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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska on Friday for their first talks since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Trump says he wants a deal to end the war, but Ukraine and its European allies fear any agreement that gives up Ukrainian territory could embolden Putin to push…

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Putin will bring old guard loyalists and younger financial power brokers to meet Trump’s most trusted advisers

The Taliban are starting their fifth year of ruling Afghanistan

Asian are mostly higher after most stocks on Wall Street fell following a disappointing report that said inflation was worse last month at the U.S. wholesale level than economists had expected

Days before the leaders of Russia and the U.S. hold a summit meeting in Alaska, Moscow’s forces breached Ukrainian lines in a series of infiltrations this week in the country’s industrial heartland of Donetsk

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin might be chasing different outcomes from the much anticipated Alaska summit on Friday. While the US president believes he can make a ceasefire deal with Putin, Russia's leader might have other ideas.

These are the key issues the leaders of the US and Russia will need to resolve to achieve an end to the war in Ukraine

Letter marking the anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese rule a sign of increasingly close ties between Russia and North Korea

Trump’s talk of ‘land swaps’ as a simple transaction belies grim reality of what it would mean for people in Zaporizhzhia

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton criticized President Donald Trump‘s decision to impose tariffs on India for purchasing Russian oil. Writing on X Thursday, Bolton warned the move “potentially drives India closer to Russia, contrary to U.S. national interests.”