1 week ago Putin not ready to meet Zelensky until agenda agreed, says Russia’s foreign minister Lavrov

Ukraine’s president says Moscow is doing ‘everything’ to stop a summit with Vladimir Putin

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1 week ago Putin is not ready to meet Zelensky for talks, says Lavrov in blow to Trump

Russia’s foreign minister said an agenda for a potential summit between the two leaders was ‘not ready at all’

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1 week ago Trump's latest attempt to release secret Epstein files rebuffed as 'diversion' by Clinton

Donald Trump was handed another blow on Wednesday when a federal judge denied his administration's attempts to release grand jury testimony from the Jeffrey Epstein case.

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1 week ago Trump is ready to ‘crush’ the Russian economy if Putin doesn’t meet with Zelensky, says Lindsey Graham

Republican insists sanctions could become necessary to punish Kremlin leader for snubbing diplomatic discussions on ending Ukraine war

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2 w. ago Starmer says White House meeting could be 'historic' as Zelensky says he's ready to meet Putin

European leaders have gathered in Washington as Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky met privately at the White House

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2 w. ago UK’s largest bioethanol plant to shut after blow from Starmer’s trade deal with Trump

Associated British Foods says 160 jobs will be lost at Vivergo site in Hull after ministers refuse to fund rescueThe UK’s largest bioethanol plant is to close after being dealt a body blow by Keir Starmer’s trade deal with Donald Trump.The owner of the Vivergo plant in Hull, owned by Associated British Foods (ABF), said it would close with the loss of 160 jobs, just hours after the government said it would not fund an industry rescue package. The first redundancies will be made on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump says he will meet Putin despite Kremlin’s refusal to talk to Kyiv

US president contradicts reports Putin meeting Zelenskyy was a precondition of a US-Russia summitDonald Trump has said he was ready to meet Vladimir Putin despite the Russian leader’s refusal to meet Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy – dispelling speculation that direct talks between the two warring presidents were a precondition to a high-level US-Russia summit.Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump said that Putin did not have to meet with Zelenskyy first before the US and Russian presidents could meet. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Putin ‘far from’ meeting Zelenskyy as Kremlin prepares for talks with Trump

Moscow dismisses US talk of three-way summit saying it ‘was not discussed’ with Trump envoy Steve WitkoffVladimir Putin has said he is not ready to meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy, even as the Kremlin said preparations were under way for a set-piece bilateral summit with Donald Trump next week.“I have nothing against it in general, it is possible, but certain conditions must be created for this,” said Putin of the meeting with Zelenskyy, speaking to reporters at the Kremlin. “But unfortunately, we are still far from creating such conditions.” Continue reading...

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