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    Idriss Sangare/Reuters
    Jihadi fighters affiliated with al Qaeda close in on Mali’s capital, as instability grows across Sahel region
  • Ukrainian artillerymen get into a car after a combat mission near the frontline town of Pokrovsk in Donetsk region earlier this month.
    Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters
    Fighting intensifies around key town in Ukraine amid fresh attacks on Russian energy
  • FILE - A sub-surface atomic test is shown March 23, 1955 at the Nevada Test Site near Yucca Flats, Nev. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP, File)
    US Atomic Energy Commission/AP
    Why is there so much talk about nuclear weapons this week?
  • A Tomahawk Land Attack Missile is launched from the guided missile cruiser USS Cape St. George, in 2003.
    Intelligence Specialist 1st Class Kenneth Moll/US Navy/Reuters/File
    Pentagon cleared giving Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles, leaving final decision to Trump
  • President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, on October 30, 2025.
    Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
    Trump said the US would begin testing nukes. It caught even some advisers by surprise.
  • FILE - A mushroom cloud rises from a test blast at the Nevada Test Site on June 24, 1957. (U.S. Energy Department via AP, File)
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    Trump says he wants to resume nuclear testing. Here’s why experts are confused
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  • Lithuania closes border with Belarus after multiple balloons violate airspace
  • UN report accuses Russia of war crimes in drone warfare and forcible transfer of civilians
  • Putin claims successful test of long-range nuclear-powered cruise missile amid diplomatic breakdown
  • Georgia arrests three Chinese nationals for trying to buy uranium illegally, local media reports
  • Jet-powered bombs and planes-turned-missiles: Ukrainian and Russian militaries improvise and adapt in a battle of wits
  • ‘Ukraine’s future is our future’: Europe’s ‘Coalition of the Willing’ vows to increase economic pressure on Russia
  • A bad week for Hungary’s strongman leader as Trump-Putin summit scrapped and US sanctions Russia
  • Top Russian envoy visits US for ‘official’ talks, days after Trump imposes sanctions on Moscow

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    Crushed by punishing US sanctions, Russia’s Lukoil accepts offer to sell its international business
  • How hard will Trump’s ‘tremendous’ Russian oil sanctions hit Moscow? China and India may decide
  • Trump’s sanctions target Russian ‘war ATM,’ but the real test is enforcement
  • Trump’s challenge: Hurting Putin without harming Americans at the gas pump
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  • FILE - A sub-surface atomic test is shown March 23, 1955 at the Nevada Test Site near Yucca Flats, Nev. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP, File)
    US Atomic Energy Commission/AP
    Why is there so much talk about nuclear weapons this week?
  • Pentagon cleared giving Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles, leaving final decision to Trump
  • Trump said the US would begin testing nukes. It caught even some advisers by surprise.
  • Trump says he wants to resume nuclear testing. Here’s why experts are confused
  • Trump instructs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons ‘on an equal basis’ with Russia and China

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