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Russian forces make significant gains in eastern Ukraine
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Israel Gaza - live: UN ‘horror’ at mass grave at hospitals as US says Hamas ‘moved goalpost’ over ceasefire
Up to 283 bodies were found outside Nasser hospital and 30 at Al Shifa, Palestinian authorities said
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Blinken due in China seeking pressure but also stability
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was due in China on Wednesday as the United States ramps up pressure on its main rival over its support for Russia, while seeking to manage tensions between the two powers. Biden this month accused China -- a comparatively small exporter of steel to the United States -- of "cheating" on the product and told union workers he would seek higher tariffs.
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'Catch and Kill' architect details Trump-boosting scheme
In the 1990s, Donald Trump famously gossiped to the tabloids about -- who else -- himself, a headline-chaser who loved none other than to see his name in lights, or at least in the supermarket checkout line.Among the times he said he killed a story regarding Donald Trump, it centered on a Trump Tower doorman who was peddling a false claim that Trump had fathered a child out of wedlock with one of his former employees.
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Fire, evacuation after Ukraine drone attacks on Russia's Smolensk, Lipetsk
"Our region is again under attack by Ukrainian UAVs," Vasily Anokhin, the governor of the Smolensk region in Russia's west, said on the Telegram messaging app. "As a result of the enemy attack on civilian fuel and energy facilities, fires broke out in the Smolensk and Yartsevo districts," Anokhin said on the Telegram messaging app.
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Senate finally passes aid bills worth billions to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan after months of delay
The Senate passed the bill 79-18 after months of opposition from isolationist Republicans
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US military aid: what’s in the $95bn bill and why has it taken so long for Congress to pass?
On Tuesday the senate passed the long awaited foreign aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific
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Old video of a drone caught in power lines falsely linked to Iran attack
Social media posts appeared to mock Iran over a video purportedly showing one of its drones targeted for Israel caught up in a power line in Iraq. The footage has in fact circulated online since at least February 2024 -- two months before Tehran's unprecedented attack on Israel -- in reports which said it was filmed in Syria.
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