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    Live Updates Trump administration latest: Senate votes again on government funding bill as shutdown hits 20-day mark
  • US President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy over lunch in the Cabinet Room at the White House on October 17, 2025.
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    How Trump-Zelensky meeting turned acrimonious over demands for territorial concessions
  • A Tactical "Tomahawk" Block IV cruise missile, conducts a controlled flight test over the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) western test range complex in southern California. The Tactical Tomahawk, scheduled to join the fleet in 2004, is the next generation of Tomahawk cruise missile and it adds the capability to reprogram the missile while in-flight to strike any of 15 preprogrammed alternate targets or redirect the missile to any Global Positioning System (GPS) target coordinates. Warplanes from a US-British coalition bombed communications facilities in the south of the country after an Iraqi military jet violated the no-fly zone, the US military said 22 November. AFP PHOTO/US NAVY HO (Photo by US NAVY / AFP) (Photo by -/US NAVY/AFP via Getty Images)
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    US-made Tomahawk is a tried and tested missile – but it’s out of Ukraine’s reach for now
  • FILE PHOTO: Artillerymen of the 152nd Separate Jaeger Brigade fire an M114 self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the frontline town of Pokrovsk in Donetsk region, Ukraine October 15, 2025. REUTERS/Anatolii Stepanov/File Photo
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    Russian forces, aided by heavy aerial bombardments, edge forward in Ukraine
  • Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant seen from Nikopol, Ukraine on July 21, 2023.
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    Work underway to restore power at Ukrainian nuclear plant as UN announces rare local ‘ceasefire zones’
  • President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump met at the White House on October 17.
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    Trump denies Ukraine Tomahawk missiles, urges both sides to ‘stop the war immediately’
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  • A China Eastern Airlines passenger plane departs from Three Gorges International Airport in Yichang City, Hubei Province, China, on October 8, 2025.
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  • US President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy over lunch in the Cabinet Room at the White House on October 17, 2025.
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    How Trump-Zelensky meeting turned acrimonious over demands for territorial concessions
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