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Trump to go on patrol in capital

US President Donald Trump said he would patrol the streets of Washington, DC, with the police and military, after deploying National Guard troops in the nation’s capital last week. “I’m going to be going out tonight, I think, with the police, and...

Reuters

Attack

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Ukrainian arrested over Nord Stream blasts

A Ukrainian man was arrested at a holiday bungalow in Italy on suspicion of coordinating attacks on three Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022, officials said, a breakthrough in an episode that sharpened tensions between Russia and the West. Described by both Moscow and the West as an act of sabotage, the explosions largely severed Russian gas supplies to Europe, prompting a major escalation in the Ukraine conflict and squeezing energy supplies on the continent. No one has taken responsibility for the blasts and Ukraine has denied any role. The arrest comes just as Kyiv is engaged in fraught diplomatic discussions with the United States over how to end the war in Ukraine without giving away major concessions and swathes of its own territory to Russia.

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Ukraine

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Putin lists his peace ultimatums

Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking said. The Russian...

Reuters

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Washington

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Trump to go on patrol in capital

US President Donald Trump said he would patrol the streets of Washington, DC, with the police and military, after deploying National Guard troops in the nation’s capital last week. “I’m going to be going out tonight, I think, with the police, and...

Reuters

Attack

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Ukrainian arrested over Nord Stream blasts

A Ukrainian man was arrested at a holiday bungalow in Italy on suspicion of coordinating attacks on three Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022, officials said, a breakthrough in an episode that sharpened tensions between Russia and the West. Described by both Moscow and the West as an act of sabotage, the explosions largely severed Russian gas supplies to Europe, prompting a major escalation in the Ukraine conflict and squeezing energy supplies on the continent. No one has taken responsibility for the blasts and Ukraine has denied any role. The arrest comes just as Kyiv is engaged in fraught diplomatic discussions with the United States over how to end the war in Ukraine without giving away major concessions and swathes of its own territory to Russia.

Reuters

Ukraine

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Putin lists his peace ultimatums

Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking said. The Russian...

Reuters