86 m. ago Man charged with intoxication manslaughter in Texas crash involving 17 vehicles that killed 5 people

Authorities say a man has been charged with intoxication manslaughter after five people were killed and several injured in a late-night wreck in Austin, Texas, that involved over a dozen vehicles on Interstate 35

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2 h. ago Trump says he asked Putin to spare Ukrainian lives in ‘good and productive’ talks

Trump has also reportedly bowed to Russia’s demand to keep his Ukraine envoy from peace talks

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5 h. ago Trump says he personally asked Putin to spare Ukrainian lives in ‘good and productive’ talks

Trump has also reportedly bowed to Russia’s demand to keep his Ukraine envoy from peace talks

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12 h. ago Moscow hit by drone strikes after Ukraine accuses Putin of trying to derail Trump peace bid

The drone strikes mark the second concerted Ukrainian attack on Moscow in three days - and appeared to be in direct response to Putin setting multiple conditions for any ceasefire

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26 h. ago UK warns Russian economy will be ‘crippled’ without a peace deal with Ukraine

Downing Street backed Donald Trump’s warnings of ‘very bad’ financial consequences for Moscow if Vladimir Putin fails to co-operate with peace talks.

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33 h. ago Russia says its forces have retaken key Kursk town of Sudzha

Push comes as Russian and US officials gear up for meeting to discuss end to Ukraine war

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33 h. ago We can’t know if Vladimir Putin will accept a ceasefire in Ukraine. But this is what he’ll be thinking | Orysia Lutsevych

Key factors will drive the Kremlin’s decision. Can Russia fight on and for what? Or is there more benefit in allying with Donald Trump?At this stage of the crisis, it is important to be clear-sighted. The US-Ukraine meeting in Jeddah was a damage-control operation. Both parties reset relations that had been damaged, largely by Washington’s impatience. The US reversed its previous decisions in exchange for something Ukraine was ready to provide anyway: privileged access to Ukraine’s natural resource wealth and a willingness to start a peace process.It is encouraging to see renewed US-Ukraine dialogue to end the war. As Churchill said, the only thing worse than fighting with allies is fighting without them. The public mugging in the Oval Office, calling Volodymyr Zelenskyy a dictator and the pause in military and intelligence support were hard to fathom. Ukrainians wondered why President Trump was putting the blame and the pressure on the victim, and protecting the aggressor. Trump’s ...

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43 h. ago Prisoner killed fellow inmate with shattered TOILET lid and left him to die with more than 30 injuries

Sasan Rabat, 27, inflicted 30 injuries on Stefan Adi - including to his head, face and neck - during the catastrophic attack in his cell at HMP Maidstone, Kent, on December 9, 2021.

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48 h. ago 20 people charged in Nevada prison brawl in which three inmates were killed

Nevada prosecutors say 20 people in all have been charged in connection with a brawl at a maximum-security prison in eastern Nevada last year in which three inmates were killed and others were injured

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49 h. ago Scott Peterson, convicted of killing his pregnant wife, injured in prison attack

Injury reportedly took place during pickleball game at Mule Creek State Prison

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52 h. ago US will ‘have contact today’ with Russia after Ukraine peace talks

Marco Rubio said a Russian rejection of the plan would ‘make their intentions clear’.

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54 h. ago Volodymyr Zelensky issues peace deal 'red lines' as Putin plots to 'drag out' ceasefire talks

The Ukrainian President said in a new statement that his country would follow "red lines" and refuse to recognise any Russian occupied territories as belonging to Vladimir Putin

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56 h. ago 'Cherished' young footballer killed in lorry crash with road sweeper as tributes paid

Talented footballer Marshall Spelzini, 21, was a passenger in a lorry when it collided with a broken down road sweeper, killing him and injuring two others

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57 h. ago Russia hits Volodymyr Zelensky's home town with missile strike after Ukraine's massive drone attack on Moscow

The air strikes came as diplomatic talks were being held on a ceasefire plan

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58 h. ago How the UK brought Ukraine back from the brink: PM's envoy who led Troubles peace talks made desperate diplomatic push following Zelensky's White House bust

UK diplomats were 'intimately involved' in setting up the proposed 30-day ceasefire announced after a day of talks in Saudi Arabia yesterday.

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58 h. ago US aid deliveries to Ukraine back to previous levels, Polish foreign minister confirms, as Kyiv agrees to 30

US aid deliveries arriving through Polish logistics hub back to previous levels after US-Ukraine talks towards peaceUkraine agrees to 30-day ceasefireFrench European Affairs minister, Benjamin Haddad, said the European Union could go further in its response to US tariffs, though a trade war was in no-one’s interest, Reuters reported.“We have the means to go further, if we want,” Haddad told TF1 TV. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Trump to speak to Putin about ceasefire as Zelenskyy accepts 30

US president also plans to invite Ukrainian president back to the White House after Kyiv accepts US-backed ceasefire proposalAs the talks in Jeddah take place behind the closed doors, let’s catch up with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s comments at the European Parliament in Strasbourg earlier this morning.She told EU lawmakers that “the European security order is being shaken, and so many of our illusions are being shattered,” with increasingly aggressive posture from Russia and the shift in US defence policy. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Ukraine’s drone strike shows it is not helpless without US intelligence

Attack on Moscow as peace talks began was designed to reinforce Kyiv’s proposal for an air truce with RussiaUkraine’s decision to launch a drone attack into Russia as the next phase of peace negotiations involving delegations from Washington and Kyiv began is a clear demonstration that its military capacity has not yet been significantly dented by Donald Trump’s decision to withhold military intelligence last week.Russia’s defence ministry said Ukraine had attacked with 337 drones, 91 of which were aimed at Moscow and the surrounding region. Three people were reported to have been killed, all four of the Russian capital’s airports had to be closed, and local air defences were not entirely effective in repelling the assault. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago A tanker and a tram have collided at a crossing in Germany, killing 1 person

One person has been killed and several injured when a tanker collided with a tram at a crossing in southwestern Germany and both vehicles caught fire

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3 d. ago US and Ukraine hold crunch talks about how to end Putin’s invasion in Saudi Arabia

The talks come hours after Ukraine launched its largest drone attack of the war against Russia

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