US President Donald Trump said Monday that a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine was closer than ever, as European leaders proposed a “multinational force” to enforce a potential peace accord.
US negotiators still want Ukraine to cede control of the eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions, collectively known as the Donbas, as a condition of peace talks with Russia, an official briefed on the negotiations told AFP on Monday.
The Kremlin on Monday called Kyiv’s non-NATO status a “cornerstone” in talks to end the war, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted some of the alliance’s members were against his country joining the bloc.
The EU must take “very important” decisions on funding Ukraine at a crunch summit this week, but talks over using frozen Russian assets are getting harder, the bloc’s top diplomat said Monday.
Chilean voters elected the most right-wing president in 35 years of democracy on Sunday, as official results showed Jose Antonio Kast with a thumping 58 percent of votes and his rival conceding defeat.
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said “a lot of progress” was made during talks Sunday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on a proposal to end the war with Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday he hoped the United States would back the idea of freezing the front line in Ukraine along its current shape at their meeting in Berlin.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said a shooting Sunday at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was “shocking and distressing”.
Hamas’s Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya said on Sunday that the militant group had a “legitimate right” to hold weapons and that any proposal for the next phases of the Gaza ceasefire must uphold that right.
Chileans elect a new president on Sunday, facing a stark choice between the most right-wing candidate in 35 years of democracy and the head of a broad leftist coalition.
