1 hour ago 'I don't know him': Trump dodges question on Peter Mandelson's sacking over relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

Donald Trump concluded his state visit with a press conference alongside Sir Keir Starmer, where the leaders answered questions on freedom of speech, immigration and the war in Ukraine

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2 h. ago Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin has 'really let me down' as he and Keir Starmer up the pressure on Russia during state visit

The president used a press conference with the Prime Minister during his state visit to the UK to lash out at the Kremlin tyrant, days after his weapons violated Nato airspace in Poland .

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2 h. ago Trump says Putin ‘really let me down’ amid stalled peace efforts

The US president said he had thought the war with Ukraine, which he previously claimed he could end in one day, would be ‘the easiest’ to settle.

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65 h. ago Putin is trying to trick Donald Trump, Zelensky says as he calls for 'force to be used' against Russia

Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Vladimir Putin of trying to trick Donald Trump, and has called for allies to use force against Russia. 

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3 d. ago RAF deploys fighter jets in response to 'aggression from Vladimir Putin'

The UK will deploy RAF jets to Poland in response to 'increased aggression from Putin', Sir Keir Starmer has said

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4 d. ago Trump is no 'strongman' when it comes to Russia or Israel. If other democracies don’t step up, anarchy awaits | Simon Tisdall

Putin and Netanyahu are creating chaos in the vacuum left by a weak US president. But there are still ways to foil themIt is too easy to blame Donald Trump for everything that goes wrong in the world. The ability of any US president to fundamentally change or control the behaviour of other major powers is frequently overestimated. Yet by posing as a sort of uncrowned global monarch and grand arbiter of war and peace, Trump perpetuates fantasies of US hegemony, omnipotence and divine right. Intoxicated by such ego-inflating delusions, he pledged before taking office to swiftly end the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts. Perhaps, in his vanity and hubris, he truly believed he could.Eight months on, the exact opposite is happening. Both crises are expanding and escalating. The bubble has burst, his bluff has been called, the emperor has no clothes – and there is no denying that Trump, by alternately appeasing, excusing and encouraging the two foremost villains of these twin tragedies, is great...

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8 d. ago Healey asks military to look at how UK can help bolster Polish defences

The Defence Secretary held talks in London with defence officials from Poland, Italy, France and Germany.

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8 d. ago Starmer calls for more pressure on Russia as Trump mulls tougher sanctions

The Prime Minister and Nato chief Mark Rutte said Moscow should be slapped with stronger sanctions.

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1 week ago Ukraine shows diplomats damage after Russia's largest aerial attack since invasion

Senior Ukrainian officials have led 60 foreign diplomats on a tour of damaged government offices in the heart of Kyiv

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2 w. ago The Latest: New Polish president endorsed by Trump visits White House

Poland’s new president is visiting the White House hoping to strengthen his relationship with President Donald Trump and make the case that the U.S. needs to maintain its strong military presence in his country

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2 w. ago A summit and parade in China may signal a geopolitical shift. They might also be political jockeying

The pictures from this week’s military parade in Beijing commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the earlier economic gathering would seem to offer a striking, maybe even sinister, message to the United States and its allies — evidence of a possible new reconfiguration of rising power in Eurasia, an “Axis of Upheaval,” as one U.S. analyst has called it

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2 w. ago Trump’s belligerence is pushing Xi, Putin and Kim together – and tearing the old world order apart | Simon Tisdall

The three-way partnership on show in Beijing is united in opposition to US hegemony and a western-dominated financial systemSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreDonald Trump’s first reaction to the disconcerting spectacle of China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un marching side-by-side at a huge military parade in Beijing was, predictably, all about him. This show of solidarity and strength, he complained, was nothing less than an attempt to “conspire” against the United States. Trump likes military parades – his own, that is. Even more, he likes to be on the podium, at the centre of attention. He casts himself as world number one. The images coming out of the Chinese capital this week challenged him on all three counts.This puncturing of Trump’s insecure ego, and the striking feebleness of his response, will greatly grat...

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2 w. ago Russia launches over 500 drones and missiles at Ukraine as Zelenskyy seeks more support

Russia has launched over 500 drones and two dozen missiles at Ukraine, targeting civilian infrastructure, especially energy facilities

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2 w. ago Xi, Putin and Kim: behind the choreographed image that could symbolise a shift in the global balance of power

In an unprecedented spectacle the leaders of Russia, China and North Korea led a group of more than 20 world leaders at a victory day parade in BeijingFull report: Xi Jinping appears with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un at China military paradeIt is an image that, had it been published just a few years ago, would have been dismissed as a piece of mischievous photo-shopping: the leaders of Russia and China, accompanied by the head of a pariah regime whose mission to arm his country with nuclear weapons had been opposed at the United Nations by his two companions.But dramatic shifts in the geopolitical landscape – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and, crucially, the re-election of Donald Trump – have combined to bring Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un together in what many observers are calling a dramatic redrawing of the global balance of power. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Kim Jong Un rides his trademark green train to China. He also has a plane, limos and white horses

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is set to arrive in China aboard his trademark green armored train

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2 w. ago Asian shares are mixed and gold sets a fresh record high of over $3,550 per ounce

The price of gold has hit a new record and world shares are mixed after U.S. markets were closed for the Labor Day holiday

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2 w. ago Putin claims he's reached 'understandings' with Trump over Ukraine war

Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken of his 'understandings' with Donald Trump over the war in Ukraine as the world awaited his decision on talks with Volodymyr Zelensky

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2 w. ago Putin persists, Trump dithers – and a just peace for Ukraine still seems a long way off | Olga Chyzh

The US president could embrace the role of peacemaker, or become the patsy who restored Russia’s imperial standingThe past few weeks have seen a flurry of activity billed as progress in the Russia-Ukraine peace process. Yet for Ukrainians, the reality remains unchanged: airstrikes still thunder across their cities, homes still burn, lives are still lost. Against this grim backdrop, the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, has seemed more than content to bask in the literal red-carpet treatment afforded by the president of the United States.Donald Trump, who has anointed himself mediator of this war, has nearly exhausted the lexicon of contradiction. Some days he proclaims that he alone can end this war. Then he insists that peace talks should be left to the two parties. At times he boasts that Putin “respects” him; at others, he castigates Putin for “going absolutely crazy”. This month, Trump vacillated between putting US troops on the table and ruling it out. Now he is reportedly consid...

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2 w. ago Donald Trump could deploy private army to Ukraine to keep Vladimir Putin at bay

Armed contractors would be given the task of protecting American interests in war-battered Ukraine, and rebuilding the country's front lines

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2 w. ago Peace efforts in limbo as Ukraine's capital mourns 23 dead after Russian attack

Officials say the death toll in a major Russian missile and drone strike on the Ukrainian capital has risen to 23, including four children

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