President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders on Monday in a follow up to last week’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. While the back-to-back, high-stakes meetings between the warring leaders and their regional partners are aimed at finally bringing in an end to Russia’s …
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The end to the Russia-Ukraine war DonaldTrump promised to secure on the first day of his presidency is nowhere in sight. On Tuesday, during a televised meeting of his Cabinet, Trump admitted that attempts to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin have produced little in the way of a truce, …
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For anyone who loves free-form avant-jazz, Hyphen Dash’s new album, Basement 626, will strike the proverbial experimental chord. Over its 17 tracks, drummer Myshko Birchenko and guitarist/loops player Yevhen Puhachov stretch out into trippy, airy new-age jazz and misty-mountain soundscapes, conjuring the improvised, on-the-fly fusion instrumental records they grew up …
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It has been one week since a calamitous Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine ignited one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S.-Ukrainian relations since the 2022 Russian invasion. Overnight, Russia conducted one of its largest ever missile and drone strikes against Ukraine …
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Offset announced that he will be performing in Russia next month. His concert will oppose an ongoing boycott of Russia by his label Universal Music Group, which suspended operations in the country following the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Offset’s arena show in Moscow was on his Instagram story, where …
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A meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington on Friday turned into a shouting match in the Oval Office in front of a global audience, in an embarrassing spectacle that underscores the rift between the United States and its erstwhile European ally. The meeting was …
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Donald Trump accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of being a “dictator” on Wednesday in a rage-fueled social media post amid his administration’s push to end Russia’s war against the nation. “Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, …
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that if the U.S. decides to leave NATO, “The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent.” President Donald Trump has frequently threatened to leave the alliance. In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, Zelensky told moderator Kristen Welker that …
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first foray into international security policy hasn’t been going very well — and that’s outside of him reportedly inviting a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist overseas with him. According to a Thursday report from The Washington Post, in preparation for his first trip abroad as the Trump administration’s …
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KHARKIV —According to President Vladimir Putin, Russia is not at war. So it may have been a surprise to many Russians living near the Ukrainian border when they were invaded by foreign soldiers. “Dear Vladimir Vladimirovitch [Putin], we the residents of the Russian Federation, Kursk Oblast, Sudzhansky District, we are …
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