By Parisa Hafezi and John Irish DUBAI/CALGARY, Canada (Reuters) -U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi have spoken by phone several times since Israel began its strikes on Iran last week, in a bid to find a diplomatic end to the crisis, three diplomats told Reuters. According to the diplomats, who…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that prisoner swaps between Russia and the U.S. helped to cement trust between the two countries at a time when they are trying to rebuild their ties. A Russian-American spa-worker Ksenia Karelina, who had been sentenced to 12 years in prison in Russia, was…
Right-wing commentator Laura Loomer on Wednesday suggested that there could be a possible ‘China link’ to the recent Signal chat leak row that is troubling the Trump administration. The 31-year-old brought up principal deputy national security advisor Alex Wong’s wife Candice Chiu, whose parents worked in Hong Kong. However, Loomer did not provide any concrete…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to hold talks on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin as he looks to get buy-in on a U.S. ceasefire proposal that he hopes can create a pathway to ending Russia’s devastating war on Ukraine. The White House is optimistic that peace is within reach even as…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he would speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday as he pushes to end the war in Ukraine. The U.S. leader disclosed the upcoming conversation to reporters while flying from Florida to Washington on Air Force One on Sunday evening. “We will see if we have something…
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to speak this week as the U.S. tries to broker a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war, according to Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff. It would be the second publicized call between the two leaders since Trump began his second…
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he was “being a little bit sarcastic” when he repeatedly claimed as a candidate that he would have the Russia-Ukraine war solved within 24 hours — and even before he even took office. Trump was asked about the vow he repeatedly made on…
Donald’s Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday night in Moscow as the White House pushes the Kremlin to accept a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine. “The meeting between Witkoff and President Vladimir Putin will take place in a closed format this evening,” Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said in…
The Kremlin has said it does not consider the United States envoy for the Middle East, who arrived in Moscow on Thursday, to be a mediator for the war in Ukraine. Steve Witkoff landed in the Russian capital after flying in from Qatar, where he had been involved in indirect talks between Israel and Hamas….
President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to discuss the outcome of the recent talks between US and Russian officials, according to the Kremlin. “One can expect it,” state news agency Tass quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying in Moscow on Friday. Peskov had been asked if Putin was…