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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff greet each other before their talks in St. Petersburg, Russia, overnight.

Trump envoy proposes dividing Ukraine like Berlin after World War II

Donald Trump’s two foreign envoys, General Keith Kellogg and Steve Witkoff, propose ceasefire conditions more appealing to Vladimir Putin.

  • Benedict Smith and Verity Bowman

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Ksenia Karelina has dual US-Russian citizenship.

US-Russian dual national Ksenia Karelina released in prisoner swap between Moscow and Washington

Imprisoned in Russia on treason charges, she was freed on Thursday, the woman’s lawyer and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky posted footage on X showing what he said was one of two Chinese citizens captured by the Ukraine army.

Chinese men captured fighting for Russia in Ukraine, Zelensky says

Beijing is a close diplomatic ally of Moscow but is not publicly known to have directly aided in the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion and Zelensky did not say whether Ukraine believed the men were acting on Beijing’s orders.

  • Yuliia Dysa and Dan Peleschuk
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‘They just want to destroy us’: Anguish, anger as Ukraine buries children killed in Russian strike

A little girl was playing on a swing with her cousin when Russia launched a missile from 400 kilometres away. It reached her within minutes.

  • Lizzie Johnson and Serhii Korolchuk
Flowers and toys left on a swing seat to commemorate victims killed in Russia’s missile attack on a children play area in Kryvyi Rih.

Russia says it hit a group of military personnel. The UN says they were beauticians

The strike on Volodymyr Zelensky’s home town was the deadliest for children so far. Some victims were found in a playground.

  • Andrew E. Kramer
Donald Trump lovingly cuddled a big poster detailing the tariff vengeance he was about to unleash.

Trump says everyone’s gotta pay – so why doesn’t Putin?

Donald Trump, ignoring the hopes of the world, perfectly fits Oscar Wilde’s definition of a cynic.

  • Tony Wright
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Russian Emergency Ministry employees leave one of two planes that landed in Myanmar following Friday’s earthquake.

China and Russia already have boots on the ground in Myanmar. The US is nowhere to be seen

The United States, the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has so far sent nothing to the earthquake disaster zone.

  • Hannah Beech and Edward Wong
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump ‘very angry’ with Putin, threatens secondary tariffs on Russian oil

The US president’s comments suggest he is growing frustrated with his inability to strike a quick peace deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, which he promised in the election campaign.

  • Michael Koziol
US Vice President J.D. Vance speaks at the US military’s Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Friday.

Vance attacks Denmark in ‘aggressive’ visit to Greenland

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the US should take over Greenland and has not ruled out the possibility of using military force to do so.

  • Benedict Smith
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speak to the media in Paris, France.

Russia wants crippling sanctions ditched for Ukraine ceasefire. Europe has other ideas

Speaking in Paris at the so-called Coalition of the Willing summit, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer accused Vladimir Putin of “playing games and playing for time”.

  • Rob Harris

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