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U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters he planned to speak with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, as he seeks the Russian president’s agreement on a proposal to end the full-scale invasion launched by Moscow in February 2022. “A lot of work’s been done over the weekend,” Trump said aboard Air Force One on Sunday evening. “We want to see if we can bring that war to an end. Maybe we can, maybe we can’t, but I think we have a very good chance.” His comments came after Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, traveled to Moscow to negotiate directly with Putin last week. Ukraine had…

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At present, the top official said, it is “premature to talk about what exact sanctions lifting should be part of any deals. We just want at this moment to make sure that first Russia makes significant steps in that direction, then any discussion about the lifting of sanctions emerges.” “We’ve seen already that the Russians are trying to ask some questions [about] if those sanctions should be lifted, at least some of them, which gives us better understanding of what sanctions are most painful,” Vlasiuk went on. “It’s always good to know what is the most painful, and we have…

“We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home,” Glucksmann added, according to local media. The French MEPs comments are likely in reference to a decision by Washington to pause aid to Ukraine, which it had been helping to fight off a Russian invasion. While aid is now flowing to Kyiv once again, U.S. President Donald Trump’s perceived softness on Russia, his long-documented admiration for President Vladimir Putin and other strongman leaders, and his public humiliation of Ukrainian Prime Minister Voldymyr Zelenskyy have caused alarm throughout Europe.…

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have launched 18 ballistic and cruise missiles and drones on the US aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman in a retaliatory attack. A Houthi military spokesman said that they will not hesitate to target all American warships in the Red Sea and in the Arabian Sea. The Houthis announced that they launched 18 ballistic and cruise missiles, along with a drone, targeting the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and its accompanying warships in the northern Red Sea on Sunday. Houthi military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree stated that the attack was a response to…

In response, the European Commission on Wednesday said it would reimpose tariffs on iconic American products such as Harley-Davidson motorcycles, jeans and bourbon. Trump’s response arrived quickly as, the following day, he threatened to slap a 200 percent tariff on all “wines, champagne and alcoholic products” from France and other EU countries. Bayrou suggested that the Commission was wrong in choosing the products on its retaliation list. The European Commission “reused a very old list without re-reading it, as it should have done,” Bayrou said.  His comments seem to imply that Trump threatened to hit the EU’s alcohol sector because Brussels…

In 2023, Macron passed a controversial pensions reform that raised the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 and was aimed at making France’s pensions system economically sustainable. The reform has been strongly opposed by both left-wing and right-wing opposition groups. In a bid to convince left-wing lawmakers not to bring down his government, Bayrou earlier this year promised to review the controversial reform, and didn’t rule out changing the retirement age. “It is my conviction that we can seek a new reform path, without totems or taboos, even on the age of retirement,”  Bayrou said back in January. His…

“Those who buy Patriot should be offered the new-generation Franco-Italian SAMP/T. Those who buy the F-35, should be offered the Rafale. That’s the way to increase the rate of production,” he said. Macron’s comments come as European NATO members have become even more dependent on U.S. weapons than ever before. This month, the Netherlands and Belgium confirmed they would still buy American-made F-35 fighter jets, while Portugal is wobbling about replacing its U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets with more modern F-35s because of “the recent position of the United States, in the context of NATO.” Macron said he has asked French…

“At this moment, the most important thing is to determine all the facts and what happened,” Toskovski said, expressing condolences to the families of the victims, who were mainly young people. Family members gathered in front of hospitals and Kocani’s city offices begging authorities for more information. Some 1,500 people attended the performance by ADN, a well-known hip-hop duo in North Macedonia. Following the tragedy, North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski cancelled a trip to Montenegro where he was to attend a European People’s Party meeting.

Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts. Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts. The four newcomers — representing the U.S., Japan and Russia — will spend the next few days learning the station’s ins and outs from Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. Then the two will strap into their own SpaceX capsule later this week, one that has…