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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Donald Trump is "living in a disinformation space" created by Russia.

The US president said he was more confident of a Ukraine peace deal following talks with Russia in Saudi Arabia, from which Kyiv was excluded.

On Tuesday, the US and Russia agreed to appoint teams to start negotiating the end of the war, in the first high-level talks between the two countries in almost three years.

The BBC’s Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale has examined the US president’s claims.

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Rapper A$AP Rocky has been found not guilty of firing a gun at a former friend.

A jury in Los Angeles acquitted the musician, whose legal name is Rakim Mayers, on two felony assault charges that carried up to 24 years in prison.

Terell Ephron claimed the Grammy-nominated hip-hop star opened fire at him during an argument on a Hollywood street on 6 November 2021, grazing his knuckles with one of the shots.

Mr Mayers, who is also a fashion mogul and the longtime partner of pop star Rihanna, denied the charges, arguing that the weapon was a prop gun and that his former friend, who calls himself A$AP Relli, was only after money.

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Australian authorities are euthanising about 90 false killer whales which survived a mass stranding on a remote beach in Tasmania.

A team of experts at the site said complex conditions have made it impossible to save them.

They are part of a pod of 157 whales that had beached near Arthur River, in the island's north west. The rest had died shortly after the stranding.

Tasmania has seen a series of mass whale strandings in recent years - including the country's worst-ever in 2020 - but false killer whales haven't mass stranded there in over 50 years.

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Donald Trump has blamed Ukraine for Russia’s invasion of its neighbour. Speaking after talks between US and Russia on ending the war, the US President told Ukraine: “You should have never started it, you could have made a deal … I could have made a deal that would have given them almost all of the land.”

Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 after issuing demands that it should never join the NATO alliance, starting a war that has caused hundreds of thousands of military and civilian casualties.

Mr Trump comments came after senior US and Russian diplomats met in Saudi Arabia for the first time in many years, to discuss ending the war. Ukraine and European nations were not represented at the talks. The US and Russia agreed to press ahead with negotiations to end the conflict.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said efforts to end the war must be "fair" and involve European countries including Turkey.

Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith, Tom Bateman, James Waterhouse, Steve Rosenberg and Jonathan Beale.

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Russia and the US hold peace talks in Saudi Arabia, but a noticeable absentee was any representative of Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergi Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have agreed to appoint teams to start negotiating the end of the war in Ukraine after talks in Saudi Arabia. Speaking after, Lavrov said his country wouldn’t accept peacekeeping forces from Nato countries in Ukraine.

Are relations between Russia and the US thawing? And are we on the brink of a deal? We speak to the BBC world affairs editor, John Simpson.

And, President Trump has said he wants access to Ukraine’s rare minerals. But what exactly are they? We speak to Dr Julie Klinger, author of Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes.

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Investigators are looking into what made a Delta plane crash land and flip over at Toronto's Pearson Airport on Monday, an incident all 80 people on board survived.

Airport CEO Deborah Flint said investigators will be reviewing the aircraft on the runway for the next 48 hours, adding that this was "not the time" to speculate on the cause of the crash.

The Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis skidded along the runway with flames visible before it came to a halt upside down.

Twenty-one people were injured, of which 19 have been released from the hospital, authorities said on Tuesday. The two patients do not face life-threatening injuries.

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Many will be delving into the world of Eora as Avowed is launched on Xbox and Xbox Game Pass - but back on Earth, the reality is that just 10% of gamers complete video games.

Speaking to BBC Newsbeat, Obsidian's game director Carrie Patel revealed how they've tried to make Avowed friendly for both seasoned RPG gamers and the casual, time-restricted players.

Carrie also revealed how Obsidian decided against making an MMORPG and what the future looks like for Obsidian under Microsoft's umbrella.

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Hamas says it will hand over the bodies of four hostages on Thursday, including the two youngest people held by the Palestinian armed group.

The group's negotiator Khalil al-Hayya said the bodies to be released would include those of the Bibas family.

That includes Shiri and her young children Kfir and Ariel, who were aged nine months and four years when Hamas kidnapped them during the 7 October 2023 attack.

Their father Yarden was released by Hamas earlier this month.

In exchange, Israel will free all women and those under the age of 19 arrested since last October and is allowing some rubble-clearing equipment into Gaza through the border with Egypt.

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The US and Russia will appoint teams to negotiate ending the Ukraine war, the US State Department has said.

It comes following high-level talks in Saudi Arabia where Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The four-hour meeting was "positive, constructive", a Russian at the talks said.

Neither Ukraine nor Europe were invited.

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Detained Britons Craig and Lindsay Foreman have been charged in Iran with espionage, the country's judiciary news agency has said.

Mr and Mrs Foreman were arrested in January but news of their detention, on unspecified security charges, emerged last week.

Judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir said that the couple, both aged 52, had "entered Iran under the guise of tourists" and "gathered information in multiple provinces of the country".

The couple had been on a motorbike trip around the world and had planned to stay in Iran for five days.

The UK Foreign Office's official advice is against all travel to Iran, saying British and British-Iranian dual nationals are at "significant risk of arrest, questioning or detention".

Having a British passport or connections to the UK "can be reason enough for the Iranian authorities to detain you", it adds.

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