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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: March 12, 2024

Donald Trump “will not give a penny” to Ukraine if he is re-elected US president, the far-right Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said. The EU is pushing to give Ukraine €2bn-€3bn this year from profits derived from Russia’s frozen assets.

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WORLD BRIEFING: February 22, 2024

A new U.S. intelligence assessment found it is likely that some employees of a United Nations agency that distributes aid to Palestinians took part in Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault on Israel, but says the U.S. can’t verify Israeli allegations that a larger number of U.N. workers have links to militant groups. The ex-husband of Ksenia Karelina, a dual US-Russian citizen facing a life sentence from the Kremlin for donating $50 to the Razom for Ukraine charity, has broken his silence.

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WORLD BRIEFING: December 17, 2023

France's foreign minister has called for an "immediate and durable" truce, saying "too many civilians are being killed.” Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said 104 of 112 Russian drones have been downed in the past week 

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WORLD BRIEFING: December 13, 2023

Israel pressed ahead Tuesday with an offensive against Gaza’s Hamas rulers that it says could go on for weeks or months. Ahead of a non-binding vote at the United Nations later Tuesday, Israel and the United States faced global calls for a cease-fire in Gaza. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to have left Washington empty handed in a bit to secure $61bn

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WORLD BRIEFING: December 10, 2023

Dozens of Hamas terrorists lost contact with the terror group's leadership, leaving them with no option but to lay down their weapons and surrender to Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky travels to Argentina to rally global south support. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: November 10, 2023

Israel has agreed to begin four-hour “pauses” in military operations in northern Gaza to allow humanitarian aid to get in and innocent civilians to safely get out. Meanwhile some 80,000 civilians were said to have fled from the northern to the southern parts of Gaza. A powerful Russian missile strikes a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier off Odesa

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WORLD BRIEFING: September 22, 2023

A missile strikes Russia’s naval HQ in occupied Crimea. Tensions between Delhi and Ottawa continue to escalate. Leader of Congo says time for UN peacekeepers to leave

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WAR IN UKRAINE: July 20, 2023

Overnight strikes on Odesa and Mykolaiv and Odesa caused injuries and significant damage - including to an administrative building in Odesa. Grain and corn prices rise due to a Russian blockade of the Black Sea

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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 4, 2023

Death and destruction in Sumy from a Russian drone attack. The EU is pondering concessions to Russia to keep the Black Sea grain deal alive

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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 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: June 19, 2023

Ukrainian forces had regained control of more than 100 square kilometres (38 square miles) of territory in its counteroffensive against Russian forces. The death toll from the Nova Kakhovka dam collapse last week rose to 28.

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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 15, 2023

Extremely fierce battles" are raging in parts of Ukraine as Kyiv's forces continue their counter-offensive, the country's deputy defence minister says

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WAR IN UKRAINE: May 24, 2023

Violent clashes erupted on the Russian-Ukrainian border, with Moscow accusing a Ukrainian "sabotage group" of trying to make an incursion into the country.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: April 23, 2023

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin welcomed Defense Secretary Oleksii Reznikov to the start of the 11th Ukraine Defense Contact Group summit at the Ramstein air base in Germany

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WAR IN UKRAINE: April 19, 2023

U.S. warns Russia not to touch its nuclear technology inside the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant - Europe’s largest - inside Ukraine 

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