3 d. ago Developing world urges rich nations to defy Trump’s ‘climate nihilism’

Poorer countries want rapid emission cuts and more financial help in face of US leader’s stance on global heatingDeveloping countries are calling on the rich world to defy the US president, Donald Trump, and bridge the global chasm over climate action, before the goal of limiting global temperatures to safe levels is irretrievably lost.Diplomats from the poor world are rallying to the support of Brazil, which will host a crucial climate summit in November, after last year’s talks in Azerbaijan ended in disappointment and acrimony. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago 8 major flashpoints as Trump's Ukraine talks spark dire Putin warning from PM

Keir Starmer has warned that Vladimir Putin will strike again if the US doesn't provide a security guarantee as part of a Ukraine peace deal after attending an emergency summit

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5 d. ago PM says US ‘backstop’ needed for Ukraine peace after emergency talks in Paris

The Prime Minister’s appeal to the US president came after European leaders gathered in Paris for emergency talks on Ukraine.

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5 d. ago UK forces seen training Ukrainian troops as Starmer joins emergency peace talks summit

Footage of UK armed forces training Ukrainian recruits has been released by NATO as European leaders gathered in Paris today (February 17) for an emergency meeting on Europe’s role in the Ukraine conflict.

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5 d. ago BREAKING: Keir Starmer gives chilling Vladimir Putin warning as he backs Trump's peace plan

Keir Starmer and European leaders scrambled to Paris for emergency talks after Donald Trump announced he would open peace talks with Russia without European input

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5 d. ago Europe tries to shore up fragile unity as it realises it cannot rely on US

Leaders arrive at Paris summit for urgent talks on Ukraine after week that showed how far values have divergedEurope live – latest updatesThey came smiling, but the task was immense. After dozens of summits at which a hesitant and discordant EU had failed to agree on anything like a cohesive plan for the end of the war in Ukraine, this one had, suddenly and vitally, to be different.The leaders of France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain and – speaking for the Nordic and Baltic states – Denmark, plus Britain’s prime minister and the heads of Nato and the European Commission and Council, arrived in Paris reeling from a historic week. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Europe and US must not be divided over plan for peace in Ukraine, Scholz says after emergency summit – Europe live

Olaf Scholz says it is only possible to support Ukraine if allies contiue to finance itSwedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson told Reuters that deploying Swedish troops to Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping force is “absolutely a possibility.”His comments build on earlier declaration from Swedish foreign minister Maria Malmer Stenegard (9:40). Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Russia and US to meet for talks on Ukraine’s future after sidelined European leaders gather for emergency summit

Keir Starmer is joining Emmanuel Macron and other leaders in Paris amid concerns Europe and Ukraine itself are being frozen out of discussions

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5 d. ago Ukraine latest: Kremlin responds to Keir Starmer's plans for peacekeeping troops ahead of Europe's emergency leadership summit in Paris

MAILONLINE BLOG: Follow the latest updates on the Ukraine-Russia conflict as European leaders including Sir Keir Starmer meet in Paris to discuss an end to the three-year war.

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5 d. ago More than 46,000 Ukrainian troops killed defending against Russian invasion, says Zelensky

Latest figures come ahead of the third anniversary of the Ukaine Russian war

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5 d. ago Russia and US meeting for talks on Ukraine’s future as sidelined European leaders gather for emergency summit

Keir Starmer is joining Emmanuel Macron and other leaders in Paris amid concerns Europe and Ukraine itself are being frozen out of discussions

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5 d. ago As the US retreats, Europe must look out for itself – so is Macron’s nuclear offer the answer? | Simon Tisdall

Development of a joint defence shield would be politically explosive for Keir Starmer. But it’s an idea whose time has comeThe startling contempt for Europe’s intensifying security concerns displayed by Donald Trump and his henchmen has brought an old, controversial question back to the fore: should Britain and France pool their nuclear weapons capabilities and create a Europe-wide defensive nuclear shield to deter Vladimir Putin’s Russia, if the US reduces or withdraws its support?Trump has not so far explicitly threatened to cut US nuclear forces based in Europe. But speaking last week, the president said he wanted to halve the US’s defence spending, especially on nuclear weapons. Trump often denigrates Nato, keystone of European security. Last year, he encouraged Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to member states that, in his view, spend too little on defence. Continue reading...

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