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Chinese economy slows as Trump tariffs bite; FTSE 100 on track to hit new record - as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2025

Trump To Meet Putin In High-stakes Alaska Summit

US President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin meet Friday in Alaska in a high-stakes, high-risk summit that could prove decisive for the future of Ukraine.

International Business Times · Aug 15, 2025

How Russia is preparing for conflict in Nato’s new Arctic battleground

NEWS ANALYSIS: As the world’s attention shifts to Alaska for the critical summit on Ukraine between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, it also shines a light on an area that is crucial to global security, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

The Independent UK · Aug 15, 2025

US-Russia talks on Ukraine: who’s who in the delegations to Alaska?

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

The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2025

Afghanistan is starting its fifth year of Taliban rule. Here are 5 things to know

The Taliban are starting their fifth year of ruling Afghanistan

The Independent UK · Aug 15, 2025

Asian shares mostly gain after uptick in inflation pulls US stocks lower

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

The Independent UK · Aug 15, 2025

Ukrainian defenses face a challenge as Russian troops make gains ahead of the Putin-Trump summit

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

The Independent UK · Aug 15, 2025

Trump-Putin summit in Alaska: One meeting, different goals

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.

Euronews · Aug 15, 2025

What’s at stake at the Trump-Putin Ukraine peace summit?

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

The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2025

Putin hails ‘heroic’ North Korean troops fighting against Ukraine in letter to Kim Jong-un

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

The Guardian - AU · Aug 15, 2025