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After a week where Russia and the US began talks on the war in Ukarine, Donald Trump and his administration also made a lot of comments about the Ukrainian President and Europe that has raised questions.

They mainly concerned how the war in Ukraine may be resolved - so how does Europe look to the US after this week?

The BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins takes a look.

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As the Trump administration begins peace talks with Russian officials to end the war in Ukraine, President Trump himself seems to be blaming Ukraine for it beginning at all. We ask, whose side is he on?

Justin, Marianna and Anthony also look at what Zelensky means when he says Trump is “living in a disinformation space”.

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A man charged with stabbing renowned British-Indian author Sir Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage has been found guilty of attempted murder and assault.

Hadi Matar, a 27-year-old man from New Jersey, US now faces a potential sentence of more than 30 years in prison.

Rushdie survived the attack, but the injuries resulted in damage to his liver, lost vision in one eye and a paralysed hand caused by nerve damage to his arm.

He was stabbed a total of 15 times, with wounds to his eye, cheek, neck, chest, torso and thigh.

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The past week has seen international diplomacy turned upside down as the US began talks with Russia to end the war in Ukraine.

The decision to exclude Ukraine - and European countries including France, the United Kingdom and Germany - from these talks led to an emergency summit in which European countries sought to establish some influence over the process.

But with the US and Ukrainian presidents embroiled in a dispute that led to President Trump calling President Zelensky a “dictator”, is their relationship beyond repair? And will Ukraine have any say over the terms of a peace deal?

Newscast, Americast and Ukrainecast gathered in the studio for a special collaboration to unpack the enormous shift in international politics that’s unfolding.

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Apple has removed its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data.

Advanced Data Protection (ADP) means only account holders can view items such as photos or documents they have stored online through a process known as end-to-end encryption.

But earlier this month the UK government asked for the right to see the data, which currently not even Apple can access.

Now the tech giant has decided it will no longer be possible to activate ADP in the UK.

It means eventually not all UK customer data stored on iCloud - Apple's cloud storage service - will be fully encrypted.

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The US envoy to Ukraine has called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a "courageous leader" and said the pair had "positive discussions" in Kyiv yesterday.

Keith Kellogg's comments come after the White House national security adviser said Donald Trump was "very frustrated" with the Ukrainian president.

There has been a rift in recent weeks between the US and Ukrainian presidents over Russia.

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US actress Brooke Shields has been in the spotlight since she was 11 months old.

She spoke to the BBC’s Katty Kay about her experiences as a child star, the challenges of fame, and how Hollywood treats ageing actresses.

You’re watching Influential with Katty Kay, a weekly programme where the BBC's Katty sits down for in-depth conversations with some of the most powerful and change-making people in the worlds of culture, business, science, and more.

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Israel has accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire deal after forensic testing revealed the body returned from Gaza on Thursday was not that of Shiri Bibas.

The three other bodies handed over have been identified as her sons, Ariel and Kfir, who would have been aged five and two, and peace activist Oded Lifschitz, 84, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.

But the fourth body was not Shiri nor another hostage, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alleging that Hamas "put the body of a Gazan woman in a coffin".

A Hamas spokesman, Ismail al-Thwabta, said on X on Friday that Shiri's remains seem to have been mixed up with other bodies under the rubble of a structure after an Israeli air strike.

The group told Reuters news agency they would investigate what had led to the wrong remains being sent to Israel.

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The rift between the US and Ukrainian presidents over Russia has continued, with White House officials accusing Volodymyr Zelensky of insulting Donald Trump.

On Wednesday, Mr Zelensky rejected US demands for a share of its rare earth minerals - a "deal" Mr Trump said would reflect the amount of aid the US had provided to Ukraine during its war with Russia.

On Thursday, a planned press conference with President Zelensky and the US Chief Envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg was cancelled.

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India has been called “the pharmacy of the world” for its manufacture of high-quality medicines and life-saving vaccines.

But hidden within this high-tech industry, dressed as pharmaceutical executives, are drug dealers whose real business is to supply illegal, addictive, dangerous opioids to countries across West Africa.

BBC Eye Investigations goes undercover to expose some of the people getting rich from Africa’s opioid crisis.

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