Russian general killed in Moscow car bomb

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  This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Jackie Leonard.

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  And at 13 hours GMT on Friday 25th April, these are our main stories.

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  Russian officials have confirmed

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  that one of the Kremlin's senior generals has been killed in a car bomb attack in a Moscow suburb.

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  The US envoy,

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  Steve Witkoff has arrived in Moscow for talks with President Putin on how to end the war in Ukraine.

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  And aid workers in Sudan say people are dying of thirst and starvation after huge numbers were forced to flee the country's largest displacement camp.

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  Also in this podcast,

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  how a rare and remarkable caterpillar in Hawaii camouflages itself with bones and body parts.

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  The spider thinks that they're part of a past meal or actually part of its own shed skin.

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  And if they stop doing that, I think they would be removed from the gene pool pretty quickly.

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  Foreign.

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  As we record this podcast,

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  the US envoy Steve Witkoff is holding talks in Moscow with President Putin on how to end the war in Ukraine.

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  Donald Trump has claimed that the two sides are close to reaching a deal,

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  but this is thought to require Ukraine giving up large areas of territory.

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  More on that in a moment.

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  First, though, a senior Russian general has been killed in an explosion near his home in Moscow.

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  The Russia editor for BBC monitoring is Vitaly Shevchenko.

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