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In an interview with Fox News, Donald Trump dismissed Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's president, as powerless,

saying he has, quote, no cards in negotiations.

He also accused Sir Keir Stama, Britain's Prime Minister and France's Emmanuel Macron of doing,

quote, nothing to end the war. Earlier Mike Waltz, America's national security adviser,

said he expected Mr Zelensky to sign a

mineral's agreement with America, quote, very soon.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, vowed to make Hamas, quote, pay the full price

for the, quote, cruel and evil violation of the ceasefire agreement,

after one of the bodies Hamas returned on Thursday was not that of Shiri Bebas.

The militant group handed over four hostages remaining, including her two young children,

but failed to return hers. Apple will stop offering secure

encryption to users of its cloud storage in Britain after the government sought access to the data.

Last month, the American tech firm received notice of the government's request under a law

that critics called the, quote, Snooper's

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