As Russian forces advance, Ukrainians in Donbas must choose to stay or go
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As Russian forces advance, Ukrainians in Donbas must choose to stay or go

Quentin SommervilleBBC News, reporting from Bilozerske in eastern Ukraine BBC travels with Ukraine’s White Angels to Bilozerske, to evacuate civilians on the front line The white armoured police van speeds into the eastern Ukrainian town of Bilozerske, a steel cage mounted across its body to protect it from Russian drones. They’d already lost one van,...

Xi-Trump call sparks hopes for stability but worries linger over tariff threats, Taiwan
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Xi-Trump call sparks hopes for stability but worries linger over tariff threats, Taiwan

Friday’s phone call between the leaders of China and the United States could deliver a marked – if fragile – improvement in stability in the world’s most consequential relationship, Chinese observers said. However, they also sounded a note of caution. One analyst highlighted serious sources of friction, such as confrontations in the South China Sea...

China says stance on North Korean denuclearization ‘remains unchanged’: Seoul
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China says stance on North Korean denuclearization ‘remains unchanged’: Seoul

China has told South Korea that its stance on North Korea issues “remains unchanged,” despite Beijing’s omission of the goal of denuclearization in recent statements, Seoul’s foreign minister said on Friday. At a press conference, Cho Hyun was asked about the gap between South Korean and Chinese readouts regarding North Korea following his talks with...

Sources — Fiziev injured, out of UFC Rio bout vs. Oliveira
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Sources — Fiziev injured, out of UFC Rio bout vs. Oliveira

Brett OkamotoSep 20, 2025, 10:16 AM ET Close Brett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather,...

Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain. Here’s how to stop him | Jonathan Freedland
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Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain. Here’s how to stop him | Jonathan Freedland

The march towards the darkness is becoming a sprint. In the US, warnings about the autocratic ambitions of Donald Trump that were once dismissed as hyperbole and hysteria now seem, if anything, too mild. Faster than most imagined, he has moved to weaken institutional checks on his power – whether the courts, the universities, the...

Ukraine says three killed in ‘massive’ Russian aerial attack
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Ukraine says three killed in ‘massive’ Russian aerial attack

At least three people have been killed and more than 30 injured in a “massive” overnight Russian aerial attack on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky says. He says regions across the country were targeted as part of a “deliberate strategy” to “intimidate civilians and destroy our infrastructure”, with one direct missile hit reported on a residential...

Why has the US grown quieter about sending its warships through the Taiwan Strait?
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Why has the US grown quieter about sending its warships through the Taiwan Strait?

The United States has stopped issuing official statements about the passage of its warships through the Taiwan Strait since Donald Trump returned to the White House – a move some analysts believe is designed to dampen down tensions with Beijing. Such transits were announced regularly while Joe Biden was president, but since Trump’s return there...