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  "id": 16011286,
  "title": "Russia frees retired US schoolteacher in goodwill gesture as Putin meets Witkoff",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/russia-frees-retired-us-schoolteacher-in-goodwill-gesture-as-putin-16011286",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-22T06:17:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
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  "summary": "Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the release of retired US schoolteacher Stephen Hubbard at a meeting with US envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg.",
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        "outlet": "Interfax-Ukraine",
        "title": "Talks in St. Petersburg, Oslo constructive; work under way to organise US-Russia-Ukraine trilateral meeting – Witkoff",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/talks-in-st-petersburg-oslo-constructive-work-under-way-to-organise",
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        "outlet": "Ukrinform - Politics",
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      {
        "outlet": "Hindustan Times - World News",
        "title": "Russia frees retired US schoolteacher in goodwill gesture as Putin meets Witkoff",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/russia-frees-retired-us-schoolteacher-in-goodwill-gesture-as-putin",
        "published": "2026-10-21T18:31:20.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Fortune",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/putin-agrees-in-principle-to-resume-talks-with-washington-and-kyiv-to",
        "published": "2026-10-21T20:30:40.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Ajel English",
        "title": "Moscow and Kyiv back proposed trilateral talks with US in November",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/moscow-and-kyiv-back-proposed-trilateral-talks-with-us-in-november",
        "published": "2026-10-21T21:52:01.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Russia frees retired US schoolteacher in goodwill gesture as Putin meets Witkoff",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/russia-frees-retired-us-schoolteacher-in-goodwill-gesture-as-putin",
        "published": "2026-10-22T00:52:03.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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