The issue of territory is still the ‘most problematic’ in peace talks to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict, an official familiar with the negotiations told news agency AFP. They said that Russian President Putin does not wish to enter into an agreement without territory, amid pressure from the US to reach an agreement. Earlier on Sunday,…
US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff held productive talks with Ukraine’s senior negotiator Rustem Umerov in Miami over the past two days, US officials said on Friday, with further talks scheduled for Saturday. US special envoy Steve Witkoff, right, Russian presidential foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, left, Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO Kirill…
US President Donald Trump hinted at supporting the proposed Senate legislation to sanction countries conducting business with Russia, as he said that such a measure would be “okay with me,” amid a long-running push to cut Moscow’s access to funding. “The Republicans are putting in legislation that is very tough, sanctioning, etcetera, on any country…
Pakistan said Sunday it was committed to “dialogue” with Afghanistan despite peace talks ending after Kabul’s warning of a war with Islamabad. The two sides met in Istanbul in an effort to cement a truce agreed on October 19 in Qatar, after dozens of people were killed in cross-border fire between the neighbours.(AFP) According to…
Donald Trump no longer plans to meet Vladimir Putin in Hungary, the White House confirmed. The US president will not meet the Russian leader in the “immediate future” after a phone call between negotiators to prepare for peace talks turned sour. On Thursday, Mr Trump announced he would hold a second summit with Putin in…
President Donald Trump has called for Russia and Ukraine to “stop where they are” and quit fighting after concluding talks in Washington Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Taking to Truth Social late Friday afternoon, Trump wrote that “it is time to stop the killing, and make a DEAL! Enough blood has been shed, with…
President Donald Trump’s potentially historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas, which aims to finally release all the remaining hostages taken on October 7, 2023, faces several significant hurdles even as the administration remains positive it can close the deal. “No one said this is going to be easy. This is good progress, but a…
Video has surfaced of a recent meeting between European leaders during which they joked about President Donald Trump’s verbal slip when discussing peace deals he’d brokered, naming one between Albania and Azerbaijan – a war that never happened. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama jokingly scolds his colleague French President Emmanuel Macron that he didn’t congratulate…
President Trump is frustrated with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The question is whether he will ever be angry enough to do anything about it. Trump has told several aides in recent weeks that Netanyahu prefers using military force to compel Hamas’s surrender, instead of the president’s preferred method of a negotiated cease-fire. His frustration…
China has hit out at the US over President Donald Trump’s recent call for 50-100% tariffs on Beijing for its close ties with Russia. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has reiterated that China is committed to promoting peace talks for resolving hot-spot issues. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends a news conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia,…