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Envoys Signal No Breakthrough on Bridging Russia and Ukraine's Political and Military Differences
- GENEVA — The latest U.S.-brokered talks between envoys from Moscow and Kyiv over Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine ended Wednesday with no sign of a breakthrough and with both sides saying the talks were "difficult," as the war's fourth anniversary approaches next week. The negotiations in Switzerland were the third round of direct talks organized by the U.S., after meetings earlier this year in Abu Dhabi ...

Source: military.com
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UK's Starmer making 'a big mistake' with Chagos Islands deal: Trump
- United States President Donald Trump has criticised the United Kingdom's plan to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a day after his administration gave its official approval of the deal. Trump said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Keir Starmer was "making a big mistake" in the agreement to transfer sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius and lease the island of Diego Garcia, which is home to a UK-US ...

Source: aljazeera.com
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Trump is recruiting thousands of local officers to aid immigration effort. Some states are saying no
- Over the past 18 years, officers at Maryland's Frederick County jail have asked thousands of inmates two standard questions: What country are you a citizen of? And where were you born? If the answer was anything other than the United States, local officers deputized with special federal authority launched an investigation into whether the person was in the country illegally. Since 2008, Frederick County has turned ...

Source: news.yahoo.com
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Iran fires missiles, Khamenei threatens to sink US warship as nuclear talks start
- As the talks began, local media announced that Iran had fired live missiles towards the Strait of Hormuz Reading Time: 3 minutes Iran fired live missiles towards the Strait of Hormuz while its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that the US warship deployed in the Gulf could be sunk, as nuclear talks between the two countries started. "We constantly hear that they [the US] have sent a warship towards ...

Source: scmp.com