Melania Trump brokers ceasefire for Ukrainian city
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Melania Trump brokers ceasefire for Ukrainian city

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 24, 202628 min
  • Politics

The White House says the US first lady, Melania Trump, has brokered a local ceasefire for a frontline city in a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine. The truce in Oleshky, in the Kherson region, is due to begin on October 29. The White House says the city is on "the brink of disaster" without medicine, food and clean water. Residents of the city have resorted to eating garden weeds to survive. Also: Donald Trump files a lawsuit seeking to block Alaska's result in the midterms if the Republican incumbent does not win his Senate seat. We look at the legacy of...

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. I'm going to the market. I'm going to the market. I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Saturday the 24th of October these are our main stories.

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The White House says that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a humanitarian ceasefire in occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky, negotiated by the US First Lady, Melania Trump. A Republican lawsuit over the US midterms, and that's before election day has even taken place, we find out why Republican lawyers are taking action in Alaska. And with just a day to go until Brazil's

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presidential election run off, we look at how the nation is split between left and right. Also in this podcast, the company behind Chat GPT has announced that it will no longer train its AI models live on the internet. And remember this? The biggest thing about iPod is it holds a thousand songs. Now this is a quantum leap

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