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1. Coalition's Ukraine security guarantees include deploying troops if ceasefire is reached

   

   After almost four years of major conflict, Ukraine has been given a series of concrete security guarantees — backed by more than 30 countries including Canada — that it can take into possible peace talks with Russia.

2. Military 'always an option' to achieve Trump's goal of controlling Greenland, White House says

   

   U.S. President Donald Trump and his team are discussing various options for acquiring Greenland, including buying it, but the use of the U.S. military in furthering that goal is "always an option," the White House said on Tuesday.

3. Cuba discloses names of 32 military officers killed in U.S. action in Venezuela

   

   The names, ranks and ages of the 32 Cuban military personnel killed during the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces were published Tuesday by the Cuban government, which announced two days of mourning.

4. Lego unveils new ‘smart bricks’ with interactive lights and sounds

   

   Lego has unveiled new high-tech “smart bricks” it says will bring its classic toys to life with lights, sound and interactive movement. But one expert on early learning says the innovation may lessen the potential for imagination that makes Lego a good toy for children’s development.

5. Aldrich Ames, CIA agent who spied for Moscow for almost a decade, dead at 84

   

   CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a Maryland prison. He was 84.