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Wimbledon To Scrap Russia Player Ban - Reports

British tennis chiefs are set to abandon their controversial ban on Russian and Belarusian players ahead of this year's Wimbledon championships, it was reported Friday. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year, the UK's governing Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) came under pressure from the British government to impose a ban. Russian and Belarusian players were eventually barred from all five ATP tournaments staged by the LTA, including the longstanding Queen's Club event in London.

Ukraine war: Over 100 Russian tanks destroyed in fighting in Vuhledar, says Kyiv

Ukraine is claiming that Russia has lost at least 130 tanks and armoured personnel carriers in a three-week battle near the southern Ukrainian town of Vuhledar.

Delays in criminal records checks a headache for hosts of Ukrainians

Delays in criminal records checks are ‘causing challenges’ for Salford people offering to host Ukrainians fleeing Vladimir Putin’s war. There are currently 300 applications from people in the city offering accommodation and DBS checks are awaited for 156 households under the city council’s Homes for Ukraine Scheme.

Ukraine war: Drone strikes, military drills and concert cancellations

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered officials to tighten control of the border with Ukraine after a spate of drone attacks on Tuesday.

China's peace plan: Russia says no conditions for 'peaceful' solution for Ukraine 'for now'

The Kremlin said on Monday that China's peace plan for Ukraine deserved to be studied in detail, but claimed the conditions for a "peaceful" solution had not been met "for now".

Twelve months that shook the world: What lessons on Russian invasion anniversary?

After the troop build-up, the failed mediation and Putin's speech denouncing Ukraine as a fiction, Russian special forces swooped for the Ukrainian capital's main military airport in a bid to establish an air bridge to seize Kyiv.

Ukraine War: Zelenskyy open to meeting Xi Jinping after China proposes peace plan

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he wants to meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to discuss Beijing's calls for a cease-fire and peace talks between Russia and Ukraine on Friday.

Ukrainian refugees thank Greater Manchester on anniversary of Russian invasion

Alina will never forget the words written in red block letters as she turned on the news one fateful February morning last year: "Putin started the war". As a journalist living in Kyiv, she had heard all the predictions that an invasion by Russian forces was imminent – but her brain didn't want to believe it, she says.

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Wimbledon To Scrap Russia Player Ban - Reports

Ukraine war: Over 100 Russian tanks destroyed in fighting in Vuhledar, says Kyiv

Delays in criminal records checks a headache for hosts of Ukrainians

Ukraine war: Drone strikes, military drills and concert cancellations

China's peace plan: Russia says no conditions for 'peaceful' solution for Ukraine 'for now'

Twelve months that shook the world: What lessons on Russian invasion anniversary?

Ukraine War: Zelenskyy open to meeting Xi Jinping after China proposes peace plan

Ukrainian refugees thank Greater Manchester on anniversary of Russian invasion