55 m. ago Starmer meeting Trump for White House talks on Ukraine, trade and technology

The Prime Minister is prepared to commit British troops to a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine but is seeking US support.

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70 m. ago Russia wants to join forces with the United States to 'divide Europe to the max'

Vladimir Putin's propogandists have revealed on Russian state TV that they want to work with Donald Trump and the US to break Europe apart and here's how they plan on doing it

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3 h. ago Putin is a ‘vile dictator’ and ‘most evil villain’, says Reform UK’s Tice

The party’s deputy leader also condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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4 h. ago Tory MP says refugees she hosted became her ‘Ukrainian wife and daughter’

Dame Caroline Dinenage said she joined the Homes for Ukraine scheme because she could not ‘stand by and do nothing’.

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4 h. ago Putin wants sovereignty of Ukraine not territory – Tory former minister

Sir Iain Duncan Smith said Donald Trump is making a ‘completely wrong judgement’ if he think he can appease Putin with territory.

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5 h. ago Vladimir Putin orders top spies to use 'all means' against Western leaders

Vladimir Putin is keen to thrash out a peace deal with Donald Trump that would end the war in Ukraine on incredibly favourable terms for Russia without having to give many concessions

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6 h. ago Russian and US diplomats discuss normalizing embassy operations at Istanbul talks

Russian and U.S. diplomats are holding talks in Istanbul on Thursday to discuss ways to normalize the operation of their respective embassies after rounds of diplomats’ expulsions in the past years

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7 h. ago The EU beat COVID and ditched Russian energy. Now it must learn to live without US security help

The European Union is getting good at adapting to unprecedented circumstances

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7 h. ago Aid cut will have ‘devastating impact’ on world’s poorest, church leaders warn

The Prime Minister recently announced the foreign aid budget will be cut in order to fund an increase in defence spending.

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8 h. ago Kim Jong Un 'sends more North Korea troops' to help Vladimir Putin's forces in Ukraine

North Korean despot Kim Jong-Un sends more troops into the 'meat grinder' Russian war on Ukraine - amid fears Moscow will reward him with weapons technology, boosting his nuke programme

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10 h. ago The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot

So much of our intelligence and military systems are shared or reliant on the US – if it becomes the enemy, it is already inside the gatesAll the talk now is of how we might defend ourselves without the US. But almost everyone with a voice in public life appears to be avoiding a much bigger and more troubling question: how we might defend ourselves against the US.As Keir Starmer visits the orange emperor’s court in Washington, let’s first consider the possibilities. I can’t comment on their likelihood, and I fervently hope that people with more knowledge and power than me are gaming them. One is that Donald Trump will not only clear the path for Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, but will actively assist him. We know that Trump can brook no challenge to his hegemony. Russia is no threat to US dominance, but Europe, with a combined economy similar to that of the US, and a powerful diplomatic and global political presence, could be. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Top Democrat says Trump may seek mineral deal with both Russia and Ukraine

Jeanne Shaheen discusses Trump’s demand that Kyiv grant US firms access to rare-earth reserves for helping end warDonald Trump may be pursuing a mineral rights deal with Vladimir Putin and Russia as well as with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine, a top Senate Democrat has warned, discussing the US president’s demand that Kyiv grant US firms access to 50% of its rare-earth reserves, as a price for helping end the war three years after Russia invaded.“I think anything that helps position Ukraine for any peace negotiations is a positive move,” said Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the ranking Democrat on the Senate foreign relations and armed services committee, who recently visited Ukraine. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Russia could reinvade Ukraine without US security guarantees, Starmer warns

UK prime minister faces major diplomatic effort to get president on board after he said no plans for US ‘backstop’Keir Starmer has warned that Vladimir Putin could invade Ukraine again unless the US provides security guarantees as he arrived for critical talks with Donald Trump at the most precarious moment for European stability in decades.With the future of Ukrainian security hanging in the balance, he urged the president to commit a US backstop to a British and French-led peacekeeping force, saying it was the only way to avoid Russia plunging Europe back into war. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Trump says US will not make Ukraine security guarantees ‘beyond very much’ and Kyiv can ‘forget about’ joining Nato – live

Trump also announced Zelenskyy would visit the White House on Friday to sign the mineral deal The Kremlin said on Wednesday that expert level talks between the US and Russia were being prepared. In his daily media briefing Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said there were no current plans for Vladimir Putin and US president Donald Trump to speak directly on the phone.The Kremlin said it declined to comment on any aspect of a proposed US-Ukraine deal allowing the US to extract rare minerals from Ukraine in lieu of payment for military support until there were official statements. Russia’s president on Monday evening offered to sell Russian rare earth minerals to US companies, including minerals from the Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Why Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Farage are 'useful idiots' for Vladimir Putin

The SNP are opposed to nuclear weapons but the UK would be foolish to surrender them at a time when Russia is waging a war of conquest in Ukraine

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25 h. ago Trump says Zelenskyy will sign minerals deal on Friday with US getting ‘our money back’ – Ukraine war live

Trump made the comment during a cabinet meeting at the White House on WednesdayThe Kremlin said on Wednesday that expert level talks between the US and Russia were being prepared. In his daily media briefing Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said there were no current plans for Vladimir Putin and US president Donald Trump to speak directly on the phone.The Kremlin said it declined to comment on any aspect of a proposed US-Ukraine deal allowing the US to extract rare minerals from Ukraine in lieu of payment for military support until there were official statements. Russia’s president on Monday evening offered to sell Russian rare earth minerals to US companies, including minerals from the Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine Continue reading...

Economics

26 h. ago Russia accuses UK and France of ‘heating up’ Ukraine war amid defence push

The accusation comes as the Prime Minister flies to the US to meet Donald Trump after promising a dramatic increase in defence spending.

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26 h. ago Donald Trump humiliated by Russia over peacekeeper deal ahead of new Ukraine talks

US President Donald Trump was today humiliated by Russia after Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rubbished a claim he made about Vladimir Putin and European peacekeepers in Ukraine earlier this week

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26 h. ago Ukraine minerals deal: What are the details and why does Trump want them?

More than 50 per cent of Ukraine’s critical rare earth mineral resources are in regions illegally annexed by Vladimir Putin and partially occupied by his forces

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30 h. ago More than 1,000 British staff cut from key Ukraine troop training programme

Exclusive: As of January, there were just 369 UK staff working on the British-led programme that has trained over 51,000 Ukrainian soldiers to resist Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion

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