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Viktor Kovalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (LONDON) — President Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin spoke on Thursday, the White House said, ahead of Trump’s in-person meeting on Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump, in a social media post, called it a “productive” conversation and said he and Putin would eventually meet […]

Israeli hostage Guy Gilboa Dalal returns from Hamas captivity in Gaza. (Photo by Sharon Eilon/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) (LONDON) — President Donald Trump implied Hamas has been given approval to act as a Palestinian police force in Gaza “for a period of time” in the wake of implementing phase one of the ceasefire agreement. […]

Francisco Richart Barbeira/NurPhoto via Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia continued its nightly strikes on Ukraine — including the capital Kyiv — as U.S. President Donald Trump prepared to depart for his state visit to the U.K. on Tuesday, with the White House’s efforts to broker peace between the combatants still stalled. Ukraine’s air force said […]

Andriy Zhyhaylo/Oboz.ua/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (LONDON) — During his visit to the U.K. on Monday, President Donald Trump expressed further frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Moscow’s continued long-range attacks on Ukraine. The president said he would shorten the 50-day window offered to Putin earlier this month in which to agree to […]

Michael Sorrow/Anadolu via Getty Images (BUDAPEST) — President Donald Trump threatened “severe tariffs” against Russia if a ceasefire deal isn’t reached in 50 days over its war in Ukraine. “We’re very, very unhappy with them,” Trump said of Russia during remarks in the Oval Office alongside NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Monday. “Tariffs at about […]

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (LONDON) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday again claimed “total obliteration” of Iran’s nuclear program during the NATO summit in the Netherlands, escalating his pushback on an early Pentagon intelligence report suggesting joint U.S.-Israeli strikes may have set back Iran’s nuclear program back by only a matter of months. “I believe it […]