Friday 16th October 2026. Ukraine 'betrayed'. Romania shipwrecks. Albania protests. Pakistan roof collapse. Austria dog bottle...
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Friday 16th October 2026. Ukraine 'betrayed'. Romania shipwrecks. Albania protests. Pakistan roof collapse. Austria dog bottle...

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 15, 20269 min
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Become a SEND7 supporter at send7.supercast.com World news in 7 minutes. Friday 16th October 2026. Today: Ukraine 'betrayed'. Romania shipwrecks. Albania protests. Austria dog bottle. Pakistan roof collapse. Thailand Queen pilot. Australia rat poison. US voting. Costa Rica prison. Senegal LGBT target. Mauritius curfew. And language noise. With Stephen Devincenzi Become a SEND7 supporter! Ad-free listeningBonus quiz episode every FridayDaily transcripts (written by us, not AI!)Vocabulary listsWednesday worksheetsAsk questions in Ask Me Anything episodes10% of our profit goes to Effective Altruism charities.You can be...

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Starting in Europe today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine will

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Good morning. This is Send7, world news in 7 minutes. I'm Stephen Devin Cenzi. Today is Friday the 16th of October, 2026. Starting in Europe today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine will restart its attacks on Russian oil refineries because Russia has continued to hit Ukrainian

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energy facilities. On Sunday, United States President Donald Trump said on social media that both Ukraine and Russia had agreed to an energy ceasefire. It appears that Trump invented the ceasefire, as neither Ukraine nor Russia said that they had agreed to a ceasefire and asked in an interview Zelensky said that he had never heard of it. Despite

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that, Zelensky said that they would stop attacking energy sites if Russia did the same. The governor of Russia's Ryazan region said yesterday that a Ukrainian attack had caused a fire at an oil refinery. In an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan, Zelensky said that he felt that Ukraine was losing the US and that he felt betrayed by Trump's recent decision

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