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  CPAC: Republican hopefuls audition to be Trump’s VP pick With the Republican primary nomination drained of much of its drama, political conversation on the right is shifting to who the clear frontrunner, Donald Trump, might pick as his vice-presidential running mate. The former president himself has encouraged such speculation. He's sent out fundraising emails teasing his choice. At a town hall forum on Fox News, Mr Trump responded to a list of six names - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Florida congressman Byron Donalds, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard - as all on his short list. "Honestly all of those people are good," he said. Four of those mentioned are speaking at this week's Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in the Washington suburbs. The annual gathering of right-wing activists, lobbyists and businesses - domina...

  Two years into Russia's invasion, exhausted Ukrainians refuse to give up It translates as "crooked horn", but President Zelensky calls Kryvyi Rih his "big soul and heart". He credits this gritty, industrial city with moulding his character. He grew up in a sprawling block of flats known as the Anthill. When you stand in front of this towering structure, Volodymyr Zelensky's journey from this setting to wartime leader feels remarkable. "I want the war to end soon," says Vita, who lived near Zelensky's parents. "He's a normal, good guy who fights for people. I just want this war and the sirens to end sooner." But with minimal Ukrainian progress and growing Russian dominance, there is no end in sight, and that's both fuelling and being fuelled by influential pockets of Western doubters. At the recent Munich Security Conference, President Zelensky told delegates not to ask Ukraine when the war would end, but instead to "as...