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Trump urges Zelenskiy to drop Crimea and NATO hopes before White House talks

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House

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Spain battles 20 major wildfires amid scorching heat

Scorching heat hampered efforts to contain 20 major wildfires across Spain on Sunday, prompting the government to deploy an additional 500 troops from the military emergency unit to support firefighting operations.

August 18, 2025 11:36 am
 

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PM's approval up, support for statehood split: polls

The percentage of voters happy with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s performance outnumbers those dissatisfied for the first time in two years, a new poll shows.

August 18, 2025 10:40 am
 

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Flash floods devastate Buner, Pakistan after rare cloudburst kills hundreds

Aziz Ahmed, a local schoolteacher in Buner, northwestern Pakistan said the thunder accompanying recent torrential rains was so loud he thought the “end of the world had come”.

August 18, 2025 9:36 am
 

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Europeans to back Zelenskiy in Washington as Trump presses Ukraine deal

European leaders will join Volodymyr Zelenskiy to meet Donald Trump in Washington, they said on Sunday, seeking to shore up Zelenskiy’s position as the U.S. president presses Ukraine to accept a quick peace deal to end Europe’s deadliest war in 80 years.

August 18, 2025 8:20 am
 

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Oil markets seen bearish after Trump-Putin Alaska meeting

Oil markets are set for a muted price reaction when they open on Sunday after U.S. President Donald Trump’s and Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s meeting in Alaska, at which Trump said a fully-fledged peace deal was the aim for Ukraine rather than a ceasefire.

August 18, 2025 7:26 am
 

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Hamas rejects Israel's Gaza relocation plan

Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Sunday that Israel’s plan to relocate residents from Gaza City constitutes a “new wave of genocide and displacement” for hundreds of thousands of residents in the area.

August 18, 2025 6:34 am
 

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Dozens injured after magnitude 6.0 quake strikes Sulawesi, Indonesia

Dozens of people were injured after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck central Sulawesi, Indonesia, early on Sunday, the country’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said.

August 17, 2025 5:32 pm
 

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Historic sniper shot in Ukraine

A Ukrainian sniper reportedly set a world record with a single long-distance kill—more than 2.5 miles—eliminating two Russian soldiers with one shot.

August 17, 2025 4:41 pm
 

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Trump tells Zelenskiy that Putin wants more of Ukraine

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Ukraine should make a deal to end the war with Russia because “Russia is a very big power, and they’re not”, after a summit where Vladimir Putin was reported to have demanded more Ukrainian land.

August 17, 2025 3:56 pm
 

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Over 300 protests held Saturday against Trump redistricting push

Pro-democracy activists and labor groups held hundreds of rallies and other events across the United States on Saturday protesting the Trump administration’s push for Texas to redraw its congressional map in favor of Republicans.

August 17, 2025 2:59 pm
 

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Outline emerges of Putin's offer to end his war in Ukraine

Russia would relinquish tiny pockets of occupied Ukraine and Kyiv would cede swathes of its eastern land which Moscow has been unable to capture, under peace proposals discussed by Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at their Alaska summit, sources briefed on Moscow’s thinking said.

August 17, 2025 10:58 am

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