NEW DELHI: As efforts intensify to stabilise a shaky ceasefire between Iran and the United States, a new dimension has come into focus: China’s behind-the-scenes diplomacy. While Pakistan has positioned itself as the venue for talks, officials and analysts suggest Beijing’s role may ultimately prove decisive in determining whether the current truce evolves into a…
A power struggle has emerged between the two men Donald Trump has dispatched to end the war in Ukraine, according to reports. Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, is understood to have become frustrated with Steve Witkoff, Mr Trump’s peace envoy, for attempting to cut him out of peace talks. In November, Mr Witkoff,…
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…
WASHINGTON (AP) — With a fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal holding, President Donald Trump says he’s now turning his attention to bringing Russia’s war on Ukraine to an end and is weighing providing Kyiv long-range weaponry as he looks to prod Moscow to the negotiating table. Ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza was…
CAIRO (AP) — Israeli and Hamas officials are meeting in an Egyptian resort Monday in hopes of hammering out a potential ceasefire in Gaza on the eve of devastating war’s second anniversary. The indirect negotiations will take place in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh where the Israeli delegation, headed by top negotiator Ron…
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the United States that supplies of long-range missiles to Ukraine will seriously damage relations between Moscow and Washington but will not change the situation on the battlefield where the Russian army is making slow but steady advances. The potential supply of U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles to Kyiv will…
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel’s army called Saturday on Palestinians in Gaza City to move to a humanitarian area it designated in the south as it expanded its operations in preparation for seizing the famine-stricken city. including targeting high-rise buildings. Parts of the city, home to nearly 1 million people, are already considered…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Thursday with European leaders in Paris, along with President Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, to discuss ongoing efforts to broker an end to Russia’s war against his country that includes security guarantees for the war-torn nation. Mr. Trump has been pushing for Russia and Ukraine to strike a deal to end…
Vladimir Putin and his Russian delegation may have been welcomed on United States soil, but sanctions meant that when it came time to pay for the refuelling of their aircraft, they offered to pay in cash. Speaking about the summit and the current state of negotiations, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended Donald Trump’s…
Washington — Russia’s Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Trump to allow the U.S. and its European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the 3 1/2-year war in Ukraine, special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday. “We were able…