Donald 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 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 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 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 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 MoreRussian naval vessels appear to have temporarily left their main port in Syria, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show. Ukrainians in Chicago are fearful — but also hopeful — of what a second Donald Trump presidency will mean for Putin’s targeted war on their homeland
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 MoreIsrael says it has concluded strikes on Iranian military targets and all its planes have returned safely home. Satellite imagery shows renovation work at an old Soviet-era laboratory called Sergiev Posad-6 - previously quiet for decades - with several new buildings bearing hallmarks of biological labs designed to handle extremely dangerous pathogens
Read MoreThe beleaguered UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Russia on Wednesday to attend the BRICS summit, where he’s expected to meet with Vladimir Putin. The U.S. Justice Department warned Elon Musk that his $1 million sweepstakes to registered voters in swing states may violate federal law.
Read MoreFrench protesters rage at ‘stolen election’ as Macron picks conservative Europhile for PM. Iran recently transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to use in the war against Ukraine
Read MorePoland is considering a Ukrainian proposal to intercept Russian rockets that are on course to hit cities in Ukraine or enter Polish territory, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says at least 90 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a designated humanitarian area
Read MoreThe far right makes big gains in the French parliamentary election first round, according to exit polls. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Sunday presented a new alliance with Austria's far-right Freedom Party and the main Czech opposition party, which hopes to attract other partners and become the biggest hard right-wing group in the European Parliament
Read MoreDemocratic leaders and donors on Friday tried to make sense of the devastating performance by President Joe Biden during the first televised debate of the 2024 election. From Kyiv to Berlin to Taipei, allies began to ponder the prospect of a return of bully diplomacy in the form of a second Donald Trump administration. And across the Atlantic, with less than a week until polling day, the Conservatives in the United Kingdom are heading for the worst general election result in their 190-year history.
Read MoreJoe Biden gave a stumbling performance in a 90-minute showdown with Donald Trump - the first televised debate of the 2024 presidential election campaign. Biden ended the night with the Democratic Party in crisis with serious conversations taking place behind the scenes among senior figures over whether his candidacy is now suitable.
Read MoreWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walked out of court a free man Wednesday after a hours-long court appearance in which he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of violating the Espionage Act. Thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, and some broke into Parliament and briefly set fire to the entrance on Tuesday, after lawmakers approved tax increases that critics said would drive up the cost of living for millions.
Read MoreAt least two dead and 54 injured in Kharkiv in what local officials describe as a direct hit on a densely populated residential complex.
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