3 h. ago US and Ukraine sign minerals deal that solidifies investment in Kyiv’s defense against Russia

Move seals a deal to create a fund the Trump administration says will begin to repay roughly $175bn provided to UkraineThe US and Kyiv have signed an agreement to share profits and royalties from the future sale of Ukrainian minerals and rare earths, sealing a deal that Donald Trump has said will provide an economic incentive for the US to continue to invest in Ukraine’s defense and its reconstruction after he brokers a peace deal with Russia.The minerals deal, which has been the subject of tense negotiations for months and nearly fell through hours before it was signed, will establish a US-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund that the Trump administration has said will begin to repay an estimated $175bn in aid provided to Ukraine since the beginning of the war. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Trump administration signs minerals deal with Ukraine in key move for Russian peace

Agreement is aimed at centering future US engagement in Ukraine

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6 h. ago Harry Redknapp breaks silence over ‘German spy’ Tuchel as he admits it 'badly backfired'

Harry Redknapp made headlines last month when he jokingly referred to Thomas Tuchel as a 'German spy', and now has finally said what he thinks about the England boss

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6 h. ago Harry Redknapp breaks silence over 'German spy' comment aimed at Thomas Tuchel

Former Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United boss Harry Redknapp was in the headlines in March after comments he made about England manager Thomas Tuchel at a charity event

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7 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: US and Kyiv ‘ready to sign’ minerals deal amid uncertainty over last

Ukraine’s first deputy PM travels to Washington to sign deal as later reports claim US pushing Ukraine to sign extra documents Kyiv felt were not ready Ukraine and the US said they were ready to sign a minerals deal, amid reports that a last-minute obstacle injected uncertainty into the timing. “Our side is ready to sign. The Ukrainians decided last night to make some last-minute changes,” US treasury secretary Scott Bessent told reporters. “We’re sure that they will reconsider that and we are ready, if they are.”Ukraine’s first deputy prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, is on her way to the US to sign the minerals deal, according to a senior source in the Ukrainian presidency. Ukraine’s prime minister, Denis Shmyhal, said on Wednesday that the reworked deal would be signed within the next 24 hours and would have to be ratified by the Ukrainian parliament.But later reports claimed the US was pushing Ukraine to sign additional documents, but that Kyiv felt they were not ready yet. The ...

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8 h. ago Paul Hollywood rushes to pilot's aid after horror plane crash in field

A pilot has revealed that Bake Off star Paul Hollywood helped to rescue him from a plane crash in Thorne Hill Minster after plummeting his aircraft into a field

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8 h. ago Harry Redknapp says ‘German spy’ joke about Thomas Tuchel ‘badly backfired’

Former manager made comments at event in MarchSaudi Arabia is ‘a great place for a World Cup’Harry Redknapp says his description of England’s head coach, Thomas Tuchel, as a “German spy” was a “joke that badly backfired”.The 78-year-old former ­manager, who had successful spells at ­Spurs, West Ham and ­Portsmouth but never landed the England job, also talked up Eddie Howe’s credentials as the best man to lead the Three Lions. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago 'Masterpiece' war film hailed 'the best to watch' by Amazon Prime viewers

Amazon Prime Video subscribers have taken to social media to praise a Ukrainian war film, which they say is one of the best military movies to stream on the platform

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9 h. ago Gerry Adams tells defamation trial that BBC programme was ‘hatchet job’

The former Sinn Fein president criticised a BBC broadcast that aired allegations that he sanctioned the killing of British spy Denis Donaldson.

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10 h. ago Welsh Government's 'botched' bus promise will only help some teens

The pilot scheme announced as part of a deal with Lib Dem MS Jane Dodds will not currently apply to those aged 11 to 15

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11 h. ago Harry Redknapp breaks silence on Thomas Tuchel ‘joke’ after ‘German spy’ comments

Redknapp was filmed making the comments at a charity event last month

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11 h. ago US and Ukraine on the verge of signing minerals deal as key terms are revealed

Previous iterations of the deal during negotiations had said that it would include Ukrainian natural gas infrastructure, which is one of Ukraine's most valuable assets

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11 h. ago Trump and Zelensky meeting ‘indicative’ of efforts to achieve peace, says Lammy

The US and Ukrainian presidents were pictured in discussion at the Vatican over the weekend, having both travelled for Pope Francis’s funeral.

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12 h. ago A look at the nuclear rivals as Pakistan and India hint at military action over Kashmir

A deadly attack on tourists in the disputed Kashmir region last week has spiked tensions

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12 h. ago Female Ukrainian journalist killed by Russia sent back marked as 'unnamed male'

Viktoria Roshchyna’s brain, eyes, and larynx had been removed before her body was sent back to Ukraine, two and a half years after she went missing in Russian-occupied territories

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12 h. ago Europe live: Kyiv ready to sign US minerals deal within 24 hours, Ukrainian PM says

Deputy prime minister and economy minister Yulia Svyrydenko will reportedly be in Washington later today to sign the agreementIn Spain, harrowing stories have continued to emerge after much of the Iberian Peninsula was plunged into an hours-long blackout earlier this week.Jonathan Bernal, a window washer in Madrid, has detailed how he and a co-worker were cleaning the outside windows of a skyscraper when the power went out. For four hours they ended up stranded on hanging scaffolding, some 240 metres above the city. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Ukrainian spy 'tried to poison Russian military pilots with doped cake and booze'

Yegor Semenov, 34, was recruited into the Ukrainian secret service to kill graduates from an elite Russian school by carrying out a mass poisoning by poisoning bottles of Jameson's whiskey

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13 h. ago Iran executes man accused of helping Israel kill Revolutionary Guards colonel

Mohsen Langarneshin is accused of being ‘senior spy’ for Mossad, but human rights groups say he was innocentIran has executed a 36-year-old man it accused of helping the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, kill a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Tehran in 2022. Iranian state media said Mohsen Langarneshin was hanged, the usual method of execution in Iran, at Ghezel Hesar prison early on Wednesday morning.Langarneshin’s family and human rights groups insisted the former IT consultant was innocent of the charges against him and that any reported confessions were obtained by torture or blackmail. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Paul Hollywood rescues pilot after plane 'drops' out the sky in crash

The Great British Bake Off judge, 59, was in the middle of a helicopter lesson when he noticed a small plane’s emergency landing

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14 h. ago Ukrainian officials say Kyiv 'ready to sign minerals deal' with US today

Ukraine and the US are said to be close to agreeing a landmark rare earth minerals deal which will allow the Americans to plunder the eastern European nation's mines

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