Ukrainian civilians held captive in Russia since 2014 released in huge exchange
Ukrainian civilians who have been held captive in Russia since 2014 have been released as part of a huge exchange, Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
Day: August 15, 2025
Disappointment and anger after world fails to agree plastic pollution treaty
France has joined other nations and environmental groups in slamming this week’s failure to agree a landmark treaty on tackling plastic pollution. The UN-sponsored world summit ended Friday with no consensus on a last-ditch proposal aimed at breaking …
Ukraine’s Long-Range Strikes on Oil Infrastructure Shave $74 Billion from Russian Revenue
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Hezbollah says Lebanon disarmament plan serves Israel, vows to keep weapons
Group’s leader urges government ‘not to hand over the country to an insatiable Israeli aggressor or an American tyrant’.
Trump says he wants to see a ceasefire and ‘won’t be happy if it’s not today’ – Europe live
US president says Russia needs to show willingness to seriously talk about the end of the war in Ukraine, as he travels to meeting in Anchorage, AlaskaAsked if his conversation with Trump will cover territorial issues, Trump says:“They’ll be discussed,…
Russian troops make gains in Ukraine ahead of the Putin-Trump summit
Days before the summit between leaders of Russia and the U.S. in Alaska, Moscow’s forces breached Ukrainian lines in a series of infiltrations in the country’s industrial heartland of Donetsk.
‘Three weeks ago, this town was thriving’: Ukrainians flee the front line in Putin’s frantic land grab
Putin’s aggression on the Ukrainian front line has stepped up in the recent weeks, leaving locals with little choice but to flee west. Harry Stourton reports from the eastern town of Dobropillia
USSR On Sweatshirt, Bear And Moose On TV: Scenes Ahead Of Putin-Trump Meet
A flurry of superpower-style signalling from Washington and Moscow over the war in Ukraine heralded the first U.S.-Russian summit in four years, but on the ground in Alaska there was a mix of the bizarre, the peculiar and even moose and a bear.
UnitedHealth Group shares climb as Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway discloses stake in the insurer
Shares of UnitedHealth Group are surging before the market open Friday as Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed that it recently purchased shares of the beleaguered insurer.
Israel releases video showing public humiliation of prominent Palestinian prisoner
The spectacle of Israel’s Itamar Ben-Gvir humiliating perhaps the most popular of all Palestinians in his prison cell was as unedifying as the national security minister’s extremist politics.