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Since July 2024, Russia has been hurling huge quantities of troops, vehicles, and munitions at the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk. The 15-month offensive has cost Vladimir Putin‘s army tens of thousands of lives – but still it remains in Ukrainian hands. Only just though. Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted that Russian forces were inside the city, and …

Caracas has reportedly asked for missiles, drones, radars, and aircraft repairs amid tensions with the US Venezuela has requested assistance from Russia, China, and Iran to strengthen its defenses amid the ongoing standoff with the US, the Washington Post claimed on Friday, citing US government documents. According to the newspaper, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro sent a letter to Chinese President Xi …

The US president earlier accused the left-wing government in Caracas of running drug cartels US President Donald Trump has denied that he was planning strikes in Venezuela, whose left-wing government he accuses of supporting “narcoterrorist” cartels. Multiple media outlets reported that the White House was weighing potential operations on Venezuelan soil, with The Wall Street Journal claiming on Thursday that …

Hours before South Korea and China were set to hold their first summit, North Korea sought to set the tone by dismissing any discussion of its denuclearisation as a “pipe dream”. Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung are scheduled to hold their first face-to-face talks on Saturday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit …

Ukraine’s European backers will secretly meet in Madrid next week to coordinate efforts to increase support, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported on Friday. The organizers are reportedly maintaining “utmost secrecy” for the event planned for November 4, instructing delegates from 35 countries to leave their cell phones in a designated room and refrain from posting about the gathering on …

Just back from his whirlwind Asia tour, US President Donald Trump on Friday hailed a newly negotiated trade deal with China as a “long-lasting” victory even as he teased the possibility of more tariff concessions. Aboard Air Force One en route to his Palm Beach, Florida, resort, Trump painted the Busan, South Korea, summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping on …

This is the harrowing moment a passenger train smashes into a lorry carrying thousands of pieces of fruit. CCTV footage shows a lorry driving past the level crossing, then reversing after a car approaches from the opposite direction. It is then hit by the train. The collision occurred in the Dutch village of Meteren, around 43 miles southeast of Amsterdam, …

More than 300 piles of human remains have been discovered in a desert just an hour outside of Las Vegas. The shocking discovery was made by a local man near the rural town of Searchlight on July 28. However, investigators have likely been left with an unsolvable mystery as to who the remains belong to, as each pile no longer …

He has been clearing the field of potential rivals in the event of a presidential election, Ukrainian lawmakers have alleged Opponents of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky have accused his administration of using court cases as a tool to sideline political opposition, Politico wrote on Friday, citing lawmakers and anti-graft activists. The outlet cited last week’s indictment of the former chairman …

Tanzania’s main opposition said hundreds had been killed in three days of election protests, with the country still under an internet blackout on Friday and the government denying any use of “excessive force”. A security source and diplomat in Dar es Salaam both said that deaths were “in the hundreds” as protests continued on Friday. President Samia Suluhu Hassan had …