Regional crisis
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Sir Keir Starmer is set to meet leaders from across Europe on Sunday for talks about peace in Ukraine. This includes Volodymyr Zelenskyy and France’s Emmanuel Macron. Starmer has spoken about his willingness to deploy troops to Ukraine in a peacekeeping capacity – although only with a security “backstop” from the US. No such guarantee…
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Both sides thanked the United Arab Emirates for their ‘humanitarian mediation efforts.’ Ukraine carried out a prisoner swap with Russia on Wednesday that saw 150 of its fighters returning home, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on his Telegram page. Footage posted by Zelenskyy showed jubilant prisoners, many wrapped in Ukrainian flags, getting off buses and being…
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Donald Trump has said he wants Iran to be “peaceful and successful” and he would “love” to make a deal with Tehran. He said he “hated” taking action against the country last time he was in the White House, adding: “They were essentially broke and they had no money for Hezbollah, they had no money…
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Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi has vowed to restore government authority in the eastern part of the country, which has been overrun by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels. Tshisekedi made the vow in a televised address on Wednesday night. The group has seized control of the key city of Goma and is advancing southward, threatening to capture more…
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Mediators are currently making progress on the issue of allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to return back to the north. Up until now, the Israeli tanks are still blocking the coastal road where people were supposed to walk into the north, and we heard some warning gunfire in the last hour or so from…
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Four female Israeli soldiers were released by Hamas on Saturday in the second hostage release of the Gaza ceasefire deal. Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy and Liri Albag were handed to the Red Cross in Gaza City. In exchange 200 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel are set to be freed. The four women were…
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More than 51,000 households have been left without gas and 1,500 apartment buildings have no heat in Moldova’s pro-Russian separatist enclave, authorities report. Transnistria, a mainly Russian-speaking separatist region along the Ukrainian border, had received Russian gas via Ukraine for decades, using it to generate electricity. But that gas was cut off along with flows…
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US President-elect Donald Trump’s second presidency – with his hawkish cabinet picks – could change the dynamics of US-Taiwan relations, as well as the calculations behind China’s strategy towards the self-ruled island, say analysts. This comes as Beijing evolves its military strategy to blockade Taiwan, a tactic that observers believe is designed to intensify pressure…
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