The Daily Populous

Saturday August 9th, 2025 day edition

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The Ukrainian president said Kyiv was ready for real solutions that could bring peace but that any solutions without Ukraine would be against peace.

They will achieve nothing,” he said, adding that the war “cannot be ended without us, without Ukraine”.

Trump said he planned to meet the Russian president next Friday in Alaska.

Russian state media agency Tass confirmed the date and location of the meeting, citing Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov.

Putin has said he is not ready to meet Zelenskyy, even as the Kremlin claimed preparations were under way for a bilateral summit with Trump next week.

Last month, Trump issued an ultimatum for Putin to agree to a ceasefire or face secondary sanctions with the deadline set for this Friday.

“Putin … talks nice and then he bombs everybody in the evening,” Trump said last month. »

Australians are pushing back against ‘authoritarian’ anti-protest laws in ‘a return to the spirit of the 60s’

Authored by theguardian.com

View image in fullscreen Activist Hall Greenland sorts through newspaper articles, photos and memorabilia from protests in the 1960s.

Protest in Australia is broadly lawful, with the constitution holding the implied right to freedom of political communication.

He accused the premier and the caucus of gagging and bullying him, and “stultifying the internal culture of the party”. »

Nexon-owned game studio enters “indefinite strike” over employee bonuses allegedly being slashed while executive bonuses increased

Authored by automaton-media.com

The strike at Neople, the studio behind the multibillion-dollar Dungeon Fighter franchise, has intensified.

As reported by ThisIsGame, employees of the Nexon-owned subsidiary started organizing walkouts five days a week (as opposed to three) starting July 31.

The strike has no set end date and is intended to last until management agrees to clearly explain how performance bonuses are calculated. »