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Russia still willing to honour prisoner exchange

The Kremlin says Russia is still ready to honour agreements with Ukraine on a new prisoner of war exchange and on the repatriation of dead soldiers despite what it says is Kyiv’s failure to so far honour its side of the bargain. Russia accused Ukraine on Saturday of indefinitely postponing the exchanges, something Kyiv denied.

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Politics

3 hours ago

‘Stressed’ Musk mistaken in Trump challenge

The row between Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, and US President Donald Trump was triggered by stress on both sides and Elon made a mistake by publicly challenging Trump, Musk’s father has told Russian media in Moscow. Musk and Trump began exchanging insults last week on social media with Musk denouncing the president’s sweeping tax and spending bill as a “disgusting abomination”.

Reuters

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Travel

08 Jun 2025

Countdown to US travel ban

US President Donald Trump’s order banning citizens of 12 countries from entering the United States goes into effect at 12:01 am ET (0401 GMT) on Monday, a move the president promulgated to protect the country from “foreign terrorists.“ The countries affected by the latest travel ban are Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The entry of people from seven other countries - Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela - will be partially restricted.

Reuters

08 Jun 2025

Trade

08 Jun 2025

China’s rare earth changes contours of trade battlefield

China has signalled for more than 15 years that it was looking to weaponise areas of the global supply chain, a strategy modelled on longstanding American export controls Beijing views as aimed at stalling its rise. The scramble in recent weeks to secure export licences for rare earths, capped by Thursday’s telephone call between US and Chinese leaders Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, shows China has devised a better, more precisely targeted weapon for trade war. Industry executives and analysts say while China is showing signs of approving more exports of the key elements, it will not dismantle its new system. Modelled on the United States’ own, Beijing’s export licence system gives it unprecedented insight into supplier chokepoints in areas ranging from motors for electric vehicles to flight-control systems for guided missiles.

Reuters

08 Jun 2025

Ukraine

08 Jun 2025

Russia advances amid row over dead soldiers

Russia says its forces have advanced to the edge of the east-central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk amid a public row between Moscow and Kyiv over peace negotiations and the return of thousands of bodies of soldiers who fell in the war. Amid talk of peace, the war is stepping up with Russian forces grabbing more territory in Ukraine and Kyiv unfurling high-profile drone and sabotage attacks on Russia’s nuclear-capable bomber fleet and, according to Moscow, on railways.

Reuters

08 Jun 2025

Preview

08 Jun 2025

Reeves to set out £2 trillion make or break spending plan

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will allocate £86 billion in this week’s spending review to fund research and development, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) says. It said the package, funding everything from new drug treatments and longer-lasting batteries to artificial intelligence breakthroughs, would be worth over £22.5 billion a year by 2029/30, driving new jobs and economic growth. Reeves will divide more than £2 trillion of public money between her ministerial colleagues on Wednesday, making choices that will define what the year-old Labour government can achieve in the next four years.

Reuters

08 Jun 2025

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Russia still willing to honour prisoner exchange

‘Stressed’ Musk mistaken in Trump challenge

Countdown to US travel ban

China’s rare earth changes contours of trade battlefield

Russia advances amid row over dead soldiers

Reeves to set out £2 trillion make or break spending plan