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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Governor of Kamchatka Territory Vladimir Solodov in Moscow, Russia, February 17, 2025. Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
World+Biz

Putin suggests temporary administration for Ukraine to end war

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has left hundreds of thousands of dead and injured, displaced millions of people, reduced towns to rubble and triggered the sharpest confrontation...

Fire and smoke billows from the site of an air strike in Sanaa, Yemen on 19 March 2025. Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

US strikes hit targets in Yemeni capital, Houthi-run TV reports

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, February 16, 2025. Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Freed Israeli hostages urge Netanyahu to implement Gaza deal 'in full'

A member of Syrian forces stands on a military vehicle as Syrian security forces battle against a nascent insurgency by fighters from ousted leader Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, in Latakia, Syria March 7, 2025. REUTERS/Karam al-Masri
World+Biz

311 Alawite civilians killed by Syrian security forces, allies: Monitor

Ukraine may secure a ceasefire and limited security guarantees, yet lose NATO aspirations and territorial integrity. Photo: Reuters
Panorama

Ukraine War: What a US-brokered peace might look like

An explosion of a drone and tracers are seen in the sky over the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine on 17 February 2025. Reuters/Gleb Garanich
World+Biz

China's hopes to be Ukraine peacemaker collide with its goals on Trump, trade

Ukrainian service members watch while a tank (not pictured) fires toward Russian troops in the industrial area of the city of Sievierodonetsk, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, Ukraine June 20, 2022. Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

US refusing to co-sponsor UN motion backing Ukraine ahead of war anniversary, diplomats say

Journalists and other mourners gather around the bodies of four Palestinian journalists and a media worker killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp on December 26, 2024. Photo: AP/CPJ
World+Biz

Deadliest year on record for journalists; 70% killed by Israel: CPJ

A view shows an apartment building damaged by Russian military strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Pokrovsk in Donetsk region, Ukraine on 21 January 2025. Reuters/Inna Varenytsia
Europe

Russia closes in on key Ukrainian city, seeking gateway for future advances

Stranded Bangladeshi nationals repatriated from war-torn Lebanon on 18 January. Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

1,246 Bangladeshis repatriated from Lebanon; 47 arrive today

Hanna Horbachova, 55, forced to flee her home twice after the collapse of earlier ceasefires between warring parties since conflict began more than a decade ago, works inside her bakery, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine 14 January 2025. Photo: Reuters/
World+Biz

Trump the saviour? Anxious Ukrainians question president's power to end war

A Palestinian man sits amid rubble following an Israeli strike in central Gaza on 18 September 2024. Photo: Bloomberg
Supplement

Even if the wars end, the world will pay

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World+Biz

US diplomats visit Syria to meet new rulers