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Trump: US Will “Take a Pass” on Ukraine Talks if Stalemate Persists

This is Beirut, 18/04 20:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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President Donald Trump said Friday the United States will "take a pass" on brokering further Ukraine war talks unless there is quick progress from Moscow and Kyiv. Trump was speaking after Secretary of State Marco Rubio commented -- following talks with European allies - that Washington would "move on" if a truce did not seem "doable" within ...

US Threatens to Withdraw from Ukraine Talks if no Progress

This is Beirut, 18/04 14:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that Washington could soon exit efforts to reach a Ukraine ceasefire if it decided peace was not "doable", after meeting European and Ukrainian officials in Paris. European powers have been seeking a seat at the table since US President Donald Trump's shock decision to open talks with Russia to end ...

Rubio Says US to Decide Within Days if Ukraine Ceasefire 'Doable', Calls on Europe to Act over Iran’s Nuclear program

This is Beirut, 18/04 11:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday said Washington needed to decide soon if an Ukraine truce was feasible, as he left Paris following meetings with European officials. He also said that European countries needed to decide whether to reimpose sanctions on Iran as Tehran was not complying with a nuclear deal. "We need to figure out here ...

Zelensky Claims China Is Supplying Weapons to Russia

This is Beirut, 17/04 20:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that he had "information" China was supplying weapons to Russia, amid an escalating row between Kyiv and Beijing over China's support for Moscow. Zelensky said last Wednesday that Kyiv knew of at least 155 Chinese nationals deployed to assist Moscow's invasion, a day after claiming the ...

Russia Removes Taliban From Terrorist List in Bid to Boost Ties With Afghanistan

This is Beirut, 17/04 16:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday removed the Taliban's designation as a "terrorist organization," a symbolic gesture aimed at building friendly ties with Afghanistan's de facto rulers. The Islamist group seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021, when American forces supporting the country's internationally recognized government pulled ...

Kremlin Refuses to Say If Halt on Ukraine Energy Strikes Would be Extended

This is Beirut, 16/04 17:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The Kremlin on Wednesday declined to specify when a 30-day moratorium on strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure would end -- or whether it would be extended -- just hours before the agreement was set to expire. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on March 18 he had ordered his army to halt attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure for 30 ...

Trump envoy suggests allied zones of control in Ukraine

This is Beirut, 12/04 10:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Keith Kellogg, US President Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, suggested British and French troops could adopt zones of control in the country, in an interview with The Times newspaper published Saturday. Kellogg suggested they could have areas of responsibility west of the Dnipro River, as part of a "reassurance force", with a ...

Trump Envoy Witkoff in Russia on Third Visit

This is Beirut, 11/04 16:42 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet US envoy Steve Witkoff on Friday for talks on the Ukraine conflict, the Kremlin said, cautioning they were unlikely to reach a breakthrough. US President Donald Trump is pressing Moscow and Kyiv to end the more than three-year conflict but has failed to extract any major concessions from the Kremlin ...

Zelensky Says Russia Dragging Beijing Into War by Recruiting Chinese Fighters

This is Beirut, 09/04 22:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday said Russia was "dragging" China into the war in Ukraine, as he accused Beijing of knowing that dozens of its citizens were being recruited by Moscow's army to fight. Zelensky -- whose war leadership has hit turbulence with Donald Trump in the White House -- also said that Kyiv was ready to buy up to $50 ...

Russian Attacks Wound 21 Overnight, Ukraine Says

This is Beirut, 09/04 10:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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At least 21 Ukrainians were wounded during Russian attacks across the country overnight, regional officials said on Wednesday, as Moscow stepped up its aerial bombardment despite US efforts to secure a ceasefire. The worst attack left 15 people wounded in the central Ukrainian industrial region of Dnipropetrovsk, the governor Sergiy Lysak wrote ...

US and Russia to Meet Thursday in Istanbul on Restoring Embassy Operations

This is Beirut, 08/04 23:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The United States and Russia will hold talks on Thursday in Istanbul on restoring some of their embassy operations that have been drastically scaled back following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, the US State Department said. The talks, the second of their kind, come after President Donald Trump reached out to Russia following the start of his ...

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