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Russian President Vladimir Putin must have ordered the Novichok nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in 2018, in an “astonishingly reckless” act that led to the death of an innocent woman, a UK public inquiry concluded on Thursday. Skripal was found along with his daughter Yulia slumped unconscious on a public bench in the southern English city of Salisbury ...

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The path ahead for Ukraine peace talks is unclear, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, after what he called “reasonably good” talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US envoys. The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Putin accepted some US proposals aimed at ending the war in Ukraine and was prepared to keep working to find a compromise. US special envoy Steve Wit...

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A 13-year-old boy executed a man found guilty of killing his family in front of a cheering crowd in Afghanistan, in a chilling detail revealed after the event. The public execution, echoing the worst days of Taliban rule, was of a man who the Supreme Court ruled had killed 13 members of the same family, including nine children and their mother. About 80,000 people, including rel...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin met US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner in the Kremlin on Tuesday for talks on a possible way to end the deadliest European conflict since World War II. Just before the meeting, Putin warned Europe that it would face swift defeat if it went to war with Russia, and he dismissed European counterpropo...

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday said it was “not fair” to exclude European allies from Ukraine reconstruction talks, as efforts to settle the war with Russia went into full swing. “The issue of money, restoration, in my opinion, I speak honestly, and we talked about it, undoubtedly, without the presence of European partners, it is not easy to accept. It is diffi...

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