News Wrap: Ukraine and European countries push U.S. to take tougher stance on Russia
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🗓️ 17 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The day's other headlines start in Paris, where delegations from Ukraine and other European |
| 0:06.0 | countries are trying to push the U.S. to take a tougher stance with Russia. |
| 0:11.0 | Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff sat alongside Ukrainian officials |
| 0:17.0 | and other European diplomats for the first time. |
| 0:20.0 | The parties all spoke as concerns grow about the Trump administration's recent overtures to Moscow. |
| 0:25.6 | In Kyiv today, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy accused Mr. Whitkoff in particular of, quote, spreading Russian narratives. |
| 0:33.6 | Back in Paris, after hours of meetings, French President Emmanuel Macron sought to keep |
| 0:39.7 | all the parties together. |
| 0:41.0 | I see this is very important occasion to have convergence with our Ukrainian friends and |
| 0:51.7 | the longs to the Europeans alongside with you. Because I think everybody wants to |
| 0:58.1 | get peace, for Europe, and a robust and sustainable peace. All of this unfolded as a massive |
| 1:05.6 | Russian drone attack hit the Ukrainian city of Nipro overnight. Officials there say three people were killed, |
| 1:12.2 | including a child. On a visit to Cambodia today, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that country |
| 1:19.3 | should resist protectionism in an apparent slight against U.S. tariffs. Cambodia is the last stop |
| 1:25.9 | on Xi's week-long tour of Southeast Asia, where he sought to |
| 1:29.6 | present China as a more stable trading partner than the United States. Cambodia is a major |
| 1:35.1 | exporter of clothing to the U.S. and was subject to an import tax of 49 percent before Trump |
| 1:41.6 | paused many tariffs until July. |
| 1:51.9 | For the second time in a year, a federal judge has found search giant Google broke the law to maintain a monopoly online. |
| 2:00.5 | This latest antitrust case said that Alphabet, Google's parent company, held an illegal amount of influence over online ad technology. |
| 2:01.1 | That follows a separate judge's ruling in August |
| 2:03.4 | that the company has illegal dominance in online search. |
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