US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that there was not much a Democrat-led House of Representatives could do to stop the Trump administration's agenda.
October 20, 2026US special envoy Steve Witkoff is going to discuss the possible release of American citizen Stephen Hubbard from Russian detention with President Vladimir Putin
October 20, 2026The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it hoped a meeting in Russia between President Vladimir Putin and US special envoy Steve Witkoff could be organised in the near future to
October 20, 2026US President Donald Trump said on Monday he is open to three-way arms-control talks with the leaders of China and Russia as
October 19, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin promoted Finance Minister Anton Siluanov in a surprise cabinet reshuffle on Monday aimed at maintaining macroeconomic
October 19, 2026Ukraine and Russia should be focused on ending the war between them, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on his visit to
October 19, 2026The day after waiving sanctions and tariffs related to Russian exports, US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he has yet to announce a final
October 18, 2026Russia is establishing a "security zone" inside Ukraine along their border, which will be non-negotiable in any future talks with Kyiv, President Vladimir Putin said on
October 16, 2026President Vladimir Putin told Pope Leo he had agreed to cooperate after the pontiff asked him on Friday to help get vital supplies into the Russian-
October 16, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin told Pope Leo in a phone call on Friday that he supported a Vatican initiative to help deliver supplies to civilians in the Russian-
October 16, 2026Russia has publicly acknowledged a Ukrainian drone strike on a major oil refinery this week and broadcast images on state media, breaking with its usual practice in order to
October 16, 2026Russia has seized control of the local assets of four companies from France, Germany, Sweden and Belgium, according to a decree by President Vladimir Putin,
October 16, 2026Drone attacks on cargo ships in the Black Sea this month have raised concerns among NATO members
October 16, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss cybersecurity with top officials on Wednesday, the Kremlin said, describing it as an increasingly pressing issue but denying
October 14, 2026The deal between the United States and Russia over diesel supply is a "very risky choice" that runs counter to efforts to force Vladimir Putin to sit at a
October 14, 2026Trump admin silent as Russia hits American businesses with ‘drones and missiles’ in Ukraine
October 14, 2026Trump suggests Russia and Ukraine did not agree to his ‘energy ceasefire’ before he announced it
October 11, 2026President Donald Trump said on Monday he did not believe that China and Russia were helping Iran "at all," even as US
October 13, 2026Stocks kicked off a busy week with mixed trading on Wall Street that kept the market hovering around its all-time high set last week
October 12, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is still striking Ukraine's energy facilities despite U.S. President Donald Trump's claim of an energy ceasefire
October 12, 2026A deal between Moscow and Washington over exports of Russian diesel and fresh U.S. criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mark important political victories for the Kremlin
October 12, 2026NATO's top commander warned Russia on Monday that his forces would destroy "anything and everything" involved in any attack if
October 12, 2026US threatens to suspend intel sharing, weapons purchases if Ukraine continues Russia energy strikes, sources say
October 12, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday in response to critical comments from US President Donald Trump that he will organize elections in Ukraine if
October 11, 2026Former President Donald Trump says Ukraine needs a new leader, suggesting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hasn't done enough to end the war with Russia
October 10, 2026A conversation on Friday between President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump was "very substantive and friendly" and neither leader wanted to be the first to end the call
October 10, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump on Friday that Kyiv had undermined the possibility of an immediate resumption of trilateral Ukraine peace
October 10, 2026South African judge Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, who was awarded the Nobel peace prize on Friday, has been a judge on several international courts,
October 09, 2026A powerful Russian guided bomb explosion has killed 30 people and wounded at least 18 in eastern Ukraine, according to authorities
October 08, 2026European intelligence services are trying to find out whether secret information was compromised by former German spy chief August Hanning and
October 08, 2026Russian authorities are keeping a tight lid on information about last week’s suspicious death of a lab worker in Siberia that has been surrounded by secrecy and claims that it could have been caused by pneumonic plague
October 07, 2026Russia fired 70 missiles and also drones in one of its biggest strikes at Ukraine, targeting the Ukrainian energy sector and killing at least 11 people across the country,
October 07, 2026North Korea criticised the United States over its arms sales and military support for Taiwan, accusing Washington of fuelling tension in the Taiwan Strait, state
October 07, 2026US President Donald Trump on Monday at the White House told reporters that the United States will help Russia after a laboratory worker died at a plague research
October 06, 2026Ukraine said long-range strikes have put more than half of Russia’s oil refining capacity out of action
October 05, 2026Milorad Dodik has declared victory for his party in Bosnia's election, which was influenced by economic pressures, EU membership prospects, and ethnic tensions
October 04, 2026Ukraine will double down on attacking Russian oil refineries in response to a new policy of airstrikes by Moscow designed to force people to
October 03, 2026Putin warns Russia is prepared to use ‘all weapons,’ including nuclear, to protect Kaliningrad
October 02, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Western companies could get their Russian assets back if "a favourable scenario" came to pass.
October 01, 2026Russia will expel an unspecified number of Hungarian diplomats in a retaliatory move, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, after Budapest last month expelled 10
October 01, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin believes his meeting with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at an APEC summit in China next month will yield results and benefit ties, Russian news
October 01, 2026NATO's Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Wednesday there was no imminent threat to NATO territory from Russia, in response to a warning issued by Moscow over the
September 30, 2026Ihor Malchevsky focused solely on his family as he peered over the edge of his third-floor office window, thick black smoke billowing behind him after a
September 29, 2026Russia's imperialism is the greatest threat to Europe and to question that is irresponsible, Germany's foreign minister said on Tuesday in Slovakia, where the prime minister has
September 29, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin's envoy Kirill Dmitriev held "constructive" talks with US officials on ending the Ukraine war, including possible US-Russia energy
September 29, 2026Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday he had agreed with Russia's Vladimir Putin that Gazprom would take part in a project to build a nitrogen
September 29, 2026This month's victories for far-right and far-left parties in German state elections have intensified official debate over whether security authorities can
September 28, 2026Trump declines to say if Ukraine can manufacture Patriot missiles to fend off Russian attacks
September 26, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that all proposals for a settlement in the 4-1/2-year-old war with Ukraine remained on the table, but Moscow still needed to
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