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Mar 2025
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US hold peace talks with Ukraine in Saud...

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Ukraine has launched its biggest drone attack yet on Moscow as its diplomats are meeting the US to discuss how to end the war.

Also on the programme: gunmen in Pakistan seize a passenger train with hundreds on board; and the police in the Philippines arrest the former president Rodrigo Duterte over his seven year war on drugs.

(Photo: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio greets well-wishers upon arrival at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Credit: SAUL LOEB/Pool via REUTERS)

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