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 […]
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 […]
US President Donald Trump, center, shakes hands with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, right, and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev (Image credits: AP) US President Donald Trump announced a historic peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia at the White House on Friday. The leaders of the two nations signed an agreement aimed at ending decades of […]
Marco Rubio to meet Sergey Lavrov in Malaysia amid rising Russia-Ukraine war US secretary of state Marco Rubio is set to meet Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday in Malaysia, on the sidelines of the Asean Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, as tensions between Washington and Moscow deepen over the conflict in Ukraine. Marco Rubio has […]
China’s Xi Jinping to skip for first time in 12 years Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend the upcoming Brics Summit in Brazil, marking the first time in 12 years that the Chinese leader will be absent from the annual gathering of major emerging economies. The two-day summit, taking place in Rio de Janeiro […]
Pete Hegseth, center, and Marco Rubio, right, laugh as a reporter asked if Nato secretary general Mark Rutte called US President Donald Trump “daddy” during a news conference at the 2025 Nato Summit in The Hague, Netherlands. (NYT News Service) The White House on Thursday joined the buzz around US PresidentDonald Trump’s latest “Daddy” nickname […]
THE HAGUE: Nato secretary general Mark Rutte was upbeat that the military organisation will agree on massive spending hikes at a “transformational summit” on Wednesday, as member state leaders including US president Donald Trump assembled in the Netherlands. Leaders of the 32-nation alliance are expected to agree a new defense spending target of 5% of […]
Nato chief Mark Rutte (left) and US President Donald Trump (AP) US President Donald Trump has released a series of messages from Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte, commending his strikes on Iran and his efforts to push allies to boost defense spending.He posted a screenshot of Rutte’s messages on his social media platform, Truth Social, on […]
Nato leaders gather Tuesday for what could be a historic summit, or one marred by divisions (Image: AP) THE HAGUE: US President Donald Trump and his Nato counterparts are due to gather Tuesday for a summit that could unite the world’s biggest security organization around a new defence spending pledge or widen divisions among the […]
In an unexpected moment of political choreography, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was seen crouching on the floor to retrieve documents spilled by US President Donald Trump during a joint announcement of a new UK-US trade deal at the G7 summit in Canada.The two leaders had just declared the official signing of the much-anticipated […]
