39 h. ago Expert warning over discarded litter sparking wildfires like Arthur's Seat blaze

The extinct volcano in the capital was ablaze over the weekend.

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61 h. ago Ukrainian drone strike kills 1 in as fighting rages ahead of a planned Trump

A Russian official says a Ukrainian drone attack has killed one person and wounded two more in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region

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7 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy – don’t let Russia ‘deceive us in the details’

Clock ticking to secondary sanctions on Friday; majority still trust Zelenskyy but rating down after anti-corruption debacle. What we know on day 1,261Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia seemed “more inclined to a ceasefire” after a visit to Moscow on Wednesday by a US envoy. “The pressure on them works. But the main thing is that they do not deceive us in the details – neither us nor the US,” Ukraine’s president said in his nightly address.Despite the engagement, sanctions targeting Russian oil “are still expected to be implemented on Friday”, a senior Trump administration official said on Wednesday, according to Reuters. Separately, Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, said he did not want to exaggerate the progress made during Steve Witkoff’s talks with Putin. Many “impediments” remained, especially Russia’s territorial claims, and there was no concrete proposal for a ceasefire. There have been unconfirmed reports that the Kremlin could propose a halt to long-range strikes by both...

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7 d. ago Trump threatens India with 50% tariffs for buying Russian oil

An Indian government source said it needs to gradually repair ties with the U.S. and engage more with the BRICS bloc

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7 d. ago Donald Trump warns Russia ‘extraordinary threat to United States’ as top negotiator meets Vladimir Putin

The US President has issued an executive order hitting India with an additional 25 per cent tariff over its purchases of Russian oil

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7 d. ago Donald Trump warns Russia ‘extraordinary threat to US’ as meeting with Vladimir Putin set for next week

The US President has issued an executive order hitting India with an additional 25 per cent tariff over its purchases of Russian oil

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7 d. ago US imposes additional 25% tariff on India for importing Russian oil – Europe live

Announcement comes after US special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Vladimir Putin in MoscowWe are getting first pictures from inside the Kremlin showing Russia’s Putin welcoming Witkoff for their talks.Earlier today, Witkoff also went for a walk through Zaryadye Park near the Kremlin with Kirill Dmitriev, the Russian president’s envoy for investment and economic cooperation, AP reported, pointing to footage aired by Tass. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Watch: Illegal firework display on Hammersmith Bridge sparks blaze at nearby school

Two men have been arrested after an illegal firework display on Hammersmith Bridge sparked a fire at a nearby school on Sunday evening (3 August).

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8 d. ago A look at the top buyers of Russian oil as Trump pressures China and India to stop buying it

U.S. President Donald Trump is urging China and India to stop buying oil from Russia

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8 d. ago India calls Trump’s tariff threat over Russian oil purchases ‘unjustified’

New Delhi lambasts US and EU saying ‘very nations criticising India are themselves indulging in trade with Russia’

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9 d. ago Russian influencers pose for social media video in front of burning oil depot hit by Ukraine strike... and are made to pay the price by Putin's officials

Two Russian young women and a man were ordered to make a humbling public apology for a video posing with a burning oil depot after a major Ukrainian oil strike

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9 d. ago 'Football fans' arrested after illegal Hammersmith Bridge fireworks display sparks blaze near homes

Men with flares detained by police after being tracked by council CCTV to Hammersmith town centre

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9 d. ago Top Trump aide says India financing Putin’s war in Ukraine by buying Russian oil

White House official says India ‘basically tied with China in purchasing Russian oil’ as Delhi defies sanctions threat

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1 week ago Ukraine war briefing: Top Trump aide accuses India of financing Russian war by buying oil

Stephen Miller says it’s astonishing that ‘India is basically tied with China in purchasing Russian oil’; 120 firefighters needed to put out blaze at Sochi oil depot. What we know on day 1,258See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageA top aide to President Donald Trump has accused India of financing Russia’s war in Ukraine by buying oil from Moscow, after the US leader escalated pressure on Delhi to stop buying Russian oil. “What he [Trump] said very clearly is that it is not acceptable for India to continue financing this war by purchasing the oil from Russia,” said Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff at the White House and one of the US president’s most influential aides. Miller’s criticism on Sunday was some of the strongest yet by the Trump administration about one of the US’s major partners in the Indo-Pacific. “People will be shocked to learn that India is basically tied with China in purchasing Russian oil. That’s an astonishing fact,” Miller said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning ...

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1 week ago Ukrainian drone attack sparks blaze at oil refinery in Russia

An overnight Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at an oil refinery in Sochi, Russia.

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1 week ago Ukrainian attack sparks blaze at Russian oil depot as countries trade strikes

Video shows black smoke pouring from facility in Sochi, while Russian attack on Mykolaiv wounds seven peopleAn overnight Ukrainian drone attack on an oil depot near the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi has ignited a raging fire, as the two countries traded strikes at the end of one of the deadliest weeks in Ukraine in recent months.More than 120 firefighters were trying to put out the blaze, said the regional governor, Veniamin Kondratyev, as emergency officials reported a fuel tank with a capacity of 2,000 cubic metres (70,000 cubic feet) was burning. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Russian oil depot in Sochi set ablaze by Ukrainian drone strike

Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomes long-range attack on Black Sea facility as drone and missile exchanges continue

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3 w. ago Russia launches ‘hellish’ aerial attack on eastern Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad

Six-hour bombardment of the strategic hub in the Dnipropetrovsk region came at the same time as airstrikes killed one person in OdesaRussia launched its biggest ever attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad early on Saturday, as part of a large wave of strikes across the country involving hundreds of kamikaze drones and ballistic missiles.The six-hour bombardment was the worst in the city’s history. The head of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Sergey Lysak, said a factory was damaged, a fire station destroyed and a five-storey residential building hit. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: EU and UK increase sanctions on Russia as drone strike on Odesa kills one

EU agrees 18th package of sanctions against Moscow, including a moving price cap on Russian oil 15% below market rates. What we know on day 1,242One person was killed and at least one apartment building set alight in Odesa after Russian forces staged a mass drone attack on the Ukrainian Black Sea port. The city’s mayor, Gennadiy Trukhanov, said at least 20 drones had converged on the city. “Civilian infrastructure was damaged as a result of the attack. A residential high-rise building is on fire” and rescuers were pulling people out, he said. The Odesa region’s emergency service said later that five people were rescued from burning apartments but “one rescued woman died”.The Russian defence ministry said its air defence systems destroyed 87 Ukrainian drones in a five-hour period on Friday evening, including over the Bryansk region bordering northern Ukraine and the Moscow region. Russian aviation authorities were once again forced to suspend flights at Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo ai...

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3 w. ago London also slashes price cap on Russian oil to $47.60 per barrel after EU's sanctions adoption

London also slashes price cap on Russian oil to $47.60 per barrel after EU's sanctions adoption  Euromaidan Press

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