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Published On 20 Oct 2025
Published On 20 Oct 2025
Russian and Ukrainian president Donald Trump has proposed that Moscow retain significant portions of Ukrainian territory in exchange for a freeze in the conflict along current battle lines.
Late on Sunday, Trump told reporters that the two parties should simply stop fighting and resolve “details” in upcoming discussions. The Donbass region, a hub for industrial activity, is where the current front line is.
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The US president said, “They should stop right now at the battle lines, go home, stop killing people, and be done,” adding that negotiations over a final resolution would be difficult to reach.
When asked what would happen to Donbas, which has seen the most fighting, Trump responded, “Let it be cut the way it is. It is currently being cut up; in my opinion, Russia has already seized 78 percent of the land. You leave it as is at this moment. Later on, they can bargain something.”
Ukraine has previously urged that all of its land be reclaimed. Trump himself claimed last month that Ukraine has the ability to win militarily and retake all of Russia’s territories, including the Crimean Peninsula and other areas of eastern Ukraine.
In Hungary in the upcoming weeks, the US president will meet with Vladimir Putin, the country’s president, who had promised to put an end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Trump said last week at the White House that “if flexibility is shown, there is a chance to resolve the conflict quickly” when he hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Zelenskyy urged Trump to put more pressure on Putin on Sunday, referring to Hamas as the Palestinian leader.
Zelenskyy told NBC News that Putin is “somewhat more powerful than Hamas.”
The Ukrainian president made the suggestion last week that the Trump-brokered ceasefire in Gaza provided “momentum” to put an end to the conflict in Ukraine.
Zelenskyy also reiterated his request for long-range Tomahawk missiles from the US to Ukraine. Zelenskyy conceded that Trump did not agree with the request, but he also did not reject it.
Trump made the recent suggestion that the US should maintain its Tomahawk stockpiles in order to protect its own national security interests.
The US provided unwavering support to Ukraine under former president Joe Biden, providing tens of billions of dollars in military, budget, and humanitarian aid.
Trump has, however, encouraged European nations to arm Kyiv by purchasing US weapons while cutting back on Ukrainian assistance.
In February 2022, Russia declared that NATO was expanding into former Soviet republics and that it had invaded Ukraine completely.
The tournament co-hosts were pitted against each other for the final four spots in the final four on Sunday as England rallied for a four-run victory over India to advance to the semifinals of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup.
India struggled to find a winning target in their 50 overs, falling just short as they were beaten to a winning target by 289 runs.
Smriti Mandhana top-scored with 88 runs while Harmanpreet Kaur, the team’s skipper, hit a 70 run-a-ball. They were almost on the verge of winning the majority of their innings.
Nat Sciver-Brunt, England’s captain, picked up 2-47 and left-arm spinner Linsey Smith put the brakes on the home side with a score of 1-40 in 10 overs, including Mandhana’s crucial wicket.
India stunned the home crowd at Holkar Stadium with its third straight defeat, which came after defeats to Australia and South Africa.
After England decided to bat first, Heather Knight scored 109 off 91 balls to post the score of 288-8.
With a fourth win in five games, England defeated defending champions Australia and South Africa in the semifinals. On Wednesday, the four-time champions travel to Australia at the same venue.
In their final two group games against Bangladesh on Sunday and New Zealand on Thursday, India are still fourth with four points from five games.
According to Kaur, “Smriti’s dismissal was the turning point.” “We had enough batting to bring the game to a close, but I don’t know how things turned out.” England deserves praise for consistently taking wickets and bowling well.
On Monday, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, co-hosts, will square off in Navi Mumbai.
The chase didn’t begin at their best. Harleen Deol’s leg was pinned before wicket by Charlie Dean, who was caught behind for six.
With India seemingly cruising on a batting-friendly surface, Mandhana and Kaur then combined for a 42-2 lead before adding 125 runs off 122 balls for the third wicket.
Kaur and Mandhana both preferred playing anchor roles while Kaur made up for it with 54 balls. She won 60 balls to reach her second successive fifty.
Although it was impossible for Sciver-Brunt to defeat Kaur, India remained the clear winner.
With Mandhana, Deepti Sharma added 67 off of a 66 and hit 50 off a 57.
India lacked 62 for the final 60 deliveries, but Mandhana’s momentum gained when he went for a big shot in the 42nd over over Smith and was caught on the boundary.
In the 47th over, India dropped from 234-3 to 262-6, with Sharma being outclassed by Sophie Ecclestone (58).
As Amanjot Kaur (18 points out) and Sneh Rana (10 points out) couldn’t put an end to the chase, England put more pressure on themselves.
To lead England’s innings, Knight scored her third ODI hundred.
With openers Amy Jones and Tammy Beaumont (22), England made a strong start with 73 runs. Jones ran out of 68 balls to score 56.
Before Knight took over the innings, which included a 113-run third-wicket stand with Sciver-Brunt (38 off 49), off-spinner Sharma recorded both openers.
“I pushed the accelerator down and inserted myself.” On that pitch, it seemed like we needed 300, but Knight resentment over not getting there in the end. I’m pleased to give a strong performance for my 300th international game, and I was desperate to do so.
On 86 balls, including 14 fours and sixes, Knight scored her century. England slipped to the end, conceding five wickets for 31 runs in just 5.11 overs, as she was thrown out in the 45th over.
In 10 overs, Sharma returned 4-51 and the next-best century, but it was insufficient.
Max Verstappen from Red Bull won the US Grand Prix from pole position on Sunday, leading everyone in every lap, extending Oscar Piastri’s Formula One championship lead to seventh place in Texas.
Five laps from the chequered flag, McLaren’s Piastri passed Lando Norris, his teammate and closest competitor, just seconds after passing Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, the winner of the previous year, at the finish line.
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With five rounds and two sprints left, Piastri now leads Britain’s Norris by 14 points, while Verstappen cut his Australian lead to 40 after being 104 behind at the end of August.
Verstappen also won the weekend sprint at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas from pole position, helping the McLarens collide and retire on a weekend with maximum points for the four-time world champion.
McLaren has already clinched the title of constructor.
Verstappen remarked of the title battle, “For sure, there is a chance.” We just need to make an effort to deliver these weekends until the very end.
We’ll make every effort possible. He continued, “It’s exciting,” after recording his 68th victory in his career in his third of his career.
Piastri asserted that he still had full confidence in his ability to win the title for Australia the first time since 1980’s Alan Jones.
The 24-year-old added, “I’d still rather be where I’m than the other two.”
Leclerc won the race for Norris at the start, but it took 21 laps to get back in as the , Monegasque, held a defensive masterclass on the faster but less durable soft tyres.
Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton then squared off in a battle that moved up to third and fourth, with Piastri moving up to third and Lewis Hamilton returning in ninth place.
Verstappen was already ten seconds away from his closest rival.
After the rest of the frontrunners had made their pit stops, Leclerc was once more in second place behind Verstappen and Verstappen, with Norris third having to overtake with a track limitations warning hanging over him.
Done, Norris fought back and finished in a time of 7.9 seconds behind Verstappen and 7.4 ahead of Ferrari.
It was difficult, they said. We made every effort possible in a fight that generated some excitement for the fans as Verstappen completed lap after lap that was largely absent from the global television feed.
I anticipated a second attempt to pass, but that wasn’t the case. A very strong race was led by Charles. Good battles and good fun ensued. Therefore, we must take the break. There isn’t much else we can do right now.
Andrea Stella, the McLaren team’s manager, claimed Norris could have won if Ferrari hadn’t obstructed his efforts.
Piastri was just 1.1 seconds away, and Mercedes took the chequered flag in sixth place after George Russell, who won the previous race in Singapore, took the title.
Oliver Bearman and Nico Hulkenberg of Red Bull placed third, ahead of Oliver Bearman of Haas and Yuki Tsunoda of Red Bull. Aston Martin’s driver took the win in the end, taking Fernando Alonso.
When Mercedes’ rookie Italian Kimi Antonelli and Williams’ Carlos Sainz collided on lap 7, the Spaniard retired after attempting to overtake for seventh place inside.
Sainz a , five-place , grid penalty at the Mexican Grand Prix next weekend, plus two penalty points, were awarded by stewards for the collision.
Alex Albon, Sainz’s teammate, and Gabriel Bortoleto, a rookie from Brazil, collided in the first corner.
Although the race was held at a lower temperature than anticipated, the weekend was declared a heat hazard (about 28.6 degrees Celsius (83. 5 Fahrenheit).
According to the nation’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Paz had won 54.5 percent of the vote in the run-off race on Sunday, far ahead of the country’s right-wing interim president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, who received 45.4% of the vote.
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Paz, 58, entered politics after his father, former president of the left, Jaime Zamora.
After earning his economics degree in the United States, Paz moved back to Bolivia and became the mayor and city councillor of Tarija, before becoming the region’s senator in 2020.
He has promised to use a “capitalism for all” strategy, as well as decentralizing the national government and promoting tax cuts and tariff reductions.
Edmand Lara, Paz’s vice-presidential running mate, pleaded for “unity and reconciliation” after the results were released.
“We must ensure the availability of diesel and gasoline. People are experiencing pain. According to Lara, we need to stabilise the prices of the basic food basket and end corruption.
After former left-wing president Evo Morales was barred from running in August’s preliminary election and retiring president Luis Arce, who had fought with Morales, decided to withdraw from the race, the incumbent MAS party suffered a significant defeat on Sunday.
Due to term limits and party affiliation-related technicalities, courts had previously rejected Morales’ candidacy.
Few expected MAS to win back control of their left-wing coalition, which coincided with the country’s severe economic crisis.
Morales, who is still a popular figure among indigenous Bolivians, will continue to face stiff opposition from the new president even if the National Congress dissolves.
Morales told reporters that the two candidates only “represented a small number of people in Bolivia” on Sunday.
He claimed that they don’t represent the Indigenous movement or the popular movement at all.
After serving just one term as president beginning in 2020, Arce is scheduled to step down on November 8. He did not seek re-election, but Bolivia’s constitution allows for two terms.
The Andean nation has been dealing with a severe economic crisis, which has resulted in nearly 25% annual inflation and severe US dollar and fuel shortages.
In the run-up to the August 17 general election, Bolivians took to the streets to protest high prices and hours-long waits for essential items like food.
Under Morales, who nationalized the gas industry and invested the money in social initiatives that halved extreme poverty during his time in power between 2006 and 2019, Bolivia had experienced more than a decade of robust growth and Indigenous empowerment.
However, after Morales, who was outspoken about climate change and environmental issues, decided not to grow the nation’s gas industry, energy revenues dropped from a peak of $ 6.1 billion in 2013 to $1.6 billion in 2024, leaving the government without the foreign exchange needed to import wheat, wheat, and other foods.