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WORLD BRIEFING: April 17, 2024

Ukraine’s top military commander has issued a bleak assessment of the army’s positions on the eastern front, saying they have “worsened significantly in recent days.” Ukraine faces "danger" if the United States does not quickly pass much-needed military aid, former U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton said 

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WORLD BRIEFING: April 8, 2024

A new drone attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia power plant has raised the risk of a "major nuclear accident", the UN's atomic watchdog has warned. Israel ‘pulls out troops’ from southern Gaza as attacks enter seventh month

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WORLD BRIEFING: March 27, 2024

Russia has started supplying oil directly to North Korea in defiance of UN sanctions. Ukraine's security council secretary Oleksiy Danilov has been dismissed. Belarusian authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka said the gunmen who attacked a concert hall near Moscow last week tried to flee into his country but were unable to because of additional security measures.

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WORLD BRIEFING: February 28, 2024

French President Emmanuel Macron has openly discussed the possibility of sending European troops to Ukraine to help Kyiv win the war against Russia. Alexei Navalny will be buried at a cemetery in Moscow on Friday.

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 16, 2024

Polling in the state has shown former President Donald Trump with a substantial lead, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in a tight race for second place. The Gaza death toll now passes 24,000. Italian PM Meloni could be headed for trouble with her main ‘frenemy.’

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 13, 2024

The US carries out a new attack on a Houthi site in Yemen, a day after wider attacks led by the US and the UK. Another massive Russian missile and drone attack in Ukraine 

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WORLD BRIEFING: December 25, 2023

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says an Israeli air strike killed at least 70 people. As Ukraine celebrated Christmas on December 25 for the first time, the nation’s military said its forces shot down dozens of Iranian-made Shahed drones and claimed to have blasted another two Russian fighter jets from the sky

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WORLD BRIEFING: November 9, 2023

Voters in important U.S. states showed that Donald Trump’s attempt to return to the White House May be tougher than he expects. Israel forces appear firmly entrenched in northern Gaza as calls for a pause intensify 

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WORLD BRIEFING: October 20, 2023

Tensions high as Gazans await the opening of the crucial Rafah border crossing with Egypt. An important Ukrainian advance to the left side of the Dnipro River 

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WORLD BRIEFING: August 27, 2023

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin confirmed dead after genetic analysis of bodies found in plane crash, Russian officials say. The Zimbabwean leader knows as ‘the crocodile’ is re-elected 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: August 9, 2023

Ukrainian military officials on August 9 cited more than 30 frontline clashes amid counteroffensive operations in the past 24 hours, while Russia blamed Kyiv for what it said was a twin drone attack targeting Moscow that it "thwarted" with no casualties or damage to the capital.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: July 6, 2023

A Russian missile struck the western Ukrainian city of Lviv overnight, killing four, injuring at least 34 and causing massive property damage. The Belarusian leader says Wagner Group chief Yevgeni Prigozhin is in Russia

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WAR IN UKRAINE: July 3, 2023

The award-winning Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina has died from her injuries after a Russian missile hit a pizza restaurant in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Tuesday.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: June 18, 2023

NYT: Evidence suggests Russia blew Kakhovka dam. An investigation published by the New York Times on June 17 indicated that an explosive charge in a passageway running through the dam's concrete base detonated and destroyed the structure on June 6.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: June 16, 2023

Ukrainian counteroffensive operations are underway, and it's been hard fighting for Kyiv's forces. But Ukraine is still miles from Russia's main line of defense, and a tougher fight is probably still to come, experts say

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WAR IN UKRAINE: May 9, 2023

Russian forces launched a total of 25 Kalibr and X-101/X-555 cruise missiles overnight on May 9, the Ukrainian Air Force said in its morning update.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: April 20, 2023

Ukraine says it has received its first Patriot air-defense systems as Russia launched a fresh wave of drone attacks on Odesa and Ukrainian defenders repelled more attacks in the eastern region of Donetsk. The United States is sending Ukraine about $325 million in additional military aid, including an enormous amount of artillery rounds and ammunition

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UKRAINE WAR: April 16, 2023

On this Orthodox Easter Sunday, Russia and Ukraine completed a prisoner exchange that resulted in the return of 130 Ukrainian prisoners. 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: March 28, 2023

Ukraine shut the eastern town of Avdiivka to non-military personnel on Monday, describing it as a post-apocalyptic wasteland, as Kyiv tried to break the back of Russia's flagging winter offensive before a counter-assault of its own

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WAR IN UKRAINE: March 15, 2023

Two Russian fighter jets engaged with an unmanned U.S. military drone over the Black Sea Tuesday, causing the American aircraft to crash. At least one dead and several injured after a Russian missile strike in central Kramatorsk

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