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Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, in a rare direct contact since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The leaders urged renewed peace negotiations while reaffirming their support for Ukraine.

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The 74-year-old retired teacher from Michigan was released during US envoy Steve Witkoff’s visit to Russia. President Donald Trump said he had personally asked Vladimir Putin to free Hubbard, whose imprisonment followed a disputed conviction on mercenary charges linked to the war in Ukraine.

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Katie Zacharia, who took the podium for the first time on Tuesday, says she "practised international transaction law" — but is not licensed to practise law in any US state, records show.

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Former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, face a new charge in a US federal case, with prosecutors alleging torture of political opponents and American detainees. Maduro denies the allegations, which have yet to be tested at trial.

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Thirty people were killed and 18 injured after a Russian guided bomb struck two passenger buses in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, according to Ukrainian authorities. Three more people were killed in separate shelling in nearby Bilenke, bringing the wider death toll in the Kramatorsk community to 33.

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Government cites lack of consensus, introduces new law to indefinitely bar 'Track Two' MAID as March 2027 deadline is abandoned

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Nigeria has begun three days of national mourning after a Nigerian Air Force ATR-42 aircraft crashed in Ondo State while flying from Benin to Lagos. The Air Force confirmed that all 25 people on board — 20 passengers and five crew members — died in the accident.

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France Braces for Another Day of Rage in Its Schools.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has praised Indian Captain Smit Machchhar after he was stabbed by his co-pilot during a Flydubai flight carrying 174 people from Dubai to Tel Aviv. Passengers and crew helped overpower the attacker before the aircraft made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia and the passengers continued their journey to Israel.

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NASHVILLE, Tennessee — The execution of Christa Pike, a Tennessee woman convicted of murdering a fellow student three decades ago, was halted by a federal appeals court on Wednesday, just one hour before she was scheduled to receive a lethal injection.

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Italian Air Force Typhoons intercept unidentified aerial vehicle from Belarus as Poland simultaneously raises aviation alert

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Five Dead, 86 Missing After Fire Engulfs Philippines Ferry Off Palawan

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