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Trump fumes over ‘embarrassment’ for US
Former president condemns “one-sided” prisoner swap with Moscow that left a US Marine behind Trading a high-profile prisoner for a basketball player while leaving a Marine in a Russian prison is an embarrassing and stupid deal, former US president Donald Trump said on Thursday, as the ruling Democrats praised the swap as a triumph for black and LGBT Americans. “What kind of a deal is…
US Democrat senator slams Biden
West Virginia’s Joe Manchin has called out the US president for pledging to shut down America’s coal-fueled power plants US Senator Joe Manchin, one of the most powerful lawmakers in Joe Biden’s own Democrat party, has blasted the president for vowing to shut down America’s coal-fueled power plants, unleashing an unusually candid rebuke of the leader just three days before the congressional midterm elections. “President…
Ukraine troops ‘outnumbered Russia’s 8 times’ in counterattack
Ukrainian forces outnumbered Russian troops by eight times during the rapid Ukrainian counteroffensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region, a Russian-installed official said. Russian shelling has again cut off power and water supplies to Kharkiv, the mayor of Ukraine’s second-largest city has said. Earlier, Kharkiv’s regional governor had said 80 percent of power in the city had been restored following Russian shelling on Sunday, which followed…