The Kremlin has played down talk of an imminent summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, as Donald Trump renewed his call for the two leaders to meet to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
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A Chinese national in California has been sentenced to eight years in prison for shipping firearms and ammunition to North Korea.
North Korean officials paid Shenghua Wen around $2 million (€1.7 million) to ship two containers of weapons and other (...)
Hungary on Monday made a thinly-veiled threat to cut off electricity supplies to Ukraine as the diplomatic row over damage to the Druzhba pipeline escalates.
The fresh war of words erupted last week after a key distribution station of the Druzhba (...)
Chinese refineries have placed new orders for Russian crude that will be shipped from ports that typically supply India, as demand from the South Asian country for Moscow's crude slips following US President Trump's tariffs.
At least 15 cargoes of (...)
Unlike the shockingly ill-tempered previous meeting in February, US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky seemed determined not to look confrontational - despite their remaining differences.
Zelensky wore a collared suit (...)
India and China should view each other as "partners" rather than "adversaries or threats", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday, as he arrived for a two-day visit to Delhi.
Yi met with Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar - only the (...)
Donald Trump has said the Ukrainian president can end Russia's war "if he wants to", but there would be "no going into Nato by Ukraine" as part of a peace deal.
Hours before he was due to host Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House, Trump also said (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to allow the United States and its European allies to offer Ukraine security guarantees similar to NATO's Article 5 as part of potential peace deal efforts, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said (...)
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin said they had reached an "understanding" on ending the war in Ukraine following a nearly three-hour meeting in Alaska — but offered no specifics and left the summit without answering (...)
European leaders expressed strong support on Saturday for U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to advance peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, following his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
In a joint statement, European (...)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday in Washington, following the U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska that ended without an agreement to halt the war in Ukraine.
The summit produced what Trump and Russian (...)
US and Russian officials will converge on the state of Alaska ahead of a highly anticipated Friday meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
The pair will meet for the first time in six years, as Trump tries to enact a key campaign (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shook hands warmly on Friday at the start of a high-stakes summit in Alaska, where they are expected to hold hours of talks that could reshape the trajectory of the war in Ukraine and (...)
European leaders appeared cautiously optimistic after holding a virtual meeting with Donald Trump on Wednesday, two days before he meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
Trump reportedly told the (...)
North Korea has ridiculed South Korea's attempts to restart dialogue, while denying that it has removed propaganda loudspeakers from the border as Seoul has suggested.
Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, claimed on Thursday (...)
Russian authorities announced Wednesday they were "partially" restricting calls through the messaging apps Telegram and WhatsApp, the latest step in an effort to tighten control over the internet.
In a statement, government media and internet (...)
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has warned that Washington could increase secondary tariffs on India.
He said the decision would depend on the outcome of President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska on (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the Trump administration's "energetic" efforts to stop the war in Ukraine and hinted that Moscow and Washington could strike a deal on nuclear arms control during their summit on Friday in Alaska.
In his (...)
American officials scrambling this weekend to identify and lock down a venue for Friday's summit between President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart quickly discovered a major snag: summertime is peak tourist season in Alaska, and options (...)
European leaders will on Wednesday use a virtual meeting with Donald Trump to try to ensure the US president truly understands what is at stake for the continent before he meets Vladimir Putin later this week, but experts are doubtful they will (...)
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call to discuss their deepening ties and war efforts against Ukraine, both countries' state media said Wednesday.
The phone call comes as Putin gets set to meet with (...)
European leaders have warned against Ukrainian borders being redrawn by force – three days before Russia's Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump are due to hold a summit on Ukraine in Alaska.
In a statement, European leaders said "the people (...)
European leaders have reaffirmed that any peace talks with Russia must include Ukraine, issuing a joint statement ahead of a planned summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
The statement, (...)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that Kyiv will not make territorial concessions in any negotiations with Moscow, insisting that Ukraine's borders are defined by its Constitution and are non-negotiable.
"The answer to the (...)
US President Donald Trump said Friday that he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next week in Alaska to discuss ending Russia's war in Ukraine, though the Kremlin has not yet confirmed the details.
The Aug. 15 meeting would mark the first (...)
