3 h. ago Putin warns of ‘new escalation’ if US supplies weapons to Kyiv

Vladimir Putin has warned the US that supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles will damage relations between Washington and Moscow.

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34 h. ago American democracy might not survive another year – is Europe ready for that? | Alexander Hurst

Trapped between Putin and Trump, EU citizens understand the grave dangers facing the continent. Their leaders urgently need to face reality, tooFascism is supposed to look a certain way: black-clad, uniformed, synchronised and menacing. It is not supposed to look like an overweight president who can’t pronounce acetaminophen and who bumbles, for a full minute, about how he would have renovated the UN’s New York headquarters with marble floors, rather than a terrazzo. But as Umberto Eco remarked in his timeless essay on identifying the eternal nature of fascism: “Life is not that simple. Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises.”Historians, scholars and even some insiders from the first Trump administration have seen through the comedic quality of the disguise. They appear to have seen in Donald Trump himself and those around him, Eco’s core criteria: the call to tradition and the rejection of reason, the fear of difference, the hostility towards disagreement, th...

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39 h. ago 'A global threat': Zelensky hits out at Russia and issues stark warning after Chernobyl nuclear plant loses power... and is now running on generators

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of posing a threat to global security, after Kyiv said a Russian shelling attack cut power to the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant. 

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44 h. ago Democrats liken Trump to Putin after call to use US cities for military training

Illinois governor JB Pritzker and others condemn the US president for suggesting cities be used as military training groundsA leading Democrat has compared Donald Trump to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin after the US president told military leaders on Tuesday that the armed forces should use US cities as “training grounds”.JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, which is bracing for Trump to deploy national guard troops to his state, questioned the president’s mental health and accused him of behaving like an autocrat. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago Russia stages nationwide nuclear war alarm test amid mounting WW3 fears a day after Trump warned Putin he has more nukes than anyone else

Sirens blared with loudspeaker announcements as part of a system designed to warn the population in the event of war or a chemical or biological attack.

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66 h. ago 'This is a threat to absolutely everyone': Zelensky warns of 'critical' nuclear plant situation after Russian attacks

Moscow and Kyiv have repeatedly accused each other of risking a potentially devastating nuclear disaster by attacking the Zaporizhzhia site.

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67 h. ago Trump's nuclear warning to Moscow: President tells Kremlin America has more nukes than anyone else and confirms he sent 'lethal' submarine to the coast of Russia after Putin ally's WW3 threat

Donald Trump has threateningly reminded Russia that the US has the most nuclear weapons in the world. 

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3 d. ago Russian TV exposes Putin and Trump's Alaska chat on need of 'Trumpist Europe'

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump met in Alaska in August in a bid to end the war in Ukraine, but as it turns out, the two world leaders spoke about a lot of other things as well

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4 d. ago Russia 'using oil tankers as drone platforms' to launch attacks against Europe

As the Kremlin expands its threats towards the west Ukraine's leader warns Russia is using oil tankers as massive attack platforms from where troops can launch drone attacks against European targets

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4 d. ago Girl among four killed after Russia hits Ukraine with 600 drones and dozens of missiles in ‘brutal’ 12

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky condemns ‘vile’ Russian bombardment which injured at least 70 people

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4 d. ago UK defence chief gives verdict on Donald Trump's brutal 'paper tiger' jab at Putin

Defence Secretary John Healey told The Mirror Russia is 'not as tough as Putin likes to pretend' and said he welcomed Donald Trump's jibe

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5 d. ago Zelenskyy says Russia launched 500 drones and 40 missiles in ‘vile attack’ on Ukraine – Ukraine war live

Twelve-year-old girl among those killed in Kyiv as Ukraine president condemns ‘brutal’ Russian strikesHere are some of the latest images being sent to us over the newswires from Kyiv, where some residents have fled to metro stations for safety to escape the Russian attack:In a post to Telegram this morning, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched about 500 drones and over 40 missiles in the overnight attack on Ukraine, killing four people and damaging civilian infrastructure. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Trump and Putin are threatening to carve up Europe between them. Suddenly, it all feels a bit 1939 | Simon Tisdall

Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problemFor many people in eastern Europe, August 1939 may not feel that long ago. That was the moment Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union secretly agreed to partition Poland and forcibly subsume the sovereign Baltic republics and Finland into their totalitarian “spheres of influence”. The world knows what came next.Now the question arises: is it happening again? This time around, it’s Donald Trump’s United States and Vladimir Putin’s Russia making the big geopolitical power-play – and, once again, all of Europe is potential prey. Notwithstanding last week’s sparring over Ukraine, the two leaders’ core aims appear closely aligned.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Zelensky threatens to unleash 'blackout' attacks on Russia if Putin repeats tactic

Vladimir Putin is believed to have ordered attacks again on Ukrainian power supplies this winter and Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that Russia can expect retaliation

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6 d. ago Denmark lies more than 1,000 miles from Russia – so why would it be the target of a ‘hybrid attack’?

Copenhagen has not ruled out Russian involvement in repeated drone incidents near Denmark’s airports, particularly after their recent diplomatic history

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6 d. ago Trump, Putin, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping depicted in ‘Mount Rushmore’ at Thai shopping mall

A shopping mall in Thailand has installed a Mount Rushmore display using the faces of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping.

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6 d. ago Putin mouthpiece tells Trump to look in mirror as Russian leader 'disappointed and upset with him'

Naughty Donald Trump has upset 'disappointed and upset' Vladimir Putin with his comments about Ukraine's chances of regaining its territory, a daft Kremlin mouthpiece has said

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7 d. ago Trump doubles down on Putin 'disappointment' as he says Russia has 'gained almost no land'

Trump slammed the Russian President during a White House press conference in which he said it was "time to stop" the war, which has raged since Putin's forces invaded Ukraine in 2022

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8 d. ago Trump changed position on Putin after ‘briefing on planned Ukrainian offensive’

In the lead up to his meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, the US president met with officials advocating a tougher stance on Moscow

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8 d. ago Officials reportedly identify Dallas Ice facility shooter; DHS corrects death toll down to one person killed – live

Joshua Jahn killed one detainee and severely injured two other before taking his own life, NBC News reports, as JD Vance blames Democrats for surge in political violenceFull report – Three people shot at Texas Ice buildingTexas Ice facility shooting: what we know so far about deadly attackThe Kremlin on Wednesday brushed off a comment by US president Donald Trump describing Russia as a “paper tiger”, and said president Vladimir Putin valued his efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict.Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Russia was a bear, not a tiger, and “there is no such thing as a paper bear”. Continue reading...

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