46 m. ago Donald Trump departs for Alaska to meet Vladimir Putin to discuss war in Ukraine – Europe live

US and Russian presidents to meet in Anchorage, Alaska, starting at 11am local time, in what US hopes will be pivotal moment in efforts to end warUS president Donald Trump is now chatting with reporters on board of Air Force One.He says Trump is “a smart guy” and they “get along,” with “a good respect level on both sides,” saying he thought “something is going to come up.”“I noticed he’s bringing a lot of business people from Russia, and that’s good. I like that because they want to do business, but they’re not doing business until we get the war stopped.” Continue reading...

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67 m. ago Bondi sends ‘sanctuary cities’ letters to 32 mayors as Washington DC homeless encampments are cleared – live

US attorney general warns she intends to prosecute political leaders who are not, in her view, sufficiently supportive of immigration enforcementWashington DC’s only Home Depot was busy with contractors and customers on Thursday morning – but the Hispanic day laborers who usually gather and wait for work under the parking lot’s sparse trees were nowhere to be found.Two days earlier, masked federal agents swarmed the area and made several arrests, which were photographed by bystanders and posted on social media. Juwan Brooks, a store employee who witnessed the raid, said the agents grabbed anyone who appeared Hispanic. Continue reading...

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78 m. ago Putin preps nukes in satellite pics as British defence chief says 'Russia will lose'

The nuclear missile rhetoric is seemingly ramping up as Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to meet United States President Donald Trump in Alaska later today

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1 hour ago JD Vance's NIGHTMARE round at Donald Trump's golf course: US Vice President mocked after committing ultimate sin during UK holiday

The Ohio native took four efforts to putt the ball in the cup. Typically golfers aim to achieve a two-putt, with three efforts seen as a very bad result - making Vance's four a miserable performance.

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1 hour ago Preparations under way for Donald Trump to meet Vladimir Putin to discuss war in Ukraine – Europe live

US and Russian presidents to meet in Anchorage, Alaska, starting at 11am local time, in what US hopes will be pivotal moment in efforts to end warIn the last few minutes, US president Donald Trump appeared to recognise the importance of the occasion ahead, posting on his Truth Social account:HIGH STAKES!!! Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Trump and Putin set for Alaska showdown as sidelined Zelensky waits to discover Ukraine's fate: Live updates

LIVE UPDATES: Follow the latest updates as Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet one another in an historic summit in Alaska to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine.

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1 hour ago Russian foreign minister wears USSR jumper as he arrives at Trump

Donald Trump has said that there is a 25 per cent chance the summit might fail

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2 h. ago 'Boom' heard over large part of UK as locals say 'it's shaking our houses'

A Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 was reported making its way across southern England, just as Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are set to meet in Alaska for crunch peace talks

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2 h. ago DC police will share information on anyone officers encounter with ICE agents

AG Pam Bondi moves to scrap restrictions on collaboration between local law enforcement and federal immigration agents as part of President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown

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2 h. ago Protesters gather in Washington DC as federal law enforcement officers stop drivers – US politics live

At least one person reportedly arrested as protesters heckle law enforcement and warn drivers to avoid area as Trump makes false claims about crime levelsPam Bondi, the attorney general, said she has sent “sanctuary city” letters to the mayors of 32 cities and a handful of county executives, warning that she intends to prosecute political leaders who are not in her view sufficiently supportive of immigration enforcement.“You better be abiding by our federal policies and with our federal law enforcement, because if you’re not, we’re going to come after you,” she said, speaking to a Fox News reporter. “Our leaders have to support our law enforcement.” Continue reading...

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5 h. ago UK sends Vladimir Putin warning ahead of Donald Trump summit in Alaska TODAY

Defence Secretary John Healey said today's face-to-face talks between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was a 'first step towards serious negotiation' and ending the conflict

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6 h. ago How Russia is preparing for conflict in Nato’s new Arctic battleground

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 crucial to global security, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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7 h. ago 'Leaving Trump alone with Putin is like sending a piñata to a baseball bat convention'

The world would do well to remember history - In Helsinki, 2018, Donald Trump emerged from his meeting with Putin looking like a man who’d just been hypnotised by a slippery snake oil salesman

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8 h. ago 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

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8 h. ago Ukrainian defenses face a challenge as Russian troops make gains ahead of the Putin

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

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8 h. ago Trump's 'safe and beautiful' move against DC homeless camps looks like ugliness to those targeted

The clearing of homeless encampments in the nation's capital is unfolding under what President Donald Trump calls his Making D

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8 h. ago Final arguments in Jimmy Lai's national security trial in Hong Kong delayed over health concerns

The final arguments in prominent Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai’s national security trial have been postponed after his lawyer said he experienced heart palpitations and the judges wanted him to receive medical treatment first

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9 h. ago ‘What about our lives?’: emotions run high in frontline Ukrainian city over ceding land to Russia

Trump’s talk of ‘land swaps’ as a simple transaction belies grim reality of what it would mean for people in Zaporizhzhia The city of Zaporizhzhia, an industrial hub in south-east Ukraine, is as good a place as any to grasp the stakes of freezing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine along its current frontlines, or of implementing a “land swap for peace” deal as envisioned by Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.Since Russian troops began rolling into Ukraine in February 2022, Zaporizhzhia, with its broad avenues and Stalin-era apartment blocks, has been a 30-minute drive from the frontline. It has been under near-constant attack from missiles and drones. On Sunday, a Russian guided air bomb hit a bus station, wounding 24 people – just another day of suffering in a city that has known many of them. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Joe Rogan questions Donald Trump's assassination attempt story at Pennsylvania rally

Donald Trump spoke out in the aftermath of the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, but Joe Rogan was left questioning the legitimacy of the event

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10 h. ago Terry Cole, chosen to take over DC's police force, has spent 22 years at DEA

Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to be Washington’s “emergency police commissioner” as she carries out President Donald Trump’s unprecedented decision to take over the Washington police department

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