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President Trump reiterated his call on Sunday for an immediate halt to the three-and-a-half-year full-scale war in Ukraine, saying the battle lines should be frozen where they currently stand, with Russia’s invading forces occupying most of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly rejected the idea of forfeiting the Donbas, or any other occupied ground, to Moscow …

Microsoft has fired two employees that were involved in a sit-in protest in vice chair and president Brad Smith’s office. Software engineers Riki Fameli and Anna Hattle were both dismissed today, after being part of a group of seven protesters that managed to get inside Smith’s office in Building 34 yesterday. Microsoft was forced to temporarily lock down its executive …

Russia has occupied less than 1% of Ukrainian territory over 1,010 days of full-scale war, battlefield monitoring group DeepState reported on Aug. 18. Russia made significant gains in multiple regions of Ukraine in the first months of the full-scale war. However, since November 2022, Russian forces have only captured 5,842 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory,  accounting for about 0.97% of …

Speaker Johnson visits Israeli settlement in occupied West Bank  Axios US House Speaker Mike Johnson visits Israeli West Bank settlement  Al Jazeera Speaker Mike Johnson visits occupied West Bank to support Israeli settlers  The Guardian US speaker says West Bank belongs to Jews ‘by right’ in settlement visit  The Times of Israel Israeli goal for Gaza is to ‘eliminate Hamas’ from power, says Israeli …