Steve Witkoff - the president’s international diplomatic Mr Fixit - has failed to bring peace to the Middle East or deliver on Trump’s boast to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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Natalia Haiova, a beloved teacher in Kyiv, was known for her artistic flair

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Ukraine considers all grain produced in the four regions and Crimea - annexed by Russia in 2014 - to have been stolen by Moscow

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Watch as US envoy Steve Witkoff meets with Vladimir Putin in Moscow just days ahead of a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire deadline.

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New Delhi vows to continue buying Russian crude despite Donald Trump’s threat to hike tariffs

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A new federal rule would make it easier for companies to use drones over longer distances out of sight of the operator without having to go through a cumbersome waiver process

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The Netherlands was the first country to contribute to the Nato Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative

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Russia's move follows Trump's nuclear messaging

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NATO has started coordinating regular deliveries of large weapons packages to Ukraine, most bought from the U.S. This follows the Netherlands' announcement to provide air defense equipment and ammunition worth 500 million euros

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U.S. President Donald Trump is urging China and India to stop buying oil from Russia

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A huge grain elevator and silo in North Dakota are the site of a massive mural by an Australian artist

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Trump has threatened new sanctions if Moscow does not agree to end the war by Friday

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White House official says India ‘basically tied with China in purchasing Russian oil’ as Delhi defies sanctions threat

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A trial has begun under tight security for 19 defendants accused of involvement in last year’s shooting rampage in a Moscow concert hall that killed 149 people and wounded over 600 in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in years

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A group of countries that are part of the oil cartel OPEC+ have agreed to boost oil production, which some believe could lower oil and gasoline prices

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Askold Krushelnycky examines how Donald Trump’s fluctuating position on the Ukraine war has encouraged Kyiv to look closer to home to produce the weapons it needs to fight Russia

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Editorial: With the symbolic deployment of nuclear submarines near Russia, the US president has indicated he now understands that Moscow must not be appeased

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Russia’s space chief has visited the United States to discuss cooperation between Moscow and Washington on the International Space Station and lunar research with NASA’s acting chief, the first such face-to-face meeting in more than seven years

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President Vladimir Putin says Russia has started production of its newest hypersonic missile

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Kyiv is observing a day of mourning after a Russian drone and missile attack killed 31 people, including five children, and injured over 150

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Croatia has marked 30 years since a key war victory with a military parade

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Trump escalates his war of words with Dmitry Medvedev, who had recently warned that U.S. actions were driving the country toward direct conflict with Russia

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Ukraine’s Parliament has approved a bill tabled by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that restores the independence of two of the country’s key anti-corruption watchdogs

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Lithuania Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas stepped down on Thursday following investigations into his business dealings that prompted protests in the Baltic country’s capital calling for his resignation

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Ukrainian authorities say a Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, killed a number of people, including a 6-year-old boy, and wounded dozens of others. A large part of a nine-story residential building collapsed after it was struck.

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More than three years after they were seized from their homes, concerns are growing for three Ukrainians who worked for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

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Teams are actively exploring methods to neutralise Elon Musk's Starlink satellite constellation

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Anna Netrebko declined to condemn President Vladimir Putin over Russia's campaign against Ukraine

The European Commission says 18 EU countries have so far applied for billions of euros from a new defense fund aimed at helping Europe provide for its own security

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The Chinese military has announced plans for an annual naval exercise and a joint maritime patrol with Russian forces next month

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Pope Leo XIV has called for a renewed commitment to diplomacy to resolve conflicts

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Former Russian president and prime minister brushed off US officials’s warnings that Russia needs to begin peace deal talks to end the war in Ukraine

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The EU-U.S. tariff agreement sealed over the weekend has been described as a “dark day” for Europe and even a capitulation to American demands

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Russian glide bombs and missiles have struck a Ukrainian prison and a medical facility, killing at least 21 people

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Scientists in Mexico are testing innovative methods they hope can be employed to locate the overwhelming number of people missing due to cartel violence

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Trump has threatened to impose secondary sanctions on countries that purchase Russian oil if Vladimir Putin doesn’t end his three-year-old war on Ukraine

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The use of deepfakes to impersonate high-level officials in the U.S. presents a growing security challenge

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Putin unlikely to give in to Trump’s Friday deadline to agree ceasefire

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Kim Yo Jong says no reason for Pyongyang to discuss any issue with Seoul

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North Korea has been slowly easing curbs imposed during the pandemic

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Russia has scaled down the festivities honoring its navy citing security concerns as continuing Ukrainian drone attacks posed a challenge the Kremlin

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Officials say Russia launched 235 drones and 27 missiles in overnight attack - Zelensky vows Moscow would feel the consequences

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Russia and Ukraine have exchanged aerial attacks, resulting in two deaths in each country

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The prime minister is nervous at the prospect of possibly having to play golf with Donald Trump, but he will have much bigger problems on his mind when they meet at Turnberry, political editor David Maddox reports

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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian forces are holding back a concerted summer push by Russia’s bigger army to break through defenses along parts of the front line

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Starlink's biggest international outage on Thursday knocked tens of thousands of users offline

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