Pope Leo XIV invites Ukraine and Russia to peace talks at the Vatican, emphasising the need for dialogue and mediation.- ...

ISTANBUL: Delegations from Moscow and Kyiv are in Istanbul on Friday (May 16), where they plan to hold their first direct ...

Russia’s president slow rolled negotiators and failed to attend talks. But his gamble met little US resistance ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the outcome of direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks, Israeli airstrikes ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — The first direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks since the early weeks of Moscow’s 2022 invasion ended ...

President Donald Trump is on the fourth and final day of his Middle East trip. Today, the president plans to tour an interfaith site in Abu Dhabi before returning to Washington. Trump said yesterday ...

Key European leaders sought Friday to project a united front with US President Donald Trump on ending the war in Ukraine, ...

Russia and Ukraine agreed on a large-scale prisoner exchange, said they would trade ideas on a possible ceasefire and discussed a potential meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin in ...

The Prime Minister said he and European allies spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump on Friday to begin “closely aligning” a response to Russia’s “unacceptable” position in ...

During the negotiations in Istanbul, the Russian delegation put forward a number of unacceptable demands that do not align ...

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky held a phone call with US President Donald Trump Friday after talks between Moscow and Kyiv ...

As of May 13, 2025, Russian forces occupied 112,757 square kilometers (43,536 square miles), which constituted 18.7% of the Ukrainian territory and which is roughly equivalent to the state of Virginia ...