war after G7, Lavrov says
Russia wants to know if Donald Trump has really changed his stance on the Ukraine war after French President Emmanuel Macron suggested at this month's G7 summit that the U.S. pres...
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Kremlin says it believes contacts with US over Ukraine will resume when Witkoff and Kushner become available
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were busy with other issues, but that it expected contacts with them over Ukraine would resume once...
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Russian-held Sevastopol, Moscow-controlled parts of Ukraine's Kherson grabble with power outages
The city of Sevastopol in Russia-annexed Crimea and Moscow-held parts of the Ukrainian region of Kherson were facing power outages on Wednesday, the Kremlin-installed authorities s...
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Ukraine submits updated bid for OECD membership, Zelenskiy says
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Ukraine had submitted a revised application to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a club of...
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Russia says US hasn't followed through on Trump-Putin 'understandings'
Russia has accused the United States of failing to deliver on "understandings" reached between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at a summit in Alaska last August, a shif...
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Italian prosecutors demand long jail terms for Egyptians over murder of Italian student
Italian prosecutors on Tuesday sought a life sentence for one Egyptian security officer and long jail terms for three others accused over the kidnapping, torture and murder of Ita...
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