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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone on Tuesday for at least 90 minutes.Russia has agreed to a partial ceasefire on targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure as a result, for a period of 30 days. But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that future talks about Ukraine without Kyiv at the table will not bring any results. Image: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meeting in 2018. File pic: AP Here's […]

A humanoid machine called Apollo has just taken a tentative, slightly jerky, but significant step forward in the robot revolution.The 5'8" tall robot performed the first public demonstration in a real-world setting of a real-world task - in this case assembling an engine part - entirely autonomously. Clicking two parts together with a twist of its servo-controlled wrists, and handing it to a human colleague is a basic task. But […]

Thousands are demanding justice for 59 people killed in a nightclub fire in North Macedonia, as authorities prepare graves for its victims.More than 150 were also injured after pyrotechnics sparked a fire at Club Pulse in Kocani, with government officials and the nightclub's manager among 20 people arrested. But some protests turned violent in the eastern town and in the capital Skopje, where thousands have called for more action amid […]

Donald Trump will speak to Vladimir Putin by phone later today - with the White House saying "we've never been closer to a peace deal" in Ukraine.In a post on Truth Social, the US president said he would be speaking to his Russian counterpart on Tuesday morning - adding: "Many elements of a Final Agreement have been agreed to, but much remains. "Thousands of young soldiers, and others, are being […]

A Bulgarian football club have apologised for holding a minute's silence for a former player who is still alive.Arda Kardzhali, which is located in the southern Bulgarian town of Kardzhali, and play in the country's top division, held the minute's silence in honour of Petko Ganchev before Sunday's game against Levski Sofia. Both teams lined up near the centre circle before kicking off in the 1-1 draw, bowing their heads […]

A British couple detained by the Taliban have been moved to a maximum security prison in Kabul in what has been described by their children as an alarming update.Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were detained by the Taliban's interior ministry on 1 February. At the end of last month, the Taliban claimed the arrests happened because of a "misunderstanding" that the Reynolds had fake Afghan passports.The day […]

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he is planning to fire the head of Shin Bet - the country's domestic intelligence agency.Mr Netanyahu informed Ronen Bar during an urgent meeting on Sunday and announced the intention, to immediate criticism from opposition politicians. "At all times, but especially during an existential war such as the one we face, there must be full trust between the prime minister and head of […]

No checkpoint is the same, some want paperwork, others wave you through after a brief look inside - but from Damascus to Latakia, there are a lot of checkpoints, and in one way or another, you are checked every time.It wasn't like this just a month or two ago, but it is now after the most violent few days the country has seen since Bashar al Assad was forced from […]

A father has said his only son, who died in a nightclub fire in North Macedonia, had "only [just] started to live" and that more than 150 families have been left "devastated" by the tragedy.Dragi Stojanov's son Tomce, 21, was among the crowd inside Pulse nightclub in the eastern town of Kocani in the early hours of Sunday when the fire broke out.Local media reports and video from inside the […]