Russian-Tatar composer Sofia Gubaidulina died Thursday at the age of 93 in Germany, where she had lived since the collapse of the Soviet Union, her publisher announced.

She passed away at her home near Hamburg, music publisher Boosey - Hawkes said on its website, calling her "the grande dame of new music."

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Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Thursday that its troops regained control over the town of Sudzha in the Kursk border region after seven months under Ukrainian control.

“Units of the ‘Sever’ group of forces liberated the settlements of Melovoy, Podol and Sudzha during the offensive,” the ministry said in a statement published on Telegram.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin's ambivalent reaction to a proposed ceasefire as extremely manipulative. We now have all heard ... Putin's really foreseeable, extremely manipulative words in response to the concept of a ceasefire, Zelensky said in his nightly address.Putin said Thursday in his very first
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had made "a very promising statement" on a possible ceasefire in Ukraine but added that "it wasn't complete."

Trump's comments came after Putin said he backed the idea of a 30-day ceasefire but had serious questions about it that he wanted to discuss with his U.S.

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Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani stated Thursday that he had summoned the Russian ambassador after the umpteenth spoken attack by Moscow's diplomatic corps versus Italian President Sergio Mattarella. Strong condemnation of the umpteenth spoken attack against the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella. A male of peace and a symbol of
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‘We Cannot Trust the Russians&: Ukrainians Skeptical Toward Ceasefire Hopes‘We Cannot Trust the Russians&: Ukrainians Skeptical Toward Ceasefire Hopes‘We Cannot Trust the Russians&: Ukrainians Skeptical Toward Ceasefire Hopes
‘We Cannot Trust the Russians&: Ukrainians Skeptical Toward Ceasefire Hopes

KYIV, Ukraine — "Mother, do not scold me, do not scold me, I do not even know where I will die."

The haunting chorus of a Ukrainian funeral song echoes through the speakers of a battered old pickup truck, filling the air with a heavy solemnity.

Along Kyiv’s long Khreshchatyk Avenue, time seems to stand still. Throats tighten, tears fall. One by one,

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