North Korea has threatened to exercise its right to self-defense in a statement that slammed the upcoming U.S.-South Korean military drills as a war rehearsal that would be more provocative than last year

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Since its start, the festival has grown from a weekend workshop with a handful of participants to the largest festival of its kind in Europe, lasting more than a month, with daily workshops drawing hundreds of participants and near nightly concerts attended by over 10,000 people total, according to organizers

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Conor Kennedy said he was ‘willing to die’ in Ukraine after signing up to fight in 2022. Four years later he has been accused of acting as a mercenary by a Russian court

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Ukrainian drones have struck a major refinery deep inside Russia, marking the fourth attack in three days

An annual monsoon in the ‌area is complicating salvage efforts near a nature reserve

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Reports in Russia claim the deceased is a former Ukrainian navy official who defected to Russia

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An anti-missile launch pad was left ‘ablaze and sputtering for three hours’, according to Ukraine’s military

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Earlier, Zelensky says his forces struck ‌Russia’s Novorossiysk ‌naval base with drones, ‌missiles and unmanned ‌boats

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Ukrainian leader accused Russia of using Korean ballistic missiles to exploit shortages of American air defences

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First used in the 1991 Gulf War, the US Patriot air defence system has seen demand spike sharply this year

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Ukrainian warns Putin is poised to escalate the conflict as air defences run dry

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Ukraine said the attacks on key air defence systems would allow them to strike deeper into Russia

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Nine members of the Russian team and staff were initially denied visas for the championships in Croatia

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Moscow denies Ukrainian claims that Kyiv’s forces are killing Russian troops faster than they are being recruited

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Russian athletes have been banned from international events since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022

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Ukrainian drone attack hits targets over 600 miles deep inside Russia, killing 13 people

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Donald Trump brushed off a question about Russia’s attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine, stating that the United States is “separated by an ocean.”

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It has been announced that global food prices reached their highest level in over three years last month

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Ukraine and Russia accused each other of deadly attacks on Sunday

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Ukrainian President says Ukraine has hit two more oil facilities deep inside Russia

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The drone incident was framed as the latest in a series of hybrid attacks across Europe

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South Korea says North Korea has launched an unidentified projectile toward the waters off its east coast

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Lithuania also fears Putin may be planning a ‘false flag’ strike on the Baltics

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Kyiv says that Ukraine has been supplied with a third of the air defence missiles it was given in 2025

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Flights at Germany’s Leipzig/Halle Airport were disrupted overnight as authorities investigated

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The director of a Russian drone factory was badly wounded when his car exploded

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Kyiv said it does not target civilians but is ramping up long-range strikes

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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and its region have killed over a dozen people and wounded many others.

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North Korean missiles are bigger than Russia’s

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Warehouses in several parts of Ukraine under attack overnight as Russia pounds Kyiv and surrounding regions

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An oil spill from a sanctioned tanker off Oman is expanding dramatically, reaching shorelines and spreading far out to sea

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Ukraine’s National Police has shared a video of a Russian drone appearing to “hunt down” and wound a market vendor in Kherson.

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Kyiv has not yet acknowledged killing Russian civilians on a Black Sea beach, but as it strikes deeper at Moscow, these tragedies will multiply – and that’s not the only worry, explains world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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Ukraine’s foreign minister branded the drone’s pilot as a ‘sadist’ and accused them of knowingly targeting a civilian

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