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Ukraine and U.S. agree on economic deal including rare earth materials, Ukrainian officials say
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and the U.S. have reached an agreement on a framework for a broad economic deal that would include access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, three senior Ukrainian officials said Tuesday.
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Ukraine agrees minerals deal with US
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Kyiv has agreed terms with Washington on a minerals deal that Ukrainian officials hope will improve relations with the Trump…
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EU spends more on Russian oil and gas than financial aid to Ukraine – report | Russia
The EU is spending more money on Russian fossil fuels than on financial aid to Ukraine, a report marking the third anniversary of the invasion has found.
EU member states bought €21.9bn (£18.1bn) of Russian oil and gas in the third year of the…
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Can Europe replace the US in Ukraine? – POLITICO
A U.S. withdrawal would not only cost Ukraine about half its arms, it would also deprive the country of many of its “most effective” ones, according to Ben Barry, senior fellow for land warfare at IISS.
Some U.S. systems such as Abrams…
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5 signs that a U.S.-Europe split is widening : NPR
Vice President JD Vance talks in front of the NATO logo at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 14.
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Ukraine: Post-war reconstruction set to cost $524 billion
The updated joint Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA4) commissioned by the Ukrainian Government, the World Bank Group, the European Commission and the UN, comes as Russia’s full-scale invasion enters its fourth year.
It covers damage…
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the UK’s Russia-Ukraine Problem — Russia in Global Affairs
Britain’s tabloid press loves to muse which party the Kremlin prefers in charge at Westminster. For years, it was thought to be a far-right party of different incarnations: Reform, UKIP, the Brexit Party, all led by Nigel Farage. The line of argument was that this…
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Ukrainian official says terms of minerals deal reached with US
What we know – and don’t know – about the US-Ukraine minerals dealpublished at 19:58 Greenwich Mean Time 25 February
Image source, Getty ImagesAs we’ve just reported, Ukraine and the US are expected to reach an agreement on a…
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The Green Anesthesia Initiative: A New Path to Sustainable Health Care
How can greener anesthesia help both patients and the environment? This is what a recent study published in The Lancer Planetary Health hopes to address as a team of researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) Medical School investigated a multitude of…
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