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Donald Trump claims to have brokered a deal to import Russian diesel and an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. As attacks on Kyiv continue, our deputy editor says Trump is risking Ukraine’s future for a mid-term bounce. India’s government is failing to quell Gen Z prote ...  Show more

A strategy approved today peels back some of the country’s constitutional pacifism; in large part that is because of its tense relationship< ...

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