3 h. ago Calls for Donald Trump's state visit to UK to be scrapped after Volodymyr Zelensky spat

Donald Trump became petulant towards Volodymyr Zelensky in a tense televised blowout in the Oval Office on Friday - and reaction across the world has been fierce

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6 h. ago Crunch Ukraine gathering at Downing Street rocked by tense White House exchange

Sir Keir Starmer will convene a gathering of European leaders at Downing Street this weekend, following Mr Trump and Mr Zelensky’s White House spat.

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8 h. ago Watch the moment Donald Trump turns into a raging bully as he flips on Zelensky

Zelensky was reportedly asked to leave the White House early without a deal being signed after a war of words broke out with Donald Trump - who accused him of being 'disrespectful'

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9 h. ago Volodymyr Zelensky trolls Donald Trump and JD Vance as Ukrainian president breaks silence on explosive Oval Office spat

Mr Zelensky issued an apology on X following the spat which saw him being kicked out of the White House.

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10 h. ago Donald Trump slammed for 'bullying' Volodymyr Zelensky as SNP MP calls for UK invite to be binned

The Ukrainian president was the subject of a dressing down from the US President in astonishing scenes in the White House.

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12 h. ago Donald Trump calls Zelensky 'disrespectful' as he warns Ukraine leader 'gambling with WW3'

President Volodymyr Zelensky is participating in one of the most important meetings of his life as he hopes to convince Donald Trump to extend the US agreement to defend Ukraine

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23 h. ago Trump tried to extort Zelenskyy and was impeached – now he may succeed

The Ukrainian president is expected at the White House on Friday to sign a multimillion-dollar minerals deal with echoes of a notorious 2019 phone callAlexander Vindman remembers the phone call – and what he did next. Serving on the national security council (NSC), he went to see his twin brother, who was the council’s senior ethics official, closed the door and told him: “Eugene, if what I’m about to tell you ever becomes public, Donald Trump will be impeached.”Vindman had set up a call between Trump and Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in July 2019. He heard the US president attempt to leverage US military aid to the country in return for Zelenskyy launching an investigation into Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, over his position at a Ukrainian gas company. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago Donald Trump threatens 'nice new law' against authors he doesn't like

Donald Trump threatened to punish authors of what he called "fake books" that use anonymous and off-the-record quotes with a "new nice law" while accusing them of being dishonest

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3 d. ago Donald Trump talks call for 'strong' Keir Starmer to save Europe from wider war

Keir Starmer will meet with Donald Trump in Washington DC this week in what has been called one of the most important meeting between a UK Prime Minister and a US President in decades

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4 d. ago US joins North Korea, Russia and Belarus at UN in refusing to blame Putin for Ukraine war

US president Donald Trump also refused to call Russian president Vladimir Putin a dictator

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4 d. ago Trump refuses to call Putin a dictator after Zelensky attack: ‘I don’t use those words lightly’

Donald Trump refused to call Vladimir Putin a dictator on the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, despite having previously described Volodymyr Zelensky with the same term.

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4 d. ago Donald Trump refuses to call war criminal Vladimir Putin a dictator despite branding Zelensky same

Asked in the Oval Office if he would characterise Vladimir Putin as a 'dictator', Donald Trump said: 'I don't use those words lightly' - despite branding President Volodymyr Zelensky the same

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4 d. ago The fight at the heart of the German election is simmering everywhere | Zoe Williams

In all similar democracies, left and right are having versions of the same argument: does ‘electable’ mean centrist or radical?As the German election results land, a lot of people are looking on the bright side: nearly 80% of Germans won’t entertain voting for Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). A nanosecond ago, however – as recently as Saturday – the idea that voters might go this far-right, in these kinds of numbers, for the first time since the second world war was terrifying. Some are calling this a victory over Donald Trump and Elon Musk, who vocally supported the AfD; others are calling it a victory for them.Nobody is puzzling much over the decline in support for Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic party – down 9%, almost equal to the AfD’s gains, although the numbers on switchers have yet to be crunched – because it was so long expected. The CDU/CSU alliance has won, with 28.5%, pretty much as the polls predicted. It’s an incredibly German story in its labyrinthine and laborious ...

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4 d. ago Donald Trump's government facing 'massive collapse' in just 30 days

Donald Trump has sparked controversy early into his second term after calling for the annexation of multiple countries and territories as well as his comments regarding Ukraine

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5 d. ago Jane Fonda savages Trump during SAG Life Achievement Award speech

Jane Fonda called Donald Trump a 'traumatized person' in a speech that did everything but mention him by name while accepting the SAG Awards' Life Achievement prize.

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5 d. ago Ukraine war live: Zelenskyy says he would give up presidency for peace and Nato membership

Comments come after Russia launches largest drone attack on eve of third anniversary of invasionVolodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to give a press conference this afternoon at about 14:30 GMT. We will bring you the latest lines from the briefing once its begins.The Russian government has supported comments made by US President Donald Trump about Volodymyr Zelenskyy - such as calling the Ukrainian leader a “dictator” - are “understandable” after Zelenskyy made “inappropriate remarks” about Trump. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago ANDREW NEIL: We CAN pay for a rapid rebuild of our military might

Pax Americana, which has successfully guaranteed the security of Europe, including our own dear islands, since the end of WW2, is dead, killed by Donald Trump's callous indifference.

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7 d. ago US envoy to Ukraine hails Zelenskyy as ‘embattled and courageous leader’

Keith Kellogg takes different tone from Trump, who contrasted ‘very good talks’ with Putin with cooler relationship with Ukraine’s leaderThe US envoy to Ukraine, Gen Keith Kellogg, has praised Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “the embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war”, striking a dramatically different tone from Donald Trump, who has called Ukraine’s president a “dictator”.Kellogg left Kyiv on Friday after a three-day visit. Posting on social media, he said he had engaged in “extensive and positive discussions” with Zelenskyy and his “talented national security team”. “A long and intense day with the senior leadership of Ukraine,” he said. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Justice Department files complaint against judge weighing challenge to Trump’s transgender troop ban

The Justice Department has filed a complaint accusing a federal judge in Washington of misconduct during hearings over President Donald Trump’s executive order that calls for banning transgender troops from serving in the U.S. military

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7 d. ago Madonna slams Donald Trump for calling himself 'a king' in her latest attack on the President

Madonna wrote, 'I thought this country was built by Europeans, escaping living under the rule of a King, to establish a New World governed by the people.'

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