The Kremlin on Wednesday slammed Europe for getting involved in talks to end the Ukraine war, as Kyiv and its European allies worry Washington and Moscow will reach agreements over their heads.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the “principles” of a revised US plan to end the war with Russia could lead to “deeper agreements” and that “much depends” on Washington.
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is sending his envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week as he seeks to close out a deal to end the war in Ukraine.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said Wednesday his government will propose $40 billion in additional defense spending over eight years.
The Israeli military on Wednesday announced a new “counterterrorism” operation in the north of the occupied West Bank.
Powerful explosions rocked Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, an AFP journalist heard, as the air force issued a countrywide missile warning early Tuesday.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping pressed the ever-sensitive issue of Taiwan in a phone call on Monday with US President Donald Trump, as he stressed the need to build on a fragile trade truce between the two superpowers.
US President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to begin the process of designating certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political group, as foreign terrorist organizations.
The White House pushed back against criticism, including from within the Republican Party, that US President Donald Trump is favoring Russia in efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Monday that after the United States and Europe discussed steps toward a Ukraine peace, “the next step must be: Russia must come to the table”.
