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Ukraine war: Exhausted troops not holding out hope for peace Former DW correspondent Kostiantyn Honcharov joined the Ukrainian army in 2022. He describes the grim front-line situation after four years of fighting. Arab, Muslim nations rebuke US envoy's Israel land claim Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, suggested that Israel holds a biblical entitlement to a large portion of the Middle East. Fact check: Are China's robot soldiers just AI fakes? Videos that suggest China may be building a robot army sound like science fiction, but social media says it's real. DW Fact Check investigates. Ukrainian resilience remains strong as war enters fifth year Russian attacks have made an already harsh winter even harder to endure for Ukrainians. And yet, after four years of war, most remain determined to tough it out. Pakistan says militant hideouts struck along Afghan border Islamabad blames Afghan-based militants for a surge in deadly suicide bombings in the country and said 7 camps belonging to the Pakistani Taliban were targeted. 1916: The bloody battle of Verdun The small, French town was the site of one of the bloodiest chapters of World War I, where German and French soldiers battled for 300 days — with neither side emerging victorious. Ukraine strikes missile plant deep inside Russia The Votkinsk factory, that produces ballistic missiles, is more than 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) from Ukraine. Giant tortoises reintroduced to a Galapagos island Ecuador released 158 juveniles in the first phase of an ambitious rewilding effort at the World Heritage Site. French rally for slain far-right activist Quentin Deranque Thousands have marched in Lyon to honor Quentin Deranque, a far-right activist who was fatally beaten by a group of attackers during a protest against the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party. No reckoning over ethnic cleansing of Bulgaria's Turks Bulgaria's Turkish community, descendants of Ottoman settlers, suffered severe persecution under the communist regime. Yet little has been done to address the injustice. US and EU battle over online censorship The EU and the US have very different views about the critical topic of censorship. Donald Trump’s envoy, Sarah Rogers, has attacked the EU’s new big tech laws while Europe wrestles with its far-right content problem. Israel says it hit Hezbollah sites in eastern Lebanon The strikes targeted Hezbollah command centers in the Baalbek area, part of eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, the Israeli military said. They are among the deadliest reported in the region in recent weeks.