As Trump Courts Putin, China’s Leader Xi Emphasizes Close Ties With Russia

The Chinese and Russian leaders reaffirmed their relationship in a video call on Monday, an apparent rebuff to the idea that the Trump administration could drive a wedge between them.

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Russian and US leaders will meet face to face in move towards normalising relations, deputy foreign minister says. Preparations for a face-to-face meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin ...
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President Donald Trump holds talks this week with French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at a moment of deep uncertainty about the future of transatlantic relations
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President orders cabinet to give domestic producers preferential treatment as payback for sanctions
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Russia Closes In on Another Ukrainian Region, Even as Peace Talks Pick Up

Russian troops are three miles from Dnipropetrovsk, a region they have never invaded. If they cross into it, the advance would be a morale blow to Ukraine and complicate any territorial negotiations.
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Japan, Philippines agree to deepen defense ties due to mutual alarm over China

Japan and the Philippines have agreed to further deepen their defense collaborations and start talks on an arrangement to protect shared military information in the face of mutual alarm over ...
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Court drops charges against 3 people tied to the death of singer Liam Payne

A court in Argentina has dropped charges of criminal negligence against three of the five people indicted in connection with the death of Liam Payne, the former One Direction singer who fell from a ...
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Ex-leader of Reform in Wales accused of taking bribes for pro-Russia messages

Nathan Gill made comments and wrote media articles on Ukraine while an MEP, court hears
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Rubio’s Dilemma: Cutting Trump’s Deal With ‘Bloodthirsty’ Putin

As a senator, Marco Rubio prided himself on challenging tyrants. But as secretary of state, President Trump has tasked him with helping to potentially turn Russia from an enemy into an ally.
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‘The World Is There for the Carving’: Two Columnists on the Trump-Putin Alliance

We’ve never seen anything like this: a president who appears aligned with a Russian dictator in targeting the weak and the vulnerable.
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Macron to warn Trump against looking weak to Putin

The French president is at the White House to appeal to Trump against rushing into a deal with Russia.
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Ukraine or Russia: Whose Side Is Trump On?

Nick asks former UK foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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Trump Eyes a Bigger, Better Trade Deal With China

U.S. officials are considering whether they can strike a deal with China that would ramp up its purchases of American goods and investments in the United States.
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Trump trade overhaul clouds China’s shipping forecast

US president’s proposed new fees risk higher costs for companies, consumers and a struggling global trade system
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Trump to hold meetings on Ukraine with French and British leaders

One day after an angry exchange between Presidents Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy met in Kyiv with Keith Kellogg, Mr. Trump's special envoy. A planned joint news ...
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Trump's Ukraine policy alarming European leaders

There is alarm in Europe as leaders try to come to terms with the major foreign policy shift on Ukraine from the Trump administration. This week President Trump blamed Ukraine for Russia's invasion ...
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Arab Leaders Scramble to Counter Trump’s Gaza Plans

Leaders of Gulf states met with their Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts to strategize before a broader Arab summit early next month.
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China supports 'recent consensus' between US and Russia on Ukraine war, foreign minister says

China supports “the recent consensus” between the U.S. and Russia on the war in Ukraine, said Wang Yi, the country’s foreign minister, amid ongoing discussions about bringing an end to the nearly ...
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Former UN ambassador warns of potential repercussions of Russia-Ukraine rhetoric on China, Taiwan

Former United Nations ambassador Susan Rice warned that President Trump’s actions with ending the Russia-Ukraine war could have potential repercussions with China and Taiwan. Rice joined MSNBC’s ...
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Ukraine's fate hinges on US need to drive a wedge between Russia and China again

Diplomacy between adversaries is crucial to defuse tensions and prevent direct conflict.
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‘Like a cruel auction’: what Ukrainians think of Trump’s peace talks with Putin

Ukrainians inside the country and abroad express their hopelessness, anger and defiance at negotiations between Washington and Moscow. Europe live – latest updates “I don’t think that this ...
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Macron's message to Trump: 'You can’t be weak in the face of Putin'

French President Emmanuel Macron says he intends to tell Donald Trump that it’s in the joint interest of Americans and Europeans not to “be weak” in the face of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, amid ...
ABC News - 3d
Trump: Putin and Zelenskyy 'have to get together' to end the war

President Trump was asked about his comments towards Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Putin and called on the two leaders to meet in order to end the war between the ...
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Trump says he's had 'good talks' with Putin but not Ukraine

President Donald Trump said he's had "good talks" with Russia's Vladimir Putin but not with Ukraine, and that he's "sick" of how Volodymyr Zelenskyy has handled the war.
ABC News - 2d
Trump-Putin summit preparations underway, Russian foreign minister says

The U.S. offered a draft U.N. resolution that stops far short of a competing European-backed statement demanding an immediate withdrawal of all of Moscow's forces from Ukraine.
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Trump right to engage Putin on peace talks, says minister

Bridget Phillipson says the US thawing diplomatic ties with Putin "brought Russians to the table".
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Trump envoy Steve Witkoff on Israel-Hamas talks, meeting with Putin

Steve Witkoff, President Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, described the next phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, his 3.5-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the ...
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Trump envoy describes 3.5-hour meeting with Putin in Moscow

Steve Witkoff described a three-and-a-half-hour meeting he held with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this month, part of what he called a "trust-building" assignment.
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Trump 'miscalculation' may mean danger for Zelenskyy, win for Putin: Source

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared martial law early on Feb. 24, 2022, under Kyiv skies still tinged black by the smoke from Russian missile strikes.
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Trump: Zelensky 'has no cards,' 'shouldn't be at meetings' with Russia

President Trump on Friday lashed out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying he did not think it was important for Zelensky to attend negotiations about the war in Ukraine. Trump in an ...
The Hill - 3d
What’s really behind Trump’s abrupt pivot to Russia?

The president has shocked allies by opening talks with Moscow and criticising Ukraine. Will this dramatic shift in US foreign policy hold?
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In reversal, Trump says Russia attacked Ukraine

President Donald Trump reversed course on Friday and said Russia did in fact invade Ukraine, and that Kyiv would soon sign a minerals agreement with the United States as part of efforts to end the ...
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Trump, Macron take questions on Ukraine-Russia war

President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron met at the Oval Office and took questions about the future of Ukraine and the possibility of a deal with Russia. Mr. Trump also took questions ...
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Starmer to tell Trump that UK’s Chagos deal will avoid tensions with China

PM to claim if US rejects Mauritius’s claim to own the islands, Beijing will be drawn into the regional dispute. Keir Starmer is to urge Donald Trump to recognise that a US rejection of Mauritius’s ...
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Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders

A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out of jobs.
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Trump's Ukraine envoy calls Zelensky 'embattled and courageous leader'

President Trump's special envoy to Ukraine and Russia called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky an "embattled and courageous leader" after meetings in Kyiv on Friday, a notable shift from ...
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