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US President Donald Trump will hold a phone call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Monday as part of his long-running effort to end the war set off by Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Trump had vowed during the US election campaign to halt the conflict within a day
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Polish liberals performed worse than expected in a presidential election on Sunday, an exit poll showed, as Rafal Trzaskowski from ruling centrists Civic Coalition (KO) scraped to victory setting up a close fight for Warsaw’s pro-European path. Trzaskowski placed first with 30.8 percent of the vote, ahead of
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday discussed Russia’s war against Ukraine with leaders of the US, Italy, France and Germany, a Downing Street spokesperson said. Looking ahead to US President Donald Trump’s call with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Monday, the leaders discussed the need for
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US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would speak to the presidents of Russia and Ukraine on Monday following talks between the two sides at which a Ukrainian official said Moscow’s negotiators voiced new demands before a ceasefire could be agreed. In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told
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In a powerful bipartisan move, over 220 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have co-sponsored Resolution H.Res.166, which lays out a clear position against the theocratic regime in Iran and signals support for the Iranian people's demand for democratic change. The resolution underscores that
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Russian President Vladimir Putin “must pay the price for avoiding peace” ahead of a European Political Community meeting in Albania on Friday. “Putin’s tactics to dither and delay, while continuing to kill and cause bloodshed across Ukraine, (are) intolerable,” Starmer said in a
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President Donald Trump can help bring peace to Gaza, a senior Hamas official said as he confirmed that the Palestinian group has told the US it is willing to hand over governance of the territory. In an interview with Sky News on Thursday, Basem Naim said his organization has shared
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Paris has filed a case against Tehran at the top UN court over two French citizens who have been held in Iran for three years, the French foreign minister said on Friday. The announcement comes as Iranian negotiators are set to meet with their counterparts from the United Kingdom, France,
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President Donald Trump said Iran has “somewhat agreed” to the terms of a potential long-term agreement with the United States, signaling progress in ongoing negotiations aimed at defusing tensions over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program. “We are in very serious negotiations with Iran to reach a long-term peace,” Trump
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Delegations from Kyiv and Moscow are set to hold their first direct talks on the possibility of ending the war in Ukraine for more than three years. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has announced he will travel to Turkiye, while Russia’s Vladimir Putin indicated he will not attend the talks.
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Iran will hold a fresh round of nuclear talks with European powers in Turkiye later this week, its Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. The talks with Britain, France and Germany would be held in Istanbul on Friday, ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said, quoted by state news agency IRNA. French diplomatic
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The possible deployment of French nuclear bombers across the EU will not enhance security on the continent, the Kremlin said Wednesday, after French President Emmanuel Macron said he was ready to discuss the issue. “The proliferation of nuclear weapons on the European continent is something that will not add security,
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Turkiye’s President Tayyip Erdogan has probably never held more global sway: he will host the first direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks in three years on Thursday, days after his country’s militant nemesis, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), dissolved. His growing capital as international statesman — working toward stability in Eastern
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US president Donald Trump said the whole world is looking at the opportunities available in the Gulf countries during the US-Gulf summit in Riyadh on Wednesday. Trump said the US was exploring the normalizing of relations with Syria's new government following his meeting with the country’s new
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US and European diplomats went on a flurry of calls in the hours after US President Donald Trump offered on Monday to join prospective Ukraine-Russia talks later this week, trying to find a path that would bring an end to the war in Ukraine. Trump’s surprise offer to join
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The US military is replacing its B-2 bombers with another type of bomber at a base in the Indo-Pacific that was seen as being in an ideal location to operate in the Middle East, US officials told Reuters on Monday. The Pentagon deployed as many as six B-2 bombers in