19 h. ago Living Nostradamus predicts Royal Family will be hit with 'ticking time bomb' crisis

Athos Salomé, who says he predicted Covid-19, the death of Queen Elizabeth II and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, reckons the family will be hit with a financial scandal

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47 h. ago Trump 'told Zelensky that Ukraine and Russia will need to reach a peace deal themselves' after his bombshell phone call with Putin in clearest sign yet he is ready to walk away from ceasefire talks

US president Donald Trump has reportedly told Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders they would have to find a solution to the invasion of Ukraine themselves. 

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3 d. ago Former Ukrainian politician shot dead outside his children’s school in Madrid

Andriy Portnov, ex-aide to pro-Russia former president, was dropping off daughters when he was targeted by gunmenA former Ukrainian politician who worked as a senior aide to the former pro-Russian president has been shot and killed outside his children’s school in an upmarket suburb of Madrid.In the latest violence to rattle Spain since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Andriy Portnov was killed on Wednesday morning outside the American School of Madrid in Pozuelo de Alarcón. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago 'Dark nightmare' erupts on International Space Station as Russians turn to 'evil'

Terry Virts, who has spent 213 days in space and was the ISS commander in 2015, said the station had been plunged into a 'dark nightmare' following Putin's Ukraine invasion

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4 d. ago Donald Trump branded 'desperate' after making surprising statement about Russia

Donald Trump has been branded 'desperate' for a Nobel Peace Prize after issuing a surprising statement on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, following a phone call with Vladimir Putin

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4 d. ago War and microplastics are new threat to bees, scientists warn

Report from University of Reading found Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has left bees without diverse food

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4 d. ago Real life Star Wars as Russians turn to 'dark side' in International Space Station 'nightmare'

Former Top Gun pilot Terry Virts, who spent 213 days in space, said the station jointly manned by Russian and American astronauts has been plunged into a ‘dark nightmare’ following Ukraine invasion

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5 d. ago Vladimir Putin 'thinks Russia is winning in Ukraine because his generals are lying to him'

Russia has suffered around a million casualties since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but Putin is not being given a full picture, western sources believe

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6 d. ago Ukraine war latest: Russia launches ‘biggest drone attack since invasion’ ahead of Trump ceasefire call

Trump says ‘hopefully it will be a productive day, a ceasefire will take place, and this very violent war ... will end'

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6 d. ago Russia launches one of biggest drone attacks on Ukraine since start of war, killing at least 1

Russia overnight into Sunday launched one of its most intense drone attacks on Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion in 2022

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8 d. ago Trump declares Ukraine peace deal won’t happen until he and Putin ‘get together’ after Turkey talks fiasco

Volodymyr Zelensky says the Russian leader’s failure to attend talks in Turkey shows he is not serious about ending Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

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1 week ago Ukraine war timeline: Key moments after Russian invasion that leads up to Putin

Volodymyr Zelensky has challenged Vladimir Putin to meet him in Istanbul, Turkey, this week in a bid to bring the conflict in Ukraine to an end - though it is not clear if the Russian leader will attend

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1 week ago European economist says Russia's economy is strained due to the Ukraine war and sanctions

A leading economist has been telling EU finance ministers that Russia’s economy is under growing strain as its invasion of Ukraine drags on

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1 week ago Zelenskyy challenges Putin to meet him for peace talks after Trump and European leaders increase pressure – Europe live

Ukrainian and Russian presidents have not communicated directly since Moscow launched invasion And the EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas is speaking now, and she’s striking a very similar tone, pointedly referring to over 100 Russian drones reportedly targeting Ukraine overnight.“We have to put pressure on Russia to really want peace and to sit down and to talk with Ukraine,” she says, accusing Moscow of “playing games.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Putin’s spokesman says Moscow will ‘continue’ invasion while blaming Ukraine for not being ‘ready’ for peace

Talks tentatively set for Thursday in Turkey as Trump seeks conclusion to war he promised he could end in 24 hours

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1 week ago Putin opens door to peace talks with Ukraine after admitting country is at war

Vlad has previously jailed critics for calling the invasion of Ukraine a war, but in a press conference on Sunday morning, he appeared to accept the country is now at war with its neighbouring nation

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1 week ago Putin should 'send himself to gulag' after admitting country is at war with with Ukraine

Vlad has previously jailed critics for calling the invasion of Ukraine a war, but in a press conference on Sunday morning, he appeared to accept the country is now at war with its neighbouring nation

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2 w. ago The slow train to peace! Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Freidrich Merz pose on a train to Ukraine as they continue to pressure Putin into agreeing to a 30

The leaders of the UK, France, and Germany are heading to Kyiv in what will be the first time the world leaders have convened in the Ukrainian capital since Russia launched its invasion in February 2022.

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2 w. ago Chinese troops march with Russian forces as Xi joins Putin for Victory Day parade

Moscow stages largest Victory Day parade since start of Ukraine war with Putin using celebrations to justify invasionRussian troops fighting in Ukraine marched together with Chinese forces on Moscow’s Red Square to mark the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat, in a Victory Day celebration marked by greater spectacle than in recent years.After several scaled-back Victory Days – with reduced military displays and few foreign guests – Vladimir Putin on Friday addressed the largest parade since his 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “The Soviet Union took upon itself the most ferocious, merciless blows of the enemy,” the Russian president said of the victory over Nazi Germany, before turning to his invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago As Putin indulges in his Victory Day parade, this is his endgame in Ukraine

World affairs editor Sam Kiley has been covering Ukraine since the Russian invasion of 2014. Here he looks at the current state of the conflict, the likelihood of a lasting ceasefire and what Russian leader Vladimir Putin is planning next

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