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20.02.2025 17:00 U.S. President Donald Trump's comments this week claiming Ukraine was responsible for starting the three-year conflict with Russia and calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "a dictator without elections" drew criticism from congressional Democrats and pushback from some members of the Republican Party.

20.02.2025 17:00 Three years of war in Ukraine have reversed decades of progress for women and girls, leaving millions in urgent need of support, according to UN Women.

20.02.2025 17:00 Russia's tanks rolled across the Ukrainian border three years ago this month, triggering the worst conflict on European soil since World War II. Ukraine has resisted the full-scale invasion largely thanks to the support of the United States and Europe.

20.02.2025 17:00 Diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine have been turbocharged in recent days, prompting European countries to speak with new urgency about sending a peacekeeping force.

20.02.2025 17:00 President Donald Trump on Wednesday repeated a claim that the United States has spent $350 billion on Ukraine's war — a figure that far eclipses the amount recorded by the Department of Defense and the interagency oversight group that tracks U.S. appropriations to Ukraine.

20.02.2025 17:00 U.S. President Donald Trump doubled down on his criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, saying again that he has done a terrible job and asserting that he could have attended talks with Russia this week in Saudi Arabia if he had wanted to.

20.02.2025 17:00 A whirlwind week that has seen two emergency summits in Europe and worried comments from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy underlines the gnawing fear in capitals from Kyiv to London.

20.02.2025 17:00 After facilitating the first high-level talks between U.S. and Russian officials since the Ukraine war began, Saudi Arabia is now reportedly positioning itself as a mediator in another high-stakes negotiation - this time between the United States and Iran.

20.02.2025 17:00 The dream of a civil, democratic and prosperous Libya remains unfulfilled 14 years after the revolution that led to the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime, the head of UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs told the Security Council on Wednesday.

20.02.2025 17:00 A joint team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen and Vandenberg Space Force Base Guardians launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a single telemetered joint test assembly re-entry vehicle Feb. 19 fom Vandenberg SFB.

20.02.2025 17:00 Amid rising regional tensions and the continuous advance of the 23 March Movement, or M23, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, senior UN officials told the Security Council today that the warring parties must return to the negotiating table and seriously work towards peace, while also welcoming regional efforts to resolve the conflict.

20.02.2025 17:00 China on Wednesday voiced opposition to Vietnam's recent developments in the Spratly archipelago in a rare public protest.

20.02.2025 17:00 The Danish Government proposes to accelerate the build-up of Danish Defence fighting capability. An additional 50 billion DKK allocated over the coming two years and a reorganization of the Danish Ministry of Defence will help speed up investments. With the increased funding Denmark will allocate more than 3 pct. of GDP on defence

20.02.2025 17:00 As Lithuania firmly stands by Ukraine by providing military aid, a new batch including trucks, thermal imaging sights and more aid for the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been delivered.

20.02.2025 17:00 Hamas is scheduled to turn over the bodies of four slain hostages Thursday, including those of the youngest captives - infant Kfir Bibas, who was 9 months old when he was kidnapped, and his 4-year-old brother, Ariel Bibas.