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WORLD BRIEFING: March 19, 2024

The UN warns that the situation in Gaza is catastrophic, with northern Gaza facing imminent famine and the rest of the Strip at risk as well. Vladimir Putin said he is open to French President Emmanuel Macron's plan to propose a ceasefire during this summer's Paris Olympics

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WORLD BRIEFING: November 14, 2023

A surprise cabinet shuffle in the UK that brings an unelected former PM to lead the Foreign Office. Gaza Strip’s hospitals “must be protected,” President Biden said. Turkey joins other countries in mass deportations of Afghan refugees. 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: June 23, 2023

Russian missile attack on Khmelnytsky overnight. Russia is 99.9% certain to quit a U.N.-brokered deal on the safe wartime passage of Black Sea grain next month because it no longer needs Ukrainian ports to export ammonia, a senior Ukrainian diplomat said.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: December 30, 2022

Russia staged another attack on Kyiv with Iranian-built drones. All five were shot down. Air defenses also destroyed 10 attack drones targeting Dnipropetrovsk & Zaporizhzhia regions. Almost half-a-million people in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa and surrounding region remain without power

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WAR IN UKRAINE: December 23, 2022

Pitched battles continue in the east, where Moscow's offensive has centered on the cities of Bakhmut and Avdiyivka in Donetsk, Ukraine's General Staff reports, as a regional official reported that Russians are leveling a famous theater to the ground in the southern city of Mariupol.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: December 19, 2022

A wave of Russian drones attacked Kyiv overnight and into the early hours of Monday morning, triggering air raid sirens twice. In all, Ukraine’s air defence managed to shoot down 30 out of 35 incoming drones.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: December 15, 2022

European Union member states failed to agree on a ninth package of Russia sanctions in talks. US citizen held since June is among dozens released in a prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: December 13, 2022

Heavy shelling and artillery fire were reported in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region overnight. Russia will continue targeting Ukraine’s power supply, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said

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WAR IN UKRAINE: November 15, 2022

Russian-occupied Melitopol was rocked by a large explosion Tuesday. President Volodymyr Zelensky presented a 10-point peace plan to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: November 13, 2022

Ukrainian officials and local residents moved to stabilize conditions in the freshly recaptured southern city of Kherson, as Russian symbols were being torn down and with the restoration of Ukrainian radio and television service and a new police presence.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: November 12, 2022

After an extraordinary offensive by Ukrainian forces, Russia evacuated some 30,000 troops from the Kherson region - along with substantial amounts of fighting equipment. Residents joined soldiers in Kherson's central square Friday evening to sing patriotic songs around a large camp fire. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed it as an "historic day.”

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WAR IN UKRAINE: September 13, 2022

Ukrainian troops retook a wide swath of territory from Russia on Monday, pushing all the way back to the northeastern border in some places, and claimed to have captured many Russian soldiers as part of a lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat. A Ukrainian presidential adviser said there were so many prisoners of war that the country was running out of space to accommodate them.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: September 8, 2022

US officials said Ukraine was making "slow but meaningful progress" against Russian forces - while Ukraine's President Zelensky said he has "good news", claiming the recapture of several settlements from Russia.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: August 21, 2022

The Russian president reportedly agrees to allow international inspectors onto occupied territory at the Zaporizhzhiya nuclear power plant. More explosions in Russian occupied Crimea.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: August 14, 2022

Ukrainian forces appear closer than ever to encircling occupied Kherson and regaining the key city in the right bank of the Dnipro River. An ammunition dump is said to have been hit by the Ukrainians.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: Aug 6, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin has met Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for talks expected to focus on Russia’s war in Ukraine. Russian forces at Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine are employing "terror tactics" by using the site to launch rocket attacks on civilians. Amid calls for her resignation, Canada’s foreign affairs minister has denied Ottawa abandoned its Ukrainian staff in Kyiv in the run-up to Russia’s invasion.

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