The White House is still aiming for a truce agreement in the Russia-Ukraine war by 20 April 2025, coinciding with Easter in both Western and Orthodox churches, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the planning. However, they acknowledge that the timeline may be delayed due to…
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Turkish President Erdogan’s main rival Ekrem Imamoglu jailed
ReutersImamoglu was detained as he was about to register to run against President Erdogan The main rival to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been formally arrested and charged with corruption.
Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, is expected to be selected as the opposition Republican…
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Russian drone kills refugee family in Kyiv – but first, Russian forces destroyed their town
A father and his five-year-old daughter who had fled frontline fighting were killed in their Kyiv home during a Russian drone attack on 23 March. The family had sought refuge in the Ukrainian capital after escaping their hometown in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
“Today, in Kyiv, a Russian attack claimed…
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One killed, another injured in Russian shelling in Sumy region
On Sunday, Russian forces targeted civilian infrastructure in the Myropillia community of the Sumy district. As a result of shelling and airstrikes, a 61-year-old woman was killed, and another person was injured.
The Sumy Regional Prosecutor’s Office announced this…
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Will Iran go nuclear now that Trump is in power – or can a deal be done?
Will Iran build its first nuclear bomb or will it reach a deal with the West? A journalist from the Euronews Persian Service examines Tehran’s options.
Iran’s nuclear activity began in the 1950s, coincidentally with American help, and within the framework of the “Atoms…
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10 ingenious inventions about to change our world forever
Predicting the future is considered a fool’s game. Yet we can’t help but wonder what ideas we’ll be talking about in the decades to come… presumably while sitting in a bar on the Moon, sipping anti-ageing, dark matter martinis.
Hundreds of scientific papers cross the BBC Science Focus news…
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Ukrainian Air Force strikes Russian troops’ staging area in Toretsk
On 21 March, the Ukrainian Air Force conducted a high-precision bombing strike in Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, targeting Russian forces from the 1st Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade’s 103rd Regiment sheltering in a building and its basement, according to the Ukrainian Army’s General Staff.
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Waltz outlines his vision for ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine
U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has stated that the first step toward a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine should be halting drone and missile strikes on energy infrastructure by both sides.
He said this in an interview with Fox News, according to…
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Erdoğan seizes geopolitical moment to snuff out democratic opposition – POLITICO
“[U.S. President Donald] Trump’s anti-democratic actions at home have fueled a global climate where autocrats elsewhere feel empowered to further crush dissent,” she said.
Trump, who regularly calls for his political opponents to be locked up, is hardly likely to lecture Erdoğan,…
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Hungary to keep blocking Ukraine’s EU accession
Hungary has reiterated its opposition to the advancement of Ukraine’s European Union accession talks, citing the ongoing violation of the rights of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine’s Transcarpathia region.
In a statement following a phone conversation with Austrian politician Beate…
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