33 h. 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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33 h. 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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3 d. ago Stirlingshire WWII veteran marks VE Day in week of his 105th birthday

“I enjoyed being in the RAF and I am proud that I served my country and the war efforts in my own small way."

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4 d. ago How Putin uses the USSR's victory in World War II to rally support for him and the war in Ukraine

Hardly any other country marks the end of World War II with the same fanfare and fervor as Russia, for which the victory over Nazi Germany 80 years ago remains a source of immense pride and a defining moment of history

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4 d. ago Judge blocks Trump from deporting Asian nationals to Libya as lawyers rush to prevent ‘immediate’ flights

Lawyers for Laotian, Vietnamese and Filipino immigrants cited ‘alarming’ reports that flights to the war-torn country were imminent

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4 d. ago China to cut interest rates in response to trade war with US

Half-point cut to be made to banks’ reserve requirement ratio and 1tn yuan released into banking systemBusiness live – latest updatesChina will cut interest rates and inject some much-needed liquidity into the domestic economy, as the country steels itself for a bruising trade war with the US.The People’s Bank of China said on Wednesday it would make a half-point cut to the banks’ reserve requirement ratio, its benchmark interest rate, and release 1tn yuan (£103.6bn) into the banking system. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago North Korean leader urges increased artillery shell production amid alignment with Russia

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for his munitions industry to boost the production of artillery shells, as the country continues to supply arms and troops to support Russia’s war on Ukraine

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5 d. ago German parliament elects Merz as chancellor in second round of voting

New leader secures 325 votes after humiliating loss in first round inflicted by 18 unnamed coalition rebelsEurope live – latest updatesThe German parliament has formally elected Friedrich Merz as the country’s 10th chancellor since the second world war, after a humiliating loss in the first round of voting that raised troubling doubts about the stability of the next coalition government.Merz secured 325 votes in the second round, just above the necessary 316. Earlier in the day 18 unnamed rebels from the newly formed alliance between his conservatives and the Social Democrats had voted to deprive him of the required majority in the secret ballot. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago 80 years after the liberation from the Nazis, the Dutch commemorate the victims of war

Trains came to a halt, cars pulled to the side of the road and no plane arrived or departed in the Netherlands as the country went silent for two minutes to remember victims of war

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1 week ago ‘Still an open wound’: damning docuseries revisits Vietnam war 50 years on

Netflix series Turning Point: The Vietnam War goes back to retrace a devastating history from multiple perspectivesThis Wednesday, 30 April, marks a full half century since the fall of Saigon. The takeover of the South Vietnamese capital, renamed Ho Chi Minh City, by North Vietnamese forces reunited a country riven by a decades-long civil war that killed more than 3 million civilians – a triumph of one vision of Vietnam’s future at the violent expense of another, with many caught perilously in between.For the US, the fall of Saigon was an indisputable humiliation and the end to what was then its longest war, one that killed over 58,000 servicemen, divided a nation and has only grown more ignominious with time. Fifty years on, the picture is clear: the Americanization of the Vietnam War was an unfathomably costly, poorly run, incomprehensibly horrific folly based on political lies and dubious intelligence. It is taught as a brief but upsetting chapter in American schools – if it’s ta...

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1 week ago The US left Vietnam 50 years ago today. The media hasn’t learned its lesson | Norman Solomon

The myth that news coverage turned Americans against the war persists. In fact, it was largely complicit in perpetuating the conflictThe last helicopter liftoff from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon on 30 April 1975 marked the end of the Vietnam war. Fifty years later, mythology about US media coverage of the war is locked into the faulty premise that news outlets were pivotal in causing Americans to turn against it. Some say that mainstream media undermined a noble war effort, while others say that coverage alerted the public to realities of an unjust war. Both assertions are wrong.Scapegoating the media fits neatly into “stab in the back” theories of Americans who can’t stand the fact that their country lost a war to impoverished Vietnamese fighters. And praising the media as catalysts for the nation’s roused conscience gives undue credit while fostering illusions about mainstream news coverage of America’s wars. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Celebrations in Ho Chi Minh City mark 50 years since end of Vietnam war

Thousands gather to see parade featuring marching troops and an air show of Russian-made fighter jets and helicoptersThousands of Vietnamese people have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war, in what the country’s communist leader said was a “victory of justice over tyranny”.Celebrations culminated in a grand parade in Ho Chi Minh City with thousands of marching troops and an airshow featuring Russian-made fighter jets and helicopters, as Vietnamese waved red flags and sang patriotic songs. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Who is Mark Carney? Canada’s prime minister who won an election fighting back against Trump

Carney has promised to stand up for his country amid trade war with the US president

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1 week ago Child killed in Russian drone attack in central Ukraine, say officials

A 12-year-old girl has died in a Russian drone attack in central Ukraine, according to officials in the war-torn country.

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1 week ago Who is Mark Carney? Canada’s prime minister who won an election in Trump’s shadow

Carney has promised to stand up for his country amid trade war with the US president

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1 week ago Pakistani minister's chilling World War Three threat that country 'has 130 nukes aimed at India'

A Pakistani government minister has warned India that their nuclear arsenal are 'not kept as models' and were 'targeted' at India as tensions rise in the disputed Kashmir region

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2 w. ago India orders ALL Pakistani nationals to leave the country and slams borders shut amid growing fears nuke

India has ordered all Pakistani nationals to leave the country within 72 hours after a militant attack in Kashmir killed 26 tourists.

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2 w. ago Spain scraps €6.6m arms order from Israeli company after outcry

Coalition allies of Pedro Sánchez said the purchase of millions of bullets jeopardised country’s efforts to hold Israel to account over war in GazaSpain has scrapped a €6.6m (£5.7m) order for millions of bullets from an Israeli company after the junior partners in its coalition government denounced it as a “flagrant breach” of the alliance agreement that jeopardised the country’s sustained efforts to hold Israel accountable for its actions in Gaza.The country’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has been one of the most outspoken critics of Israel’s conduct during the war in Gaza, questioning whether it is following international humanitarian law and calling the number of Palestinian deaths “truly unbearable”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Russia warns it 'reserves the right to nuclear weapons' against the west and warns a peacekeeping force in Ukraine will 'lead to World War Three'

Putin hawk Sergei Shoigu, secretary of the powerful Russian security council and ex-defence minister, said Russia rejected Western boots on the ground in the war-torn country.

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2 w. ago World War 3 fears as NATO country moves troops in event of Russian attack

Germany's military has approached a number of major arms firms over whether they could provide logistics support in the event of a Russian attack on NATO's eastern flank

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