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He then escalated on Wednesday, just a day after his negotiating team sat down with senior Russian officials in Saudi Arabia to discuss ending the war and begin cooperation on a range of topics. “A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left,” Trump warned, accusing the Ukraine leader of “talking” the U.S. into spending billions to support its defense.  The Kremlin seemed barely to believe its luck, as Trump was essentially parroting many of Moscow’s talking points about Ukraine. Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council and the country’s…

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Across Ukraine, local politicians were candid in their opinions of Trump’s attacks. “We may like Zelenskyy, or we may not, we may scold him, or we may praise him, we may condemn his actions, or we may applaud them … because he is OUR President,” Borys Filatov, mayor of the industrial city of Dnipro, wrote in a social media post. “No lying creature, neither in Moscow, nor in Washington, nor anywhere, has the right to open his mouth against him,” Filatov added. Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin — whose region is on the front line facing relentless Russian attacks — said the…

The group started taking shape this week in the wake of the Munich Security Conference when French President Emmanuel Macron invited a small number of like-minded countries to Paris on Monday to discuss the implications of Washington’s embrace of Russia over Ukraine. By Wednesday, that initial group — composed of the leaders of France, the United Kingdom, Poland, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark, plus the heads of NATO, the European Commission and Council — had more than doubled, widening to 19 nations including Canada. Non-EU countries such as Norway and Iceland attended as well. As host of Wednesday’s…

The new budget handset, which replaces the older iPhone SE series, comes with the chip needed to use all of Apple’s new artificial intelligence (AI) features. Tech giant Apple unveiled a sleeker, more expensive version of its most affordable iPhone in a launch event in California on Wednesday.The release is being seen as an attempt to widen the audience for a bundle of artificial intelligence (AI) technology that the company has been hoping will revive demand for its most profitable product line-up.The iPhone 16e unveiled on Wednesday is the fourth-generation of a model that’s sold at a dramatically lower price…

The truth is, Trump’s idea of a bad deal may be very different from Europe’s if he’s negotiating on behalf of his version of America — and not in the interests of Ukrainian and European security.  James Nixey, Russia-Eurasia director at the Chatham House think tank in London, said Trump and his team did not appear to be negotiating with Putin from an “oppositional” stance. “The reality is this current crop of Republicans regard Russia and Ukrainians as sort of equal,” he said. “There is a way of dealing with Russia which is not militarily or aggressively and that’s to…

And when, to Ukraine’s relief, Trump began threatening Moscow with the prospect of economic warfare late last month, all seemed to be going according to plan. “We can do it the easy way, or the hard way — and the easy way is always better,” Trump warned in a message addressed directly to Putin on his social media site Truth Social. But now confidence and trust have been shattered, and there’s growing Ukrainian fears that Trump is slipping into bed with Putin — that all the talk of negotiating a peace deal on the basis of Western and Ukrainian strength…

But this would be in Russia’s best interest, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said Wednesday. “Putin doesn’t want elections in Ukraine because he cherishes Ukrainian democracy. He wants elections to weaken Ukraine under the current state of emergency. We must not fall into that trap,” Stenergard told Swedish outlet Aftonbladet on Wednesday. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius also lashed out at the U.S. for barring Ukraine from joining NATO. “The Americans made a mistake,” Pistorius said in an interview with public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, adding that concessions like that weaken negotiating positions against Russia. “The Americans seem to take the…

The 88-year-old pontiff, despite battling pneumonia and a severe bronchial infection, was alert and responsive, Meloni stated on Wednesday. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Pope Francis in hospital on Wednesday, reporting that he was “alert and responsive” despite his ongoing battle with pneumonia and a severe bronchial infection that has kept him hospitalised for nearly a week.Meloni, who described the meeting as warm and lighthearted, said she brought well wishes on behalf of the Italian government and the nation.“We joked around as always. He has not lost his proverbial sense of humour,” her office stated.Her visit marked the first…

“In recent years, we have seen a pulling away from the standards, a willingness to say, ‘if I don’t like the standards, it doesn’t apply to me.’ This would have been unthinkable even 20 years ago,” he said. “Your government might do bad stuff, but it would still make every effort to persuade you that it wasn’t doing the bad stuff. And today it’s as likely that they’ll say, ‘Yes, we’re doing the bad stuff. And that’s because that’s our choice. That’s what we need in this particular moment,’” O’Flaherty said. The commissioner stressed that those characteristics are no longer…