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| Hello. After the momentum US President Donald Trump gained from his Gaza peace plan, he appears to have turned his attention once more to ending the war in Ukraine. But as North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher notes, he may struggle to win over his Russian counterpart. We also have the story of how a suitcase under a bed led to the discovery of a family fortune looted under Nazi rule. And watch as competitors in Oregon find a novel use for their pumpkins. | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | Why Trump made breakthrough in Gaza but can't with Putin over Ukraine |
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| | A man was reported killed and children wounded in an attack on a kindergarten in Kharkiv. Credit: DSNS Ukraine | At least seven people, including two children, have been killed in a wave of overnight Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. It comes a day after plans were shelved for a summit between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Following the momentum of his peace plan for Gaza, Trump appeared re-energised on ending the war in Ukraine, and it is this desire for a deal that Putin may be capitalising on "as a means of influencing" the US president, Anthony Zurcher writes. But, he points out, "the circumstances that aligned to make a Gaza breakthrough possible... may be difficult to replicate in a Ukraine war that has been raging for nearing four years". |
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| BEYOND THE HEADLINES | How an old suitcase revealed a hidden family fortune, lost under Nazi rule |
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| | | Anthony said his father always avoided talking about his childhood. | Soon after Peter Easton - a man who prided himself on his "Englishness" died - his son Anthony found a suitcase in his flat. Inside was German money, photos, notes and a birth certificate. It led Anthony on a journey to discover his family's hidden past: lives devastated by the Holocaust, a vanished fortune and a legacy of artwork and property stolen under Nazi rule. |
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