The United States and Russia began a new set of talks aimed at a partial Ukraine ceasefire Monday — even as the two sides disagreed over how well the talks in Saudi Arabia were going and after another night of […]
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Faceoffs and power plays aren’t just hockey terms — they’re the language of international diplomacy. This week Russian President Vladimir Putin revived the Cold War tradition of taking geopolitics onto the ice, suggesting in a call to President Donald Trump
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LONDON — From Las Vegas to Frankfurt to Dubai, hundreds of thousands of stranded passengers waited for news about flights to and from London’s Heathrow Airport after it was closed by a massive fire at a nearby electricity substation. As
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Israel ordered its troops to permanently seize parts of the Gaza Strip — to be “annexed to Israel” — unless Hamas hands over the remaining hostages, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Friday. The statement came after Israel this week
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He is expected to give a press conference with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a key ally, later Thursday. American and Russian officials have this week been talking behind the scenes. And President Donald Trump has dispatched his envoy Steve Witkoff
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has so far offered zero concessions to end the war, nor has he been asked for any by President Donald Trump. Washington, meanwhile, has suggested Ukraine will have to surrender swathes of territory to Russia, while
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Ukrainian officials had yet to respond to NBC News requests for comment on the Moscow strikes. Several airports,, including Sheremetyevo, imposed flight restrictions in the hours after the attack, with Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova pointing out that the
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Russia launched another attack Thursday night on Ukraine’s civilian power grid, officials in Kyiv said, with 250 missiles and drones injuring 10 people, causing widespread outages and prompting the government to urge people to ration their energy consumption. Washington’s NATO
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LONDON — Even before the extraordinary Oval Office bust-up between presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, relations between Washington and Europe were fraying dramatically. Now — after Friday’s diplomatic implosion between Trump, Zelenskyy and Vice President JD Vance — it’s
A deal giving the United States access to Ukraine’s critical and rare-earth minerals is “at the 99 yard line with one inch to go,” a senior administration official engaged in the negotiations told NBC News. According to reports in the
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