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Technology, Tariffs and the Pursuit for Supply Chain Flexibility
Machine Design
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August 8, 2025
Key Takeaways: Global disruptions demand agility Digital natives drive Industry 4.0 adoption Speed and quality lead to a competitive advantage Flexible redundancy is the new imperative Unprecedented times in global supply chains continue. The...
Ukraine War: What Can a Trump-Putin Meeting Achieve?
Kyiv Post
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August 8, 2025
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are apparently close to engaging in direct negotiations aimed at ending Russia’s war against Ukraine. The meeting is expected to take place next week, although Putin has rejected the...
Ukrainian Partisans Infiltrate Key Moscow Air Defense Plant, Expose Putin’s War Supply Chain – ATESH
Kyiv Post
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August 8, 2025
Agents of the Ukrainian partisan movement “ATESH” said they’ve conducted reconnaissance of one of the key enterprises of Russia’s military-industrial complex — the Moscow Radio Engineering Plant, which is under the control of the Russian Ministry...
Ukraine - Don’t Hold Your Breath on Peace Talks
Kyiv Post
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August 8, 2025
Putin played hard to get, and in the end may get exactly what he wanted, which was a bilateral “Great Power” summit with Trump. Putin will surely hope that at that summit the two leaders can divide the world - Ukraine for Putin, Greenland, et al...
Trump news at a glance: President reportedly orders military to target drug cartels; plans to meet Putin on Ukraine
The Guardian
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August 9, 2025
Donald Trump has reportedly given a secret directive to the Pentagon to use the military to target Latin-American drug cartels that his administration has designated terrorist organisations. The order “provides an official basis for the...
Ukraine pulls civilians back from parts of endangered Kherson
Politico Europe
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August 8, 2025
The bridge attack prompted fears that Russians are planning to retake Kherson. Russia seized the city of 300,000 in the early days of its full-scale attack on Ukraine in 2022, but was driven out later that year. Holding the city, located on the...
Ukrainians No Longer Support War to Bitter End, Want Negotiation ‘As Soon as Possible’ Says Poll
Breitbart
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August 8, 2025
The views of Ukrainian citizens on what kind of end to the Russian invasion they want has totally inverted since the war began, polling finds, with a clear majority now supporting a negotiated end “as soon as possible”. 69 per cent of Ukrainians...
Ukraine’s tech pioneers lead robotic revolution on the frontlines, out-innovating Russia in the battle for survival
LBC
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5 August 2025, 08:07 | Updated: 8 August 2025, 08:36 A Ukrainian soldier prepares a drone for deployment, showcasing the frontline innovation powering Ukraine’s defense against Russia. Picture: Victory Drones When Russia launched its full-scale...
Trump reveals when - and where - he will meet Putin for Ukraine talks
Sky News
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August 8, 2025
Donald Trump has announced his "highly anticipated" meeting with Vladimir Putin will take place next Friday in the US state of Alaska. The two presidents are expected to discuss the war in Ukraine with the talks potentially leading to a...
The Latest: Trump says he’ll meet with Putin next Friday in Alaska to discuss ending war in Ukraine
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Georgia
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Here's the Latest: Putin’s trip to Alaska will be his first to the US in a decade The last time Russia’s leader was in the country was for a meeting with President Barack Obama at the U.N. General Assembly Meeting in New York in September 2015....
“Allowing Crypto As A Legal Tender Is A Red Line”: Ukraine Central Bank
Coingape
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August 8, 2025
Ukraine’s central bank has outlined the country’s approach to crypto legalization. Andriy Pyshnyy, the Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), asserted that while digital assets will be recognized, they will not be allowed to serve as...
Kyiv works to replicate unmanned air success with ground vehicles
Shephard Media
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The Ukrainian government has turned to indigenous technology companies to help it reduce combat losses and fill difficult or dangerous roles on the battlefield since Russia’s invasion. The country’s military, political and industrial leaders have...
‘We’ve won’: Russians crow about victory as Putin strings Trump along over Ukraine
The i paper
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August 8, 2025
‘Everything is on Putin’s terms’ - Russia has got Trump exactly where it wants him Vladimir Putin holds the cards at his upcoming meeting with Donald Trump, experts have said as Russian media celebrates the Kremlin’s diplomatic “victory” over...
‘Just a trickle’: Residents in Russian-occupied Ukraine face severe water shortage
Yahoo Sports - Canada
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August 8, 2025
Residents of the Russian-occupied Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine are facing a severe water crisis, with a shortage leaving them in dire conditions. Experts point to Russia's occupation, subsequent mismanagement, and wartime destruction as the...
Bulletin: Israel Demolishes Palestinian School under Construction; Egypt Launches Bachelor’s Programme in Banking Sciences
Al-Fanar Media
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August 7, 2025
More Dangerous than Bullets and Missiles Once, our greatest fears centred on nuclear threats, on the possibility of targeting nuclear facilities or the outbreak of war between two nuclear-armed neighbours. We imagined the moment someone might...
Ukrainian war correspondent Roshchyna buried in Kyiv
Deutsche Welle
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August 8, 2025
War was her beat: Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, or Vika for short, put herself in danger to tell the world about what was happening to people in the occupied areas of her country. The 27-year-old paid for her...
Funeral for Ukraine Reporter Who Suffered ‘Torments’ in Russian Captivity
Kyiv Post
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August 8, 2025
Dozens of mourners packed into a cathedral in central Kyiv on Friday to pay their respects to independent journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, who died in Russian captivity last year aged 27. Her body, which Russia returned in February, remained in a...
Modi, Putin Discuss Ukraine Crisis, Strategic Partnership Amid US-India Trade Strain
News24
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August 8, 2025
Amid rising tensions over the imposition of trade tariffs on India by the United States, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with President Vladimir Putin on Friday. President Putin briefed the Prime Minister on the latest developments concerning...
Ukraine’s drone war boosts its bargaining power with Russia
Asia Times
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August 8, 2025
Donald Trump appears to be making another attempt to organise a three-way summit with Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to end the Russian invasion. Putin’s reluctance to meet his Ukrainian counterpart so far has often...
FACT CHECK: Would cutting benefits for Ukrainians boost employment in Germany?
The Local - Germany
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August 8, 2025
Germany's conservative leaders claim that scrapping a welfare benefit for all Ukrainian refugees would encourage more people into work. We look at the evidence. Markus Söder, Bavaria's Prime Minister and chair of the conservative Christian Social...