For today, links to reports from Reuters and the Moscow Times; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (GAZA entry for this date and an ASSANGE entry are HERE and HERE.) — MCM

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Trump is handed plan to halt U.S. military aid to Kyiv unless it talks peace with Moscow, by Gram Slattery and Simon Lewis | Reuters   WASHINGTON — Two key advisers to Donald Trump have presented him with a plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine — if he wins the presidential election — that involves telling Ukraine it will only get more U.S. weapons if it enters into peace talks. The United States would at the same time warn Moscow that any refusal to negotiate . . . READ MORE . . .

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Kremlin says unable to confirm reports of U.S. drone downed over Black Sea. From the Moscow Times. Authorities in Moscow said today they could not confirm reports that a Russian fighter jet downed an American surveillance drone over the Black Sea after Ukraine launched a deadly strike against annexed Crimea said to have been carried out with U.S.-supplied missiles. READ MORE . . .