France is discussing with its allies holding an informal summit of European leaders to discuss Ukraine, a French presidency official said on Saturday, and four European diplomats said the meeting was likely to go ahead on Monday. US and Russian foreign affairs chiefs hold bilateral phone call.
Read MoreDonald Trump says he had a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and that they agreed to start negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "immediately.” Both Trump and Kremlin spokesperson said the two presidents agreed to visit each other's nations
Read MoreDonald Trump says the United States should seize control of Gaza and permanently displace the entire Palestinian population of the devastated seaside enclave. Around 10 people were killed Tuesday in a shooting at an education centre in Sweden.
Read MoreDonald Trump launched a trade war against Canada on Saturday by imposing a 25 per cent tariff on virtually all goods. He also levying tariffs of 25 per cent on all Mexican goods and 10 per cent on goods from China. The website for the US Agency for International Development, or USAid, appeared to be offline on Saturday, as the Trump administration moves to put the free-standing agency, and its current $42.8bn budget for global humanitarian operations, under state department control.
Read MoreAn American Airlines passenger aircraft carrying 64 people collided midair with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, DC. No survivors are expected to be found. Egypt will not participate in the displacement of Palestinians.
Read MoreAt least 30 people have been killed and 90 injured in a crush at a huge religious festival in northern India. Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is not ready to sign a peace treaty with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Read MoreU.S. tech stocks plunged on Monday, amid a wider market sell-off. The European Union renewed on Monday its wide-ranging sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine, after Hungary stopped holding up the move in return for a declaration on energy security
Read MoreFor the second time, Donald Trump will be inaugurated Monday as president of the United States. Ninety Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are freed after the release of three Israeli captives held in Gaza under a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel. TikTok flickered back to life in the U.S. after being taken temporarily offline.
Read MoreIsrael and Hamas have agreed to a deal that will pause fighting in Gaza after 467 days at war and lead to the phased release of hostages and Palestinian prisoners. A panel of journalists and experts, gathered at Hong Kong’s iconic Foreign Correspondents’ Club on Wednesday, painted a bleak picture of what lies ahead in 2025 - especially when it comes to kickstarting the slowing Chinese economy.
Read MoreFirefighters are in a critical stage of their almost week-long battle against deadly Los Angeles blazes. EU shipyards are repairing Russian ice-class tankers and offering them dry dock facilities, enabling Moscow to continue moving gas despite western sanctions
Read MoreA day after making some progress containing fires, firefighters across Los Angeles County were bracing for another round of powerful winds that could threaten new communities and hamper efforts to contain the firestorm. Philippine economic growth is expected to accelerate this year & in 2025
Read MoreLos Angeles was on edge in Day 5 of an unprecedented fire siege that has already damaged or destroyed more than 10,000 structures and killed at least 13 people. German authorities have said an oil tanker stuck in its waters belongs to Russia's "shadow fleet", which Berlin says is used to avoid sanctions
Read MoreChina appears to be taking a page out of Russia’s playbook by signing growing numbers of visiting Taiwanese people up for local resident or even identity cards. Ukraine has launched a fresh offensive in Russia's Kursk region, the Russian defence ministry says. Jubilation broke out on the streets of Vietnamese cities and villages as the country celebrated its win over arch rival Thailand in the ASEAN Championships football match.
Read MoreAnn Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post, said she was resigning after the newspaper rejected a cartoon depicting owner Jeff Bezos genuflecting toward a statue of Donald Trump
Read MoreA Boeing passenger plane carrying 181 people crashed while landing at an airport in southwestern South Korea on Sunday. As of 10am GMT, there were at least 176 dead.
Read MoreThousands of Syrian insurgents took over most of Aleppo on Saturday, establishing positions in the country’s largest city and controlling its airport before expanding their shock offensive to a nearby province. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returned home after his meeting with Donald Trump without assurances the president-elect will back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner
Read MoreLawmakers in Britain voted on Friday to allow assisted dying for terminally ill patients in England and Wales under strict conditions. Vladimir Putin has an illegitimate daughter living under a pseudonym in Paris
Read MoreHere in Eastern Europe, it’s the day after of the last day of voting in the U.S. elections - and perhaps nowhere else are the results being watched as anxiously as in Ukraine. Thousands of people in Tel Aviv took to the streets late Tuesday after the beleaguered Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, fired the hugely popular defense minister Yoav Gallant
Read MoreIt’s the last day of voting in the United States in a tumultuous election that’s being billed as the most significant in a generation. But virtually every prominent pundit seems to agree: for all the polls, no one can say with confidence who is going to win.
Read MoreThe pro-Russian Georgian Dream party is set to extend its control of parliament, but there are cries of a "stolen election" from the pro-Western opposition. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a linchpin of U.S. space efforts has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022
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