What we know about US-Ukraine minerals deal
Ian Aikman & James Gregory
Ukraine says it has agreed to the terms of a "preliminary" deal that would give the US access to its deposits of rare earth minerals.
Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky said he hoped the initial agreement with the US "will lead to further deals", but confirmed no American security guarantees have been agreed yet.
US President Donald Trump said a deal would help American taxpayers "get their money back" for aid sent to Ukraine throughout the war and give Kyiv "the right to fight on" against Russia.
Colombia risks return to violent past, says architect of landmark peace deal
Exclusive: The bloody foundering of President Gustavo Petro’s ‘Total Peace’ strategy is a ‘national failure’, says Juan Manuel Santos, who ended war with Farc guerrillas in 2016
Wed 26 Feb 2025 11.30 GMT
Colombia risks sliding back into its violent past as armed groups exploit the stumbling peace strategy of President Gustavo Petro, the architect of its landmark 2016 peace deal has told the Guardian.
In a rare interview, former president Juan Manuel Santos warned that gains from the peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) are quickly being undone as armed factions exploit negotiation efforts to recruit new combatants and seize control of new land.
Bosnian Serb leader Dodik sentenced for defying peace envoy
Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik was found guilty and sentenced to one year in prison for defying the decisions of an international envoy.
A court in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on Wednesday sentenced Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik to a year in prison and banned him from politics for six years.
The verdict came after a year-long trial of Dodik on charges that he failed to obey the top international envoy overseeing the peace process in the Balkan country.
Dodik, who has said he would disobey any ruling, and his lawyers were not in court for the verdict. The politician is expected to appeal the conviction.
Iran accelerates production of near weapons-grade uranium amid rising tensions with US
Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium has sharply expanded since November, a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday, showing the country now has 274.8 kilograms of uranium enriched up to 60 percent. The material is a short step away from weapons-grade levels of 90 percent.
Iran has accelerated its production of near weapons-grade uranium as tensions between Tehran and Washington rise after the election of US President Donald Trump, a report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog seen by The Associated Press on Wednesday showed.
The report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that as of Feb. 8, Iran has 274.8 kilograms (605.8 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60%. That’s an increase of 92.5 kilograms (203.9 pounds) since the IAEA’s last report in November.
That material is a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
Mystery illness kills more than 50 within hours in Congo
Jean-Yves Kamale and Olivia Le Poidevin
An unknown illness has killed more than 50 people in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to doctors on the ground and the World Health Organisation.
The interval between the onset of symptoms and death has been 48 hours in the majority of cases, and “that’s what’s really worrying,” Serge Ngalebato, medical director of Bikoro Hospital, a regional monitoring centre, told the Associated Press.
The outbreak began on January 21, and 419 cases have been recorded, including 53 deaths.
Netanyahu’s political calculus that sent tanks into Jenin
In the early hours of Monday, 56-year-old Ahmed al-Amouri watched wryly as three Israeli tanks rolled into his hometown, Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.
The last time he had seen tanks there was more than two decades ago when Israel sought to crush the second Intifada in 2002.
This time, the scene seemed to provoke more humour than alarm.
He joined bystanders who took selfies in front of the armoured vehicles or pelted them with rocks as they entered Jenin.
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