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Ukraine targeting Russians in information war, Kyiv says

Kyiv’s “IT army” is waging a battle for eyeballs in Russia, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov said. “Our capacity to reach the citizens of the Russian Federation to tell...

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Time for the big EU-Aussie reset

No European capital could be happier about Australia’s new leader than Paris. Labor Party chief Anthony Albanese defeated incumbent Prime Minister Scott Morrison in an election held last weekend,...

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Tory civil war as Boris Johnson faces confidence vote

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a vote of confidence in his leadership Monday evening as the Partygate scandal reaches its climax. The ruling U.K. Conservative Party erupted into open...

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Norway donates howitzers to Ukraine

Norway has donated 22 M109 tracked self-propelled howitzers, plus gear, spare parts and ammunition for the long-range weapons to the Ukrainian armed forces, the country’s ministry of defense announced...

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The Rashists from Mordor vs. the Tractor Troops: Ukraine’s new language of war

Can you tell an orc from a Macronite? With Russia’s war on Ukraine nearing its fifth month, a litany of new words have entered the local lexicon to describe the invading forces, their collaborators...

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UK inflation hits 40-year high of 9.1 percent in May

Prices in the U.K. rose at the fastest rate in 40 years in May, with inflation hitting 9.1 percent on an annual basis, the Office for National Statistics said Wednesday. Rising energy, fuel, food and...

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Get ready to cringe as Boris Johnson and Prince Charles meet at Rwanda summit

LONDON — That awkward moment when you have to play nice with the heir to the throne who’s reportedly seething at your asylum plans. Brace for some weapons-grade discomfort this week as Boris Johnson...

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Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe shot dead at 67

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was pronounced dead a few hours after he was shot while giving a speech in the western city of Nara, the Japanese broadcaster NHK reported Friday morning. NHK...

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Western leaders snub G20 photo op with Russia’s Sergey Lavrov

The absence of a picture is worth a thousand words. Foreign ministers of the G20 countries, who are meeting on the Indonesian island of Bali this week, did not take a customary group photo, after...

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Russia and Ukraine to sign Black Sea grain deal Friday, Turkey says

A deal has been reached to free grain exports blockaded by Russia in Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, according to Turkey’s government, which has been working to broker an agreement. The deal will be...

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Russian anti-war protest journalist Marina Ovsyannikova faces criminal charges

Marina Ovsyannikova, a former editor of the state-run Channel One network who denounced Moscow’s war on Ukraine during a live TV broadcast, faces criminal charges after Russia’s security services...

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UK energy bills to jump by 80 percent

Energy prices in the U.K. will increase by over 80 percent for the average household, after energy regulator Ofgem on Friday announced the price cap will rise to £3,549 per year, from £1,971, on...

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The chips are down: Putin scrambles for high-tech parts as his arsenal goes...

It’s the microchips that look set to get Vladimir Putin in the end. Six months into its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is being throttled by a severe technology deficit inflicted by sanctions. Having...

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UK inflation back down to single digits, at 9.9 percent

The U.K. consumer price inflation rose by 9.9 percent in the 12 months to August, easing slightly from 10.1 percent in July, when it reached a 40-year record, according to data released Wednesday by...

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Mass burial sites found in liberated Izyum, Ukraine says

Ukrainian authorities say they have discovered mass graves in the liberated city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region. Ukraine’s defense ministry in a social media post on Thursday published photos of the...

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Putin loses a culture battle as Russian icon Alla Pugacheva condemns Ukraine war

In a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin, pop icon Alla Pugacheva — perhaps the best-known and most-beloved Soviet-Russian singer of all time — has joined the ranks of Russia’s anti-Ukraine-war...

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Putin calls up 300,000 reservists, makes nuclear threat

Russia on Wednesday announced an immediate partial mobilization of 300,000 reservists and threatened to deploy nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine. In a pre-recorded address broadcast on state...

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Full text of Putin’s mobilization decree — translated

Russia on Wednesday announced an immediate partial mobilization of its reservists, as it faces a surging Ukrainian counteroffensive on multiple fronts of its war against Ukraine. The text of the...

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Russia has mobilized. What happens now?

Vladimir Putin has gone nuclear. Admittedly, things have not been going well. Kyiv’s counter-offensive has retaken thousands of kilometers of Russian-held territory in eastern Ukraine; Moscow’s troops...

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Kyiv calls for air defenses as Putin brings his Syria tactics to Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin turned back to his bloody, destructive playbook from Syria with a barrage of rocket attacks against civilian targets across Ukraine on Monday, ramping up pressure on...

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