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Jan 2025
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Trump urges Putin to end Ukraine war; Is...

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Donald Trump threatened Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, with “high levels of taxes, tariffs and sanctions” if he does not “make a deal” to end the war in Ukraine. 
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