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A military diving team deactivated a stray naval mine off Turkey's northwest coast on Monday, Turkey's defence ministry said, the second such device to be defused in the area in days amid the war in Ukraine.

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Defence ministry says the mine has been secured and an intervention has been launched to neutralise it.

Talks to start in Turkey as Ukraine president seeks peace ‘without delay’. Plus, drama at the Oscars as Will Smith attacks Chris Rock on stage

Ukrainian and Russian negotiators will resume face-to-face talks in Turkey this week. Russia has increasingly focused on grinding down Ukraine’s military in the east in the hope of forcing Kyiv into surrendering part of the country’s territory to end the war.

Ukraine's president says his country could declare neutrality and offer security guarantees to Russia to secure peace “without delay” in new talks due to start in Turkey

The Kremlin said that peace talks between Russia and Ukraine may get under way in Turkey on Tuesday and it was important that they would take place face-to-face, after what it described as a lack of major progress in negotiations so far.

Turkey’s defense ministry says military teams are working to disable a second naval mine that was detected floating off Turkey’s Black Sea coast. On Monday, the ministry said Underwater Defense Teams that were dispatched to the site off the coast of Igneada, near the border with Bulgaria, had managed to…

Russia and Ukraine are due to hold peace talks in Turkey this week

Fresh talks are expected to begin in Turkey