World affairs editor Sam Kiley has been covering Ukraine since the Russian invasion of 2014. Here he looks at the current state of the conflict, the likelihood of a lasting ceasefire and what Russian leader Vladimir Putin is planning next

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After an excellent performance in the Europa League, can Ruben Amorim’s side gain more momentum in a tough away fixture?

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It felt much longer, but the U_S_ stock market needed just a few weeks to roar all the way back to where it was on President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day.”

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Lady Gaga drew 2.1 million attendees to Copacabana beach, breaking Madonna’s record of 1.6 million

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Exclusive: Reform’s new Lincolnshire mayor Andrea Jenkyns has revealed that Farage plans to use the party’s control of councils across England to launch a series of legal challenges to block Labour government policy on net zero and housing asylum seekers

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Mark Williams becomes the oldest finalist in history as he takes on Zhao Xintong, who hoping to become the first Chinese world champion after returning from a ban

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The Essex batter appeared to hurt his side while compiling a County Championship century

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Sir Winston Churchill’s victory speech, a military procession, a flypast and street parties are part of the build-up to 8 May

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Lebanese have voted in the country’s first local elections in almost a decade, months after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah

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Actor Dee Wallace, who played the mother of a young boy who befriends a space alien, recalled reaching a ‘compromise’ with the director on set over a scene she worried would disrupt the movie’s ‘purity’

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This video shows the moment a missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels towards Israel on Sunday landed near Ben Gurion Airport.

Yemen's Houthis warned airlines that the Israeli airport was ‘no longer safe for air travel’

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The Welshman is targeting his fourth World Championship.

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More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease appear to have been eliminated in the tornado of layoffs and proposed budget cuts in the Trump administration’s first 100 days

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Guacamole has been spared from tariffs for now

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Trump said he would be his own first choice to become the next pope

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The pop star said in 2020 that he’d swapped ‘cocaine and strippers’ for ‘colouring in’

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For more than two decades, Sean “Diddy” Combs was one of one of hip-hop’s most opportunistic entrepreneurs

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The 27-year-old had threatened the New Zealand national record with a blazing 10k a day before the incident

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A win is vital for the hosts with the top-five race heating up as they welcome the champions to Stamford Bridge

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The Tory leader was speaking to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg after devastating local elections results, which left one pollster warning she only has 12 months to save her party

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If you’ve gotten a new ID in the last few years, it could already be REAL ID-compliant

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Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep and Tom Hardy feature on this list by Louis Chilton, of brilliant acting talents who at one point in their careers bit off more than they could chew...

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Avoiding staid respectability, this event – part of a short UK tour to celebrate the 40th anniversary of album ‘Rum Sodomy & the Lash’ – sees the audience singing along in bittersweet unison with the remaining band, younger musicians and guest vocalists

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Restauranteur Keith McNally made headlines in 2022 when he publicly lambasted the ‘Gavin & Stacey’ star over his alleged bad behaviour in his restaurants

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Temperatures have soared this week, setting the tone for the summer ahead – here are the beaches our travel desk loves best around the UK, each with a place to stay

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The 35-year-old expects to be away from the gym for six to eight weeks.

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Aerial footage shows the mind-boggling scale of Lady Gaga’s biggest-ever concert, as more than two million fans descended on Rio’s Copacabana beach last night (3 May).

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The Commons leader has apologised after suggesting on BBC Any Questions that raising concerns over Asian grooming gangs was ‘dog whistle’ politics

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The leader of Turkey’s main opposition party has been attacked while leaving a memorial ceremony in Istanbul

Xi was already among the leaders set to attend the Victory Day Parade in Moscow on 9 May

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The new release, which follows a misfit squad of Marvel’s antiheroes, has drawn positive reviews

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University of California, Berkeley issued an advisory last week saying upcoming international travel was risky

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German pop star Dieter Bohlen is asking his fans to return a sign spelling out the name of his hometown of Toetensen

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Man was trapped inside enclosure for 30 minutes before being rescued

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Trump was not pleased with the Crucible crowd during his World Championship semi-final defeat

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This year is already one of the busiest for tourists in Rome, but as the city mourns Pope Francis’ passing and prepares for a historic conclave, Robyn Wilson finds there are sill moments calm at historic sites – and gastronomic delights aplenty

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More than 100 women have accused the Harrods businessman, who died in 2023, of sexual assault

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A government minister says Portugal’s caretaker government plans to expel some 18,000 foreigners

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