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World Briefing: August 29, 2024

Five more Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in a second day of raids in the occupied West Bank, with the UN calling for de-escalation. The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games opening ceremony began in glorious conditions as about 4,400 athletes arrived. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: July 1, 2024

The far right makes big gains in the French parliamentary election first round, according to exit polls. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Sunday presented a new alliance with Austria's far-right Freedom Party and the main Czech opposition party, which hopes to attract other partners and become the biggest hard right-wing group in the European Parliament

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WORLD BRIEFING: April 10, 2024

Europe must prepare for potential war, as a full-scale conflict on the continent beyond Ukraine is “no longer a fantasy”, the EU’s chief diplomat has warned. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to the war in Gaza is a “mistake,” said US president Joe Biden

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 16, 2024

Polling in the state has shown former President Donald Trump with a substantial lead, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in a tight race for second place. The Gaza death toll now passes 24,000. Italian PM Meloni could be headed for trouble with her main ‘frenemy.’

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WORLD BRIEFING: November 10, 2023

Israel has agreed to begin four-hour “pauses” in military operations in northern Gaza to allow humanitarian aid to get in and innocent civilians to safely get out. Meanwhile some 80,000 civilians were said to have fled from the northern to the southern parts of Gaza. A powerful Russian missile strikes a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier off Odesa

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WORLD BRIEFING: October 20, 2023

Tensions high as Gazans await the opening of the crucial Rafah border crossing with Egypt. An important Ukrainian advance to the left side of the Dnipro River 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: July 6, 2023

A Russian missile struck the western Ukrainian city of Lviv overnight, killing four, injuring at least 34 and causing massive property damage. The Belarusian leader says Wagner Group chief Yevgeni Prigozhin is in Russia

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WAR IN UKRAINE: July 3, 2023

The award-winning Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina has died from her injuries after a Russian missile hit a pizza restaurant in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Tuesday.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: May 9, 2023

Russian forces launched a total of 25 Kalibr and X-101/X-555 cruise missiles overnight on May 9, the Ukrainian Air Force said in its morning update.

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UKRAINE WAR: April 16, 2023

On this Orthodox Easter Sunday, Russia and Ukraine completed a prisoner exchange that resulted in the return of 130 Ukrainian prisoners. 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: March 28, 2023

Ukraine shut the eastern town of Avdiivka to non-military personnel on Monday, describing it as a post-apocalyptic wasteland, as Kyiv tried to break the back of Russia's flagging winter offensive before a counter-assault of its own

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WAR IN UKRAINE: March 12, 2023

Russian forces are continuing to press their offensive in the area around Ukraine’s Donetsk region city of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian military reported on March 11. Media in Finland have reported that the Prime Minister is prepared to discuss providing U.S.-made fighter jets to Ukraine.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: March 1, 2023

Russia attacked Ukraine from the north with four "Shahed" drones: all of them were destroyed, the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported. Over the course of the past day, Russian troops shelled the Kherson region 86 times, Kherson nine times. Five people died, seven were injured.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: February 24, 2023

Today marks exactly one year since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Plenty of passionate pledges of support towards Ukraine from western capitals, but Kyiv is still very short of what it needs. 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: February 11, 2023

Ukrainians across the country woke up Friday to air raid sirens which lasted most of the day. Russian sent dozens of missiles and drones towards major cities just as President Zelensky returned home from a European tour. 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: February 7, 2023

There will be no dismissals or appointments at the Defense Ministry this week, a Ukrainian lawmaker said this week. Hundreds of thousands still without power in Odesa

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WAR IN UKRAINE: February 6, 2023

Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges (Ret.) says the Russian-occupied region of Crimea could be a decisive area for the Ukrainian military in the next phase of the war. Kharkiv gets a pounding from a Russian missile strike. 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: February 4, 2023

A new package of US military aid provided Ukraine with more longer range weapons. Questions emerge over the timeline of Ukrainian accession to the EU. 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: January 21, 2023

Germany failed to reach an agreement with its key Western allies on sending Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, despite growing pressure to step up its military aid and pleas from Kyiv for more weapons. However the more than dozen European countries with the tanks are moving towards a work around. 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: January 17, 2023

In Dnipro, a child's body was recovered from the rubble, bringing the number of dead to 41. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the new commander of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Valeriy Gerasimov, to seize the Donbas by March

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