The founder of the Telegram messaging app, Pavel Durov, said on Sunday he had refused a request by a Western government, which he did not name, to “silence” conservative voices in Romania ahead of a presidential election run-off there.

Romanians head to the polls on Sunday in a run-off that pits a hard-right eurosceptic against a centrist

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Ukraine's military intelligence firm said on Sunday that Russia prepared to conduct a training and combat launch of a global ballistic rocket (ICBM) to daunt Ukraine and the West.In a declaration published to Telegram, Ukraine's GUR intelligence agency stated that Russia is set to hold an over night launch from the central Sverdlovsk r

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sunday that he, along with the leaders of Britain, France and Poland, intended to speak with Donald Trump ahead of the U.S. president's prepared call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday.Merz stated he had gone over the issue with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio while the two guys were participating in the

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U.S. President Donald Trump said he will speak with Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday to discuss stopping the war in Ukraine, days after the first direct talks between the two warring countries since early 2022.

Trump, who was touring the Middle East last week, had offered to travel to Istanbul for the talks on

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The largest known Russian drone attack since the full-scale war began in 2022 killed a woman in the Kyiv region and injured at least three people, Ukrainian authorities said early on Sunday, as Moscow stepped up strikes following peace talks on Friday.

As of 8 a.m. local time, Russia had launched 273 drones, targeting the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and

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The Kremlin said on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin could meet Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in the future, but only if certain agreements were reached.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not specify what agreements would be required from Russia's point of view. Putin and Zelensky have not met since December 2019.

Zelensky had

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