The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

‘My memory is fine,’ president tells reporters in testy exchanges over special counsel investigation. Plus, Tucker Carlson meets Putin

A group of Russian tourists arrived in Pyongyang on Friday, AFP reporters saw, the first known foreign tour group to visit nuclear-armed North Korea since before pandemic-linked border closures.

Rishi Sunak says Europe cannot let Putin’s own expansionism ‘go unchecked’

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US department report describes president as ‘well-meaning elderly man with poor memory’, while Beale found not guilty of charges

The risk of a "major miscalculation" in the Middle East is growing by the day as the war between Israel and Hamas rages on, Comfort Ero, president of the Crisis Group NGO, told AFP. Ongoing conflicts across the globe, from Sudan to Ukraine, are also creating a bleak geopolitical landscape.

President Vladimir Putin said Russia hasn’t achieved its objectives in Ukraine yet, adding in an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he would consider negotiations if the US stops supplying weapons to Kyiv.

The right-wing provocateur flew to Moscow to interview the Russian president, becoming the first American to do so since the invasion of Ukraine. They spoke for two hours.

As the war enters its 716th day, these are the main developments.