Day: March 9, 2025

KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reaffirmed his country’s commitment to engage in a constructive dialogue with the United States representatives in Saudi Arabia next week over ways to end the war with Russia. Since taking office in January, US President Donald Trump has paused US military aid to Ukraine as well as intelligence-sharing with Kyiv. He has accused Zelensky of not being serious about reaching a peace agreement with Russia, which invaded Ukraine three years ago and has seized about 20% of its territory. “Ukraine has been seeking peace from the…

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Gusts and torrential rain have blacked out more than 300,000 properties and swamped parts of Australia’s east coast, officials said Sunday, with one driver confirmed dead and a dozen troops injured in the wild weather. After days hovering off the coast as a category 2 tropical cyclone and battering a 400-kilometre stretch of coastline, Alfred weakened into a tropical depression before making landfall on Saturday evening. But as the remnants of the cyclone moved inland, hundreds of thousands of people remained without power on Sunday, and video images showed knee-high…

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