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Ukraine must give up the entire Donbas and not be allowed to station NATO troops under Donald Trump’s plan to end the war, it has emerged. The area of eastern Ukraine, where some of the fiercest fighting during the conflict has raged, will, alongside Crimea, reportedly be recognised as de facto Russian, including by the United States. The regions of …

Bookstores and online marketplaces have reportedly halted sales of the horror novel ‘It’ over underage sexual content Stephen King’s horror novel ‘It’ has been pulled from sale in Russian bookstores and online marketplaces, according to Russian media reports on Thursday. One of the American writer’s most popular works, first published in 1986, the novel contains controversial content, including a scene …

A former Republican staffer claimed she was violently assaulted by thugs in a politically motivated attack that left her hogtied with multiple cuts and “Trump w***e” scrawled on her stomach. Natalie Greene, 26, was found on a nature trail by police screaming and crying with her hands and legs bound with zip ties, her shirt pulled over her head, dozens …

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — About a week before being interviewed by Richard Bruce Cheney about whether I would be the right person to serve as his national security briefer, I broke a bone in my left foot. While bounding down the stairs at home in a rush not to be late to a meeting at the National Security Council, I missed …

OPINION — After decades of military rule in Myanmar, free and fair general elections were permitted in 2015 and the National League for Democracy and its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, won by a landslide. In February 2021, a military coup d’etat installed General Min Aung Hlaing as the acting president, and imprisoned Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto …

Russian post-war accounting will not play out like we in the West might imagine. We are accustomed to commissions and legislative investigations after wars and major national security events, often resulting in harsh criticism for various agencies, and sweeping reforms. In Russia, however, Putin will largely give the RIS a pass. To understand why, it is important to understand the …

A passenger bus in Cambodia crashed off a bridge into a river on Thursday, killing at least 13 passengers and injuring two dozen others, police said. The bus was travelling from Siem Reap, home to the country’s fabled Angkor Wat temple complex, to the capital Phnom Penh, when it crashed in the predawn hours in the central province of Kampong …

Ukraine appears to be climbing the hill, but it hasn’t reached the summit. Kyiv’s reported first launch of an “advanced weapon” into Russia — revealed in an exclusive by the Daily Express — is a striking moment in the conflict. It marks Ukraine’s shift from a country forced to defend itself inch by inch into one now capable of hitting …

The US president has accused his former White House rival of trying to hinder his 2016 campaign with unfounded claims tying him to Moscow US President Donald Trump is attempting to revive a failed civil lawsuit that claimed then-rival Hillary Clinton tried to rig the 2016 election by linking his campaign to Russia. The 108-page suit, filed in 2022, alleged …

It would take about 30 minutes for a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to travel from Russia to the United States. If launched from a submarine, it could arrive even faster than that. Once the launch is detected and confirmed as an attack, the president is briefed. At that point, the commander-in-chief might have about two or three minutes at …