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US and Ukraine Sign Resources Deal After Tense Negotiations

May 9, 2025

(Bloomberg) — The US and Ukraine reached a deal over access to the country’s natural resources, offering a measure of assurance to officials in Kyiv who had feared that President Donald Trump would pull back his support in peace talks with Russia. Most Read from Bloomberg The deal will grant the US privileged access to […]

Ukraine’s Crimea Lies at the Heart of Russia’s Invasion—and Trump’s Peace Plan

May 9, 2025

KYIV, Ukraine—One of the central points of tension in President Trump’s strained efforts to end the war in Ukraine is a Black Sea peninsula that Russian President Vladimir Putin has placed at the heart of his national project. For over a decade, successive U.S. administrations, including Trump’s first, decried Russia’s armed seizure of Crimea in […]

Ukrainians in Territories Occupied by Russia Wonder About Their Future : State of the World from NPR : NPR

May 9, 2025

Ukrainians in Territories Occupied by Russia Wonder About Their Future : State of the World from NPR At the heart of a potential peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is what, if any, Ukrainian territory Russia will be allowed to keep. Moscow asserts that four Ukrainian provinces are more culturally Russian than Ukrainian. We go […]

Putin’s 3-day ceasefire goes into effect ahead of Victory Day celebrations

May 9, 2025

The Russian president said the ceasefire will be in effect from May 8 to May 10. Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a signing ceremony following talks with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at the Kremlin in Moscow, May 7, 2025. Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a signing ceremony following talks with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at […]

Rights Groups Spotlight Russia’s Abuses in Crimea

May 9, 2025

Click to expand Image Crimean Tatars holding their flag during rallies near the Crimean parliament building on February 26, 2014, in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Crimea. © 2014 Baz Ratner/Reuters A series of policy discussions and events in Brussels between May 12-16, 2025, will spotlight the grave violations of international human rights […]

What to know about the Eurovision Song Contest as Switzerland prepares to host

May 9, 2025

LONDON (AP) — Get out the glitter balls, sew on the sequins and prepare to party: The Eurovision Song Contest approaches. The 69th annual musical extravaganza takes place in Basel, Switzerland in May. It will see acts from 37 countries vie for the continent’s musical crown in a contest that has been likened to a […]

Conclave: The divides behind the scenes in the Vatican

May 9, 2025

The divides behind the scenes in the Vatican ahead of the conclave 9 hours ago Share Save Aleem Maqbool Religion editor Share Save BBC The Vatican's Santa Marta guesthouse has 128 rooms. From 7 May, it will be filled with cardinals participating in the conclave to elect the next Pope. But one room in the […]

How VE Day and Putin’s war are forcing Ukrainians to relive their painful past

May 9, 2025

Mariia Sinhayevska was 11 when the Germans occupied her village, near Zaporizhzhia in south-eastern Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. She can still remember some German words from the year she spent in school under occupation. The soldiers were friendly, she said, though not if you were suspected of being a Communist or a […]

“If Missiles Are Going To Rain…”: Experts On “Cost” Of India-Pak War

May 9, 2025

As emotions run high in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack, a former diplomat has warned that public mood should not dictate a war with Pakistan. Ajay Bisaria, former high commissioner to Pakistan, highlighted the key aspects of such an action and said its timing should not be based on what the people feel. […]

Putin ally calls out Elon Musk, claims he deactivated gun-mounted Cybertruck

May 8, 2025

Before Tesla CEO Elon Musk was overseeing cuts and layoffs across the federal government, a European warlord allied with Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Musk of shutting down his machine-gun-mounted Cybertruck. Back on Aug. 17, four days after Musk endorsed then-former President Donald Trump following an assassination attempt, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov showed off the […]