Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs to return to the negotiating table and strike a deal on US access to Ukraine's critical minerals, White House national security adviser Mike Waltz has said.
On Wednesday, Zelensky rejected US demands for (...)
Is French President Emmanuel Macron's gamble starting to pay off?
After organizing two emergency meetings this week in Paris with EU countries and NATO member states to devise a united response to the rapprochement between Moscow and the US, it (...)
Russian authorities have released an American national who was arrested at a Moscow airport this month for cannabis possession, the US state department has confirmed.
Kalob Byers, 28, was stopped at Vnukovo International Airport on 7 February after (...)
US President Donald Trump pushed back Tuesday against Ukraine's objections to being excluded from talks between the US and Russia in Saudi Arabia aimed at ending the war in eastern Ukraine.
He also seemed to suggest that Ukraine was to blame for a (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron got straight on the phone to Donald Trump and, separately, to Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday night, after fellow leaders of Europe's biggest military powers left the glittering Elysée Palace in Paris.
What (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia hosted historic U.S.-Russia talks on Tuesday, aimed at improving relations between the two countries.
This initiative aligns with the directive of Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, reaffirming Saudi Arabia's (...)
When US President Donald Trump wanted someone to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin last week to open negotiations for a potential deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, he didn't dispatch his secretary of state.
The man he sent to the Kremlin to (...)
High-stakes talks between the United States and Russia have commenced at Al-Diriyah Palace in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, under Saudi mediation aimed at improving relations between the two nations and fostering global security and stability.
The (...)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday laid out a multi-track approach to restoring diplomatic ties with Russia and ending the three-year-long Ukraine war following high-level talks in Riyadh.
Speaking at a press conference alongside National (...)
The United States and Russia have agreed to address outstanding issues concerning their diplomatic missions "once and for all," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday following high-level talks in the Saudi capital.
Describing the (...)
As the dust settled on the Munich Security Conference, European leaders were left caught off guard by the recent statements of the Trump administration on the war in Ukraine and European defense.
After a phone call with Russian President Vladimir (...)
US President Donald Trump's approach to ending Russia's almost three-year-long war against Ukraine has left European allies and Ukrainian officials concerned they are being sidelined by the new US administration's plans for direct negotiations over (...)
Russia and Syria are engaged in ongoing negotiations regarding Moscow's military presence in Syria, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirmed on Friday.
Speaking at a press briefing in Moscow, Zakharova stated that details of (...)
The first of two vessels carrying 1,000 tons of a Chinese-made chemical that could be a key component in fuel for Iran's military missile program has anchored outside the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas on Thursday, ship tracking data shows. It could (...)
A Russian drone attack has hit the radiation shelter over the damaged reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
The overnight strike hit the shelter of the plant's destroyed former fourth power (...)
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the war between Ukraine and Russia "must end," that Kyiv joining NATO is unrealistic and that the US will no longer prioritize European and Ukrainian security as the Trump administration (...)
Accused Russian money launderer Alexander Vinnik is being released from US custody in exchange for Marc Fogel, a Trump administration source told CNN Wednesday.
Vinnik is accused of running a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency exchange that (...)
More than 100 fishermen were rescued from a sheet of floating ice that drifted into waters off Russia's remote Far East, authorities said Wednesday.
The 139 fishermen became stranded when a 10-meter (32 feet) crack formed an ice floe that broke away (...)
Marc Fogel, an American teacher who was deemed wrongfully detained by Russia, has been released in what the White House described as a diplomatic thaw that could advance negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
Steve Witkoff, a special envoy for (...)
One person has been killed and four injured in Russia's latest missile attack on Ukraine's capital overnight.
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said a nine-year-old girl was among the injured in the attack in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed that he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about efforts to end the war in Ukraine, stating that the Russian leader is eager to bring the conflict to a close.
In an interview with The New York Post on (...)
Nearly three and a half decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity-grid connections to neighboring Russia and Belarus — and lean in more with their (...)
The founder of a pro-Russian militia group in eastern Ukraine, described by authorities in Kyiv as a "criminal mastermind", has died following a bombing in central Moscow, according to Russian state media.
Armen Sarkisyan died Monday at a Moscow (...)
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are being considered as possible venues for a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, two Russian sources familiar with the discussions told Reuters.
Trump has (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia is ready to negotiate with Ukraine but claims there isn't any 'desire' on the Ukrainian side to solve legal issues.
"If there is a desire to negotiate and find a compromise solution, let anyone conduct (...)
