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‘These people are sick!’: Donald Trump hits back at ‘fake news’ over Alaska Summit criticism; slams senator Chris Murphy

File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump has lashed out at the media and Democrats, rejecting claims that he suffered a setback after hosting Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Alaska summit on 15 August.In a series of posts on Truth Social late Sunday, Trump said: “The Fake News […]

‘Game-changing’: Steve Witkoff lauds Trump for ‘successful’ Putin summit; proposes security guarantees for Ukraine

Middle East Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said the White House has scored important wins during Friday’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, even though President Donald Trump did not get the ceasefire he had pushed for.Witkoff told CNN on Sunday that the most significant outcome was the agreement on security guarantees for Ukraine, […]

Alaska summit done, Zelenskyy next: Ukraine President set for talks with Trump; focus on ending war

Putin, Trump in Alaska (L), and Zelenskyy (R) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday said that Ukraine “reaffirms its readiness to work with maximum efforts to achieve peace.” His statement came after US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine.Zelenskyy made the remarks after […]

Alaska summit: Vladimir Putin says 2020 US elections were not ‘honest’; calls them ‘rigged’

US President Donald Trump said that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, reportedly described the 2020 presidential elections as “rigged” because of mail-in voting.“Vladimir Putin said your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting. He said no country has mail-in voting. It’s impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections,” Trump said in an […]

Live Updates: Trump Flies to Alaska for High-Stakes Summit With Putin

President Trump plans to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Friday in Alaska. The focus of their high-stakes summit will be to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine, which Russia invaded in 2022. Mr. Trump has sought to broker peace in a conflict he once boasted he could resolve in […]

Ukraine-Russia conflict: Zelenskyy arrives in London, meets UK PM Starmer ahead of Trump-Putin’s Alaska summit

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London on Thursday, exchanging a handshake and a warm embrace before heading inside for talks. This high profile meeting comes just a day before a key US-Russia summit in Alaska that could affect the Kyiv-Moscow conflict, as a show of strong support as Ukraine […]

Trump and Putin could decide others’ fates, echoing Yalta summit

The world’s superpowers met in 1945 in the Black Sea port of Yalta to divide up Europe after the defeat of Nazi Germany. They drew lines on the map that tore apart countries, effectively delivered Eastern Europe to Soviet occupation and dismembered Poland. And none of those countries were represented. As President Trump prepares to […]

‘Not as bad as Trump inviting Taliban’: John Bolton on Alaska summit, ‘rogue leader Putin being welcomed into US’

John Bolton said Trump meeting Putin in Alaska next week is not as bad as Trump inviting Taliban, which was however canceled. Former ambassador and President Donald Trump’s former NSA John Bolton said Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin’s proposed summit in Alaska on August 15 is a step toward success for Moscow, not for […]

‘Ukraine should be involved’: Germany’s Merz on Trump-Putin summit; hopes for breakthrough

File: German chancellor Friedrich Merz (AP image) Germany assumes that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky will attend a summit between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin next Friday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Sunday.Putin and Trump will meet in the US state of Alaska on Friday to try to resolve the three-year […]

Trump-Putin summit: Meeting set for next Friday in Alaska; to discuss ending Ukraine war

US President Donald Trump will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next Friday in Alaska to discuss an end to Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.In a post on Truth Social, Trump said, “The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin of Russia will take place next […]