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Aug 18, 2025 - World

US president speaks to Russian leaders in middle of talks instead of afterwards, media reports say, as European leaders call for truce and US-Russia-Ukraine talks Trump tells Zelenskyy ceasefire not needed for Russia-Ukraine peace dealSketch: All smoke and no fire as Zelenskky emerges unbruised after Trump meetA Russian drone attack on a five-storey apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv early Monday killed five people and wounded more than a dozen others, Ukrainian authorities said.The attack, which took place just before dawn, reduced part of the building to rubble and sparked fires on at least three floors, the region’s governor Oleg Synegubov said on Telegram. Continue reading...

Aug 18, 2025 - World

The president tells reporters that an executive order scrapping mail ballots is ‘being written’ – citing debunked theories about fraud, cost and inaccuracyTrump pledges to scrap mail ballots before 2026 midtermsAn aid group that coordinates medical care in the United States for badly injured children from Gaza has said it is “distressed” by the US state department’s decision to stop issuing visitor visas for Palestinians after a far-right influencer complained directly to the secretary of state about their work.Laura Loomer, who has previously described herself as a “proud Islamophobe”, told the New York Times that she had spoken to Marco Rubio on Friday night to warn the secretary of state of what she called the threat posed by “Islamic invaders”. Continue reading...

Aug 18, 2025 - World

President Donald Trump has evolved on his demand for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, and MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace thinks she knows why. Wallace began with the Oval Office meeting on Monday between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. "Trump largely behaved himself. That counts as news," she said. When it comes to the ceasefire, however, Trump has been all over the place since Friday. "He did, though, either wittingly or unwittingly, make some news," Wallace continued. "It had to do with the necessity for a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. Listen to what Trump had to say on the topic throughout last week. And now something seemingly changed on that topic this afternoon."She played several clips of Trump promising a ceasefire. "It could be a good meeting, and we'll go a step further. We'll get it done," Trump promised on Aug. 11. "I'd like to see a ceasefire very, very quickly.""I want to see a ceasefire rapidly," Trump said on Friday. "I don't know if it's going to be today. But I'm not going to be happy if it's not today.""So, uh, we'll see what happens," Trump told Fox News, also on Friday. "I won't be happy without some form of a ceasefire." But things changed Monday afternoon. Wallace remarked that it was after he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "I don't think you need a ceasefire, you know? If you look at the deals that I settled this year, they were all at war, I didn't do any ceasefires," said Trump. "And, uh, I know that it might be good to have, but I can also understand strategically, well, one country or the other wouldn't want it. You have a ceasefire and they rebuild, and rebuild, and rebuild, and, you know. Maybe they don't want that. But if you look at the six deals that we made, peace and, you know, long-term, long-running wars, I didn't do any ceasefires."Wallace said Russia doesn't want a ceasefire. "So all of a sudden a ceasefire — I don't do ceasefires. We don't need those. Then, about an hour ago, Donald Trump shared this news on a key piece of any negotiations, security guarantees for Ukraine."See the clip below or at the link here. - YouTube www.youtube.com

Aug 18, 2025 - World

The 28-year-old son of Norway's crown princess has been charged with raping four women and several acts of violence, and risks up to 10 years in prison, a prosecutor said on Monday.

Aug 18, 2025 - World

A Hamas source told AFP on Monday that the Palestinian militants had agreed to a new proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, devastated by more than 22 months of war between the Islamist group and Israel.