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🚨 BREAKING: Leaders of the Netherlands’ four governing parties are set to hold urgent talks today as turmoil builds in The Hague over the response to the football violence.

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Ukraine’s most celebrated deserter was gunned down in a Spanish beach town.

What was he doing there? And how did he end up dead?

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Hungary’s foreign minister today lambasted the US for authorizing Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia using American-supplied long-range missiles.

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The US's decision to allow Ukraine to use long-range American missiles against targets in Russia marks a “new round of tension" in the war, the Kremlin said.

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The Finnish network company Cinia said it is investigating a broken undersea internet cable connecting Finland to Germany.

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Sweden has started to distribute copies of a booklet advising its citizens how to prepare for war, as Nordic countries teach people how to brace for a potential Russian attack.

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President Joe Biden made "a good decision" in allowing Ukraine to use weapons manufactured by the US to strike inside Russia, France's Emmanuel Macron said.

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Ukrainian and European leaders today marked 1,000 days since Russian President Vladimir Putin began his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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Early signs suggest that Moscow won’t be turning the other cheek to the US giving Ukraine permission to use long-range Western missiles against Russia.

But few in Russian society, or anywhere else, know what that means in practice.

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European leaders should be ready to send military forces to secure any Russia-Ukraine peace deal brokered by US President-elect Donald Trump, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took a swipe at any leaders attempting dialogue with Vladimir Putin to make domestic political gains, calling for more action from Europe to push Russia “towards a just peace.”

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Ukraine's military used long-range US-supplied missiles to strike Russia's Bryansk region, according to officials in Moscow and multiple US media outlets.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin today signed a revised national nuclear doctrine that expands the conditions under which Moscow may use its nuclear weapons, making it easier to justify retaliation against a NATO member for helping Ukraine.

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US President Joe Biden will allow Ukraine to use long-range US weapons inside Russia — but that comes after years of pleading from Kyiv that has seen Ukrainian forces lose ground to Russia along much of the front.

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COMMENTARY: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak says it’s possible the new US administration may enter into interconnected talks with Vladimir Putin about Ukraine, Iran and the Middle East.

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Hungary is prepared to kick its Russian oil addiction if the European Union helps bankroll its switch to other importers, according to one of the country's most senior oil and gas executives.

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Moscow has dismissed suggestions that Russia had anything to do with damaged telecoms cables in the Baltic Sea as “ridiculous.”

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The UK is scrapping five warships, along with a dozen military helicopters and drones, as part of a cost-cutting program for the army, Defence Secretary John Healey said.

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