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NSA opens up on role in hunting down Osama bin Laden: ‘This one was different’

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Views: 6 Agency famous for secrecy offers new details on 10-year quest in podcast. The National Security Agency revealed new details on Thursday of its pivotal role in tracking the most wanted terrorist in American history: Osama bin Laden, including how it helped finger the courier who led to the al Qaeda leader’s hideout and […]

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Putin says Russia ready for talks with Ukraine

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Views: 11 Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was ready for talks with Ukraine, after having previously rebuffed the idea of negotiations while Kyiv’s offensive into the Kursk region was ongoing. Putin said a preliminary agreement reached between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in the first weeks of the war at talks in Istanbul, which was

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JUST IN: Ugandan long-distance and marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei has tragically died.

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Views: 5Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei has tragically died from injuries sustained after being set alight by her ex-partner. The 33-year-old athlete had been in intensive care since Sunday (September 1), having suffered burns to over 80 per cent of her body. The horrifying attack took place in Kenya shortly after her return from the 2024

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Russia Vows ‘Painful’ Response After NATO Backs Kursk Incursion

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Views: 4Moscow has decried the West’s support for Ukraine’s ongoing incursion into its territory, following the tacit endorsement of the operation by NATO’s top brass, and warned that the country will respond in a fierce manner. The Kursk raid, which began on August 6 and continues to make headway into Russia’s border regions, has continued to drawn significant condemnation from

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By Fire and Sword: The Perils of Ukraine’s Kursk Gambit

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Views: 10Just over a year ago, I argued in The National Interest that the Russian victory against Ukraine’s 2023 summer counteroffensive would grant the Kremlin tremendous political capital. Moscow would be able to continue mobilizing Russian society and the economy to prosecute the war to the utmost. A Russian military that returned to maneuver warfare

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Humanitarian law ‘strictly observed’ in Kursk Oblast, Ukraine says

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Views: 6 The Ukrainian military commandant’s office is ensuring ‘strict observance’ of international humanitarian law in the areas of Russia’s Kursk Oblast under Kyiv’s control, the Ukrainian Ground Forces said in a statement on Sept. 4. “A significant number of civilians, whom the Russian authorities have abandoned without any means of subsistence — food, light, water,

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ERR in Ukraine: Kursk incursion not yet halted Russian troops in Donbas

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Views: 12 The Ukrainian military incursion in the Kursk oblast, now a month old, has not forced Russian occupiers to halt their offensive in Donbas, to the east, though its effects are already being felt on certain sections of the front, ERR’s Anton Aleksejev reported. Aleksejev and camera operator Kristjan Svirgsden have been delivering regular

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Why Ukraine’s Kursk offensive has failed to distract Russia from Donbas push

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Views: 5 Russian troops are inching ever close to Ukraine’s eastern city of Pokrovsk, a vital logistical hub for Kyiv’s outgunned and outnumbered forces, leading some analysts to question the wisdom of a Ukrainian lightning offensive on Russian soil that was intended to distract Moscow from its Donbas push. The Ukrainian army remains in control

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Ukraine’s gamble against Russia risks becoming blunder

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Views: 13 The Ukrainian advance into Russia’s Kursk region has so far failed to achieve one of its main objectives: diverting Russian troops from the front lines of eastern Ukraine in a bid to reshape the battlefield. Ukraine’s surprise August incursion has achieved other goals, including dealing a blow to Russia’s image of strength, destroying

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