54 m. ago Trump is undermining Europe’s new world order – much to Putin’s glee

Europe’s every move to try and force Putin into a peace deal is dogged by the US president’s flip-flopping on Russia, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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3 h. ago US could take lead in ‘buffer zone’ inside Ukraine to protect future Russia aggression if peace deal materializes: report

Trump has thus far declined to commit American forces to any peacekeeping effort in Ukraine

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8 h. ago Putin's war threat to the West: Russian leader vows to target any Western troops deployed to Ukraine after 'coalition of the willing' committed to sending soldiers in peace deal

The chilling threat came just a day after Kyiv 's allies said they had signed up to a plan that could see foreign soldiers stationed in Ukraine to guarantee any future peace deal.

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9 h. ago Putin says foreign troops deployed to Ukraine before any peace deal would be 'legitimate targets'

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that any foreign troops deployed to Ukraine before a peace agreement has been signed will be considered “legitimate targets” by Moscow's forces

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13 h. ago Donald Trump axes security aid to Europe's frontline against Russia in shock move

The US is dramatically phasing out crucial security assistance programmes for European armies stationed along Russia's menacing border, as Donald Trump aggressively pushes the continent to cough up for more of its own defence.

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24 h. ago London man arrested on charges related to child sex abuse material, police report

London man arrested on charges related to child sex abuse material, police report  LEX18

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32 h. ago Leaders gather for ‘Coalition of the Willing’ talks on Ukraine security guarantees – Europe live

Emmanuel Macron says Europe ready to provide such guarantees at meeting in Paris todayRutte gets also asked about his views on Russia’s opposition to the deployment of any Nato troops to Ukraine as part of security guarantees.He says:“But why are we interested in what Russia thinks about troops in Ukraine? It’s a sovereign country. It’s not for them to decide. Russia has nothing to do with this. Ukraine is a sovereign nation. If Ukraine wants to have security guarantee forces in Ukraine to support the peace deal, it’s up to them. Nobody else can decide about it. “Do you really think if he would not have been elected president united states, that Italy, Canada, Spain, Slovenia, Belgium and Luxembourg would have committed to do 2% this year? Do you really think that the whole of Nato would have committed to 5% committed to 5% including 3.5% core defence spending at the Nato Summit in The Hague?”“He took that leadership role, and it is not easy to solve this, but he is absolutely commi...

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47 h. ago UK troops could deploy to Ukraine straight away if peace deal reached says minister

Armed forces minister Luke Pollard told The Mirror an 'enormous' amount of planning has gone into a Ukraine peacekeeping operation as he hailed moves to improve recruitment and retention

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4 d. ago Report that rejects claim NI peace deal stops UK leaving ECHR sparks debate

Amnesty has said for the UK to repudiate the European Convention on Human Rights would be a ‘serious breach of international law’.

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4 d. ago Claims NI peace deal stops UK leaving ECHR ‘entirely groundless’ – think tank

The Policy Exchange claims public debate on human rights law reform had been ‘distorted’.

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9 d. ago Farage has no right to ‘tear up’ Good Friday Agreement – Hanna

But DUP MP Sammy Wilson has backed the Reform UK leader’s plans to renegotiate the peace deal.

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1 week ago Why another 2 MILLION Russians will have to die for Putin to save face in Ukraine: The horrifying numbers of a never

The claim comes as US President Donald Trump pushes Ukraine to accept a peace deal on Moscow's terms, warning that otherwise Kyiv risks losing the war.

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1 week ago Putin got 'everything he wanted' during Ukraine peace talks warns EU diplomat

A top European diplomat has claimed Vladimir Putin got 'everything he wanted' as hopes faded last night of a peace deal. The Russian President appears not to have made any concessions despite talks.

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2 w. ago Vance says it’s up to Europe to provide ‘lion’s share’ of Ukraine security guarantees

Vice President says it will up to neighbor states to provide ‘lion’s share’ of peacekeeping support to Kyiv if peace deal with Russia can be agreed

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2 w. ago Moscow demands veto over support for Ukraine under any peace deal and questions Zelenskyy’s legitimacy – Ukraine war live

Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, says European proposals to deploy troops in Ukraine after a settlement would amount to ‘foreign intervention’We have just heard from the European Commission, confirming that the EU and the US have now agreed on the much-awaited “joint statement” advancing the political commitments on trade agreed by Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump in Scotland last month.The commission’s press release says the statement “lays out in detail the new US tariff regime towards the EU, with a clear maximum, all-inclusive, tariff rate of 15% for the vast majority of EU exports, including strategic sectors such as cars, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and lumber.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Moscow must have effective veto over any measures to support Ukraine after potential peace deal, says minister – Ukraine war live

Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, says European proposals to deploy troops in Ukraine after a settlement would amount to ‘foreign intervention’We have just heard from the European Commission, confirming that the EU and the US have now agreed on the much-awaited “joint statement” advancing the political commitments on trade agreed by Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump in Scotland last month.The commission’s press release says the statement “lays out in detail the new US tariff regime towards the EU, with a clear maximum, all-inclusive, tariff rate of 15% for the vast majority of EU exports, including strategic sectors such as cars, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and lumber.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump needs to understand what the war in Ukraine is really about | Kenneth Roth

It’s not about Nato or the Soviet Union. It’s about democracyIt may be difficult for a real-estate mogul like Donald Trump to recognize, but Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is not about slices of war-torn land in eastern Ukraine. It is about Ukraine’s democracy. Putin fears that the Russian people will see that democracy as an enticing alternative to his stultifying autocratic rule. Trump is unlikely to secure a peace deal unless he acts on that reality and changes the cost-benefit analysis behind Putin’s continuing war.Much of the public analysis of the Alaska summit between Trump and Putin, and the Washington collection of European leaders protecting the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, from the temperamental Trump, has been replete with red-herring issues. For example, Putin did not invade Ukraine because of feared Nato expansion. The unanimous consent of all Nato members required to admit Ukraine is nowhere on the horizon, especially since article 5 of the Nato tre...

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2 w. ago Trump touts his peace deal between ‘Aberbaijan and Albania’ – getting both countries’ names wrong

‘Er Albania, I mean [...],’ President Trump said, while referring to the decades-long conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan

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2 w. ago Vance says it’s up to Europe to provide Ukraine security guarantees with Pentagon confirming U.S. involvement will be ‘minimal’

Vice President says it will up to neighbor states to provide ‘lion’s share’ of peacekeeping support to Kyiv if peace deal with Russia can be agreed

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2 w. ago Parents of kids swept away in Texas floods beg lawmakers to protect future campers

Parents of the 27 campers and counselors killed when floodwaters rushed through a girl's summer camp in the Texas Hill Country pleaded with lawmakers Wednesday to pass a bill that would boost camp safety

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