French President Emmanuel Macron has said a truce between Ukraine and Russia could be agreed in the coming weeks. He was speaking to Fox News in Washington following talks with…
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USA: Washington sides with Moscow in UN resolutions on Ukraine
The US has twice sided with Russia in votes at the UN to mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the Trump administration’s change of stance…
New Zealand: Minister resigns after he ‘placed hand’ on staff’s arm
New Zealand’s commerce minister Andrew Bayly has resignedas a government minister after he “placed a hand” on a staff member’s upper arm last week, in what he described as “overbearing”…
Germany: Conservatives celebrate, but far right enjoy record result
Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won Germany’s election, well ahead of rival parties but short of the 30% vote-share they had expected. “Let’s celebrate tonight and in the morning, we’ll get…
UK: Trump has changed Ukraine conversation- PM Starmer
US President Donald Trump has “changed the global conversation” on Ukraine, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said, three years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion. Sir Keir suggested Trump had…
USA: Macron to warn Trump against looking weak to Putin
French President Emmanuel Macron is due to meet Donald Trump in Washington later, the first one-on-one meeting between the pair since the US president re-entered the White House. Macron said…
Germany: New leader signals seismic shift in transatlantic relations
Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting didn’t wait for the final results of his country’s election on Sunday to herald a new era in Europe. Declaring the US indifferent to this continent’s fate, Friedrich…
UK: I’ll back Ukraine in talks with Trump, Starmer says
Sir Keir Starmer will discuss the importance of Ukraine’s sovereignty in talks with Donald Trump next week, he said in a call with the country’s president. The UK prime minister…
UK: Trump right to engage Putin on peace talks- Minister Bridget Phillipson
US President Donald Trump was right to re-establish links with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to set up peace talks to end the war in Ukraine, a senior Labour minister has…
Germany: Voting begins in high-stakes election
Germans are going to the polls after an intense election campaign dominated by their country’s faltering economy and a succession of deadly attacks that have made migration and security a…