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Sir Keir Starmer says Putin would breach any deal if security arrangements are not in place to defend it
Putin would breach Ukraine deal if it is not defended, says Starmer
LONDON — Russian President Vladimir Putin would breach a peace deal with Ukraine if it is not defended, Sir Keir Starmer has said, after attending a meeting of senior military leaders in London.The UK prime minister said any agreement to stop the fighting between Russia and Ukraine would "only be lasting" if there were "security arrangements in place".He was speaking at Permanent Joint Headquarters in Northwood, London, where more than 20 countries gathered at a closed meeting to discuss proposals for troops in Ukraine to help guarantee the country's security as part of any peace deal.Sir Keir said security arrangements would make clear to Russia there would be "severe consequences if they are to breach any deal".The prime minister said the UK and its...
March 21, 2025

Putin would breach Ukraine deal if it is not defended, says Starmer

Ukrainian servicemen react after returning from captivity during a POWs exchange between Russia and Ukraine, in Chernyhiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday.
Russia and Ukraine swap hundreds of prisoners of war
KYIV — Russia and Ukraine each swapped 175 prisoners of war on Wednesday in one of the largest exchanges since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago.The released servicemen were captured in multiple regions, including Mariupol, the Azovstal steel plant, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, and even Kursk.After prisoners were released at the northern border of the two countries, they were then taken to a hospital in Ukraine's Chernihiv, where family members awaited their arrival."All of them will immediately receive the necessary medical and psychological assistance,' Zelensky said in a post on social media platform X.The Ukrainian leader expressed his gratitude toward the prisoners of war, as well as to the...
March 20, 2025

Russia and Ukraine swap hundreds of prisoners of war

US President Donald Trump held a hour-long phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky (left) on Wednesday
Trump suggests US could run Ukraine's power plants
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has held what he described as a "very good" hour-long phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, a day after speaking to Russia's President Vladimir Putin.Zelensky said afterward that he believed that "lasting peace can be achieved this year" under Trump's leadership.Possible US ownership of Ukraine's nuclear power plants was also discussed, the White House said, although Zelensky later stated this was only about the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia facility.The tone of the call seems to be in contrast to Zelensky's visit to the White House last month, in which the two leaders, along with US Vice-President JD Vance, were involved in a tense exchange.Wednesday marked the first time the two men have...
March 20, 2025

Trump suggests US could run Ukraine's power plants

Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits UK nuclear-armed submarine earlier this week
UK to host new Ukraine peacekeeping talks
LONDON — The UK is hosting a closed meeting on Thursday of senior military officers from the "coalition of the willing" as they draw up plans for a proposed peacekeeping force for Ukraine.More than 20 countries are thought to be involved.Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is expected to attend on Thursday afternoon after first visiting Barrow, where he is due to lay the keel of one of Britain's next generation of nuclear-armed submarines.Plans for a Western-led peacekeeping force for Ukraine are said to be moving to an operational phase.Senior military officers from nations that make up the "coalition of the willing", led by Britain and France, are due to discuss how this would work in practice when they gather at the UK's Permanent Joint Headquarters in...
March 20, 2025

UK to host new Ukraine peacekeeping talks

Ukrainian service personnel use searchlights as they search for drones in the sky over Kyiv on Tuesday night
Russia and Ukraine carry out attacks after Putin-Trump call
KYIV — Russia and Ukraine have launched air attacks that damaged each other's infrastructure, hours after Vladimir Putin said Russia would stop targeting Ukrainian energy sites.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia's targets included hospitals and power supplies. He said the Russian leader had in effect rejected a comprehensive ceasefire in his call on Tuesday with US President Donald Trump.Putin told Trump a full ceasefire would only work if Ukraine's allies stopped giving military assistance — a condition Ukraine's European allies have previously rejected.Officials in the southern Russian region of Krasnodar said that a Ukrainian drone attack sparked a small fire at an oil depot.Within hours of Putin agreeing to halt attacks on energy infrastructure,...
March 19, 2025

Russia and Ukraine carry out attacks after Putin-Trump call

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union, speaks during a session of the lower house of parliament on March 18, 2025, in Berlin
Germany's parliament passes historic package boosting defense spending
BERLIN — Germany's parliament on Tuesday passed a historic bill unlocking a record level of state borrowing for defence and infrastructure through amending the country's constitutionally enshrined fiscal rules.The vote made it through the parliament with 513 votes in favour — above the 489 votes required.The law still needs a two-thirds majority in the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house representing the country's states, to become law.The crucial vote in the Bundestag followed weeks of debate sparked when Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and would-be coalition partners Social Democrats (SPD) unveiled plans to unleash hundreds of billions in spending through loosening Germany's constitutionally-enshrined "debt brake."Merz faced a tense race to push...
March 19, 2025

Germany's parliament passes historic package boosting defense spending

The functional toilet was called America
Gang guilty over £4.8m gold toilet heist
LONDON — A gang has been convicted over the theft of a £4.8m gold toilet from an art exhibition at Blenheim Palace.Thieves smashed their way in and ripped out the functional toilet, hours after a glamorous launch party at the Oxfordshire stately home in September 2019.Michael Jones was found guilty of planning the burglary. Fred Doe was convicted of conspiring to sell the gold, while Bora Guccuk was cleared of the same charge.The BBC can now reveal the full criminal history of the heist gang's kingpin James Sheen. He has been jailed at least six times since 2005 and has led organised crime groups that made more than £5m from fraud and theft — money authorities have largely failed to recover.Five men were seen on CCTV carrying out the heist, but only two — Sheen and Jones —...
March 19, 2025

Gang guilty over £4.8m gold toilet heist

The legislation, supported by Orbán’s Fidesz party and their minority coalition partner the Christian Democrats, passed in a 136-27 vote.
Hungary passes law banning Pride events in new blow to LGBTQ+ rights
BUDAPEST — Hungary's parliament passed a law on Tuesday banning Pride events and allowing police to use facial recognition software to identify attendees, continuing a crackdown by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s right-wing populist party on the country's LGBTQ+ community.The legislation, supported by Orbán’s Fidesz party and their minority coalition partner the Christian Democrats, passed in a 136-27 vote. It was pushed through parliament in an accelerated procedure after being submitted only a day earlier.It amends Hungary’s law on assembly to make it an offense to hold or attend events that violate the country's contentious "child protection" legislation, which prohibits the "depiction or promotion" of homosexuality to anyone aged under...
March 19, 2025

Hungary passes law banning Pride events in new blow to LGBTQ+ rights

US President Donald Trump shakes hand with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the end of a press conference in Helsinki, 16 July, 2018
Putin rejects full ceasefire, agrees to pause attacks on Ukraine energy 
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin has rejected an immediate and full ceasefire in Ukraine, agreeing only to halt attacks on energy infrastructure, following a call with US President Donald Trump.The Russian leader declined to sign up to the comprehensive month-long ceasefire that Trump's team recently worked out with Ukrainians in Saudi Arabia.He said a comprehensive truce could only work if foreign military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine came to an end. Ukraine's European allies have previously rejected such conditions.US talks on Ukraine are due to continue on Sunday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the US envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, said.In the grinding three-year war, Russia has recently been taking back territory in its Kursk region that was occupied by a...
March 19, 2025

Putin rejects full ceasefire, agrees to pause attacks on Ukraine energy 

In this photo taken on March 16, 2025 and provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade press service, Ukrainian soldiers fire 120mm mortar towards Russian army positions
Trump says much remains to be agreed on Ukraine ceasefire with Putin
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump on Monday said that "much remains" to be agreed upon with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, ahead of a highly anticipated phone call centring on a ceasefire in Ukraine."Many elements of a final agreement have been agreed to, but much remains," Trump said.Trump confirmed on his Truth Social platform that he and Putin will speak on Tuesday morning about the proposal for a 30-day interim pause in fighting in the region.The Trump administration has been generally optimistic that it can secure Russian backing for the ceasefire agreement, which Ukraine has already agreed to."We’re going to see if we can work a peace agreement, a ceasefire and peace. And I think we’ll be able to do it,” Trump told reporters on...
March 18, 2025

Trump says much remains to be agreed on Ukraine ceasefire with Putin

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