“THE DARKEST moment of this war is now,” says a Ukrainian intelligence officer. Along roads in the east, tank transporters lumber towards the front line while ambulances speed away from it. In the past few weeks the Russians have ramped up…
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Telegraph: US privately offered to provide security guarantees for Sir Keir Starmer’s “coalition of the willing”
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Loos to loaves: How the ‘nervous wees’ of London Marathon runners are being turned into fertiliser
If scaled, urine from last year’s London Marathon could have fertilised enough wheat for 3,000 loaves of bread.
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What the Pope Told Me About Politics
Only a handful of times in my life have I witnessed an instance of what could be described as perfect manners, and one of those occurred in Azerbaijan, during a period of three or four days that I spent following Pope Francis around. This was…
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How Trump Plays Into Putin’s Hands, From Ukraine to Slashing U.S. Institutions
If President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia drafted a shopping list of what he wanted from Washington, it would be hard to beat what he was offered in the first 100 days of President Trump’s new term.
Pressure on Ukraine to surrender territory to Russia? Check.
The promise of sanctions relief?…
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Has Europe’s ‘booziest’ city turned dry? Exploring Prague’s sober side
“We’ll have four beers… each!” cackled the men sitting across from me. It was 3 pm and we were technically still in the UK – albeit more than 10,000 metres in the air – but the stag weekend was already well underway.
It was hardly a surprise. For many, Czechia is synonymous with…
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How a Trump administration crackdown on foreign students unraveled
It took more than 100 lawsuits and 50 restraining orders from dozens of federal judges. But after 20 days of court losses, the Trump administration capitulated, reversing a decision that threatened the legal status of thousands of foreign students in the United States.
The Trump…
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Did Weight and Noise Make a Dominican Republic Nightclub Roof Collapse?
The first ominous signs at the Jet Set nightclub came around midnight, when sprinkles of plaster and water from the ceiling landed on some of the hundreds of bankers, politicians, civil servants and former baseball players crowded inside Santo…
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The Galapagos Postman reconnects the world one postcard at a time
Jonny Beardmore hand-delivers postcards he found in a 200-year-old unserviced mailbox in the Galapagos islands.
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FPV drone strike in Donetsk region injures four
Early on April 26, a Russian FPV drone struck a road in the Shakhove community of the Pokrovsk district, Donetsk region, injuring four people, including a 16-year-old boy.
The Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office said this in a post on Telegram, according to…
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