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Antony Blinken will return this week to the Middle East as the U.S. hopes to find a way to extend a cease-fire in Gaza and get more hostages released, the State Department said Monday. It will be his third trip to the region since Israel's war with Hamas began last month. Blinken will travel to Israel and the West Bank after attending Ukraine-focused meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday in Brussels and Skopje, North Macedonia, where foreign ministers from NATO and the Organization for Peace and Security in Europe are gathering.

Kyiv Monday after being stuck in a Dutch museum for nine years, where they were on show when Russia seized the Black Sea peninsula in 2014. Ukraine hailed the arrival of the jewels in the midst of the Russian full-scale 2022 invasion as a victory for its «identity and freedom». The Scythian artefacts — some around 2,000 years old — were on loan to Amsterdam's Allard Pierson museum when they suddenly were at the centre of a geopolitical crisis following Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. Years of legal battles ensued, with both Kyiv and Moscow-controlled Crimean museums filing suits that the jewels should be in their hands, before the Dutch Supreme Court ruled this summer they should go to Ukraine. «After almost 10 years of trials, artefacts from four museums of Crimea… returned to Ukraine,» the National Museum of the History of Ukraine (NMHU) said on its website. «They will be kept in the NMHU until the de-occupation of Crimea,» it added. Their return comes 21 months into Moscow's offensive, and is a symbolic win for Ukraine, which has repeatedly vowed to retake Crimea.

By Christian Kraemer

Russian crude. The region’s imports of diesel from India, one of the biggest buyers of Russian crude, are on course to soar to 305,000 barrels a day, the most since at least January 2017, data from market-intelligence firm Kpler show. While it’s not possible to say with certainty that the molecules originated in Russia — India also processes oil from elsewhere — Moscow’s deliveries have given Indian refineries the ability to produce abundant diesel and boost exports.

While it’s not possible to say with certainty that the molecules originated in Russia — India also processes oil from elsewhere — Moscow’s deliveries have given Indian refineries an ability to produce abundant diesel and boost exports. Arrivals into Europe in November include a rare shipment from Mumbai-based Nayara Energy Ltd., which imported almost 60% of its crude from Russia this year, according to Kpler. Reliance Industries Ltd., Europe’s top supplier of Indian diesel, draws more than third of its crude from Russia, the figures show. The surge in diesel imports from India also illustrates a fundamental shift in oil trading in the wake of the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine. A year ago, Russia was Europe’s top supplier of diesel, a fuel vital to the industrial and transport sectors. The European Union banned most seaborne imports of Russian crude in December and oil products in February.

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Facebook, Instagram and X — formerly known as Twitter — were popular with young Russians before the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but have since been blocked in the country as part of a broad crackdown on independent media and other forms of critical speech. They are now only accessible via VPN.

author to win the prize while the last Irish writer Anna Burns won the award in 2018. Booker Prize is awarded to the best novel of fiction written in English and published in UK and Ireland.

Russia on Sunday put Meta Platforms spokesperson Andy Stone on a wanted list on unspecified charges as the US social media giant — which owns Facebook — is classed as "extremist" by Moscow. Russia has hugely cracked down on media and social media freedom since launching its Ukraine offensive last year and banning criticism of it.

₹3.1 lakh crore) in new investments. Around £10 billion (around ₹1.05 lakh crore) of this had been previously announced. The debate over austerity is particularly sensitive for Sunak as he aims to bridge a significant polling gap with the opposition Labour Party.

KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday thanked Ukraine's military for fighting Russian attacks and its rescue services for tackling the consequences of extreme winter weather that he said had deprived about 400 settlements in 10 regions of power.

Russian Ministry of Interior, saying, "Andy Mark Stone is wanted under an article of the Russian Criminal Code." "The database does not indicate the specific article for the search. It follows from the file in the Ministry of Interior’s database, Stone was repeatedly placed on the wanted list," the report added. In March 2022 the Russian investigative committee said it had opened a criminal investigation against the "illegal actions of Meta's employees".

Russia thwarted a Ukrainian attack on Russian regions involving at least 24 drones and two missiles, the Russian defence ministry said on Sunday. The ministry said that Ukrainian drones were shot down over Moscow, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk and Bryansk. It also said Russian air defences shot down two Ukrainian S-200 surface-to-air missiles that had been adapted to hit land targets.

As the war in Ukraine grinds into its second winter, a growing number of Russian soldiers want out, audio intercepts obtained and verified by The Associated Press indicate. Russian soldiers speak in shorthand of 200s to mean dead, 300s to mean wounded. The urge to flee has become common enough that they also talk of 500s — people who refuse to fight. These conversations also show clearly how the war has progressed, from the professional soldiers who initially powered Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion to men from all walks of life compelled to serve in grueling conditions. The verified the identities of people in the calls by speaking with relatives and soldiers — some of whom are still at war in Ukraine — and researching open-source material linked to the phone numbers used by the soldiers.

By Max Hunder

#1 ...and as you said, AI is creating one heck of a buzz worldwide. It's got everyone more worked up than climate change, the Ukraine-Russia war, and Israel's Palestine-bashing put together. #2 The problem is that no one seems to know what exactly AI is, let alone whether it's a good thing, a bad thing or a value-neutral thing, and what to do about it. #1 Right. So, people are doing what they always do when they've got something they don't know what to do about — they're holding international conferences about AI to frame laws and rules about how to deal with it. #2 True.

Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones in special operations forces' missions and helped Ukraine in its war against Russia. It tracks soldiers' fitness, predicts when Air Force planes need maintenance and helps keep tabs on rivals in space. Now, the Pentagon is intent on fielding multiple thousands of relatively inexpensive, expendable AI-enabled autonomous vehicles by 2026 to keep pace with China. The ambitious initiative — dubbed Replicator — seeks to «galvanize progress in the too-slow shift of U.S. military innovation to leverage platforms that are small, smart, cheap, and many,» Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said in August.

Rising migration across Europe, including the biggest surge in asylum seekers since a 2015-2016 migrant crisis, is fueling support for far-right and anti-immigration parties, potentially reshaping European politics for years. Nationalist parties that champion a harder line against immigration are surging in polls and have entered governmentsin countries from Italy to Finland, as anxiety rises about sluggish economic growth and crises from Ukraine to the Middle East.

drone attack on Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion in 2022, targeting the Ukrainian capital, military officials said. «Kyiv was the main target,» Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk wrote on his Telegram channel. In total, Russia launched 75 Iranian-made Shahed drones against Ukraine, of which 74 were destroyed by air defenses, Ukraine's air force said. The attack was «the most massive air attack by drones on Kyiv,» said Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv city administration.

Lens will guarantee Arsenal a spot in the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League. But they may take this opportunity to avenge their earlier loss. Mikel Arteta's side are four points clear of PSV and Lens on top of Group B. They are back at Europe's top table for the first time in seven years this season. In their first meeting on October 3, Lens defeated Arsenal 2-1. Elye Wahi shocked the French side as he scored the winner.