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Progress has been made in negotiations with Russia in Abu Dhabi, which is why Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is ready to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. He wants to discuss with him disputed territorial issues and the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. In an interview with the Yevropeyskaya Pravda newspaper,...

U.S. President Donald Trump publicly questioned Canada's sovereignty after his inauguration last year . According to Trump, Canada should become the 51st US state in its own interest. He vividly described what the people there could get in return: "Much lower taxes and much better military protection for the people of Canada. And no tariffs."

The escalation of the crisis in transatlantic relations over Greenland has been averted, and uncertainty about the further development of relations between Europe and the United States under the leadership of Donald Trump remains. Trust is broken, and more crises may follow. Some European leaders have said that NATO will pass through them every six...

A mass rebellion against the theocratic religious regime is taking place on the streets of Iranian cities. The reason for this is mainly dissatisfaction with the deteriorating economic situation in the country and the way its leaders are governed.

US President Donald Trump's ambition to end the war in Ukraine with a peace agreement this year will remain unfulfilled. Sunday's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Trump's Florida residence Mar-a-Lago did not bring a breakthrough either.

Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said that the European Union must find other ways to finance Ukraine than a reparation loan secured by frozen Russian assets or a Union loan guaranteed by individual member states. He thus set out the Czech position before the European Council meeting on Thursday. Petr Fiala called Babiš's actions selfish and threatening...

The U.S. National Security Strategy, which every U.S. president publishes in his first year in office, defines the key security priorities of the presidential administration. Donald Trump did the same and shocked Europe.

The five-hour meeting between US President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin was another chapter in a frantic diplomatic effort to end the war in Ukraine. Without a major breakthrough.

The G20 summit of the world's strongest economies was supposed to deal with the issue of easing the debt burden of developing countries, the global energy transition and global food security in Johannesburg, South Africa, over the weekend.

Last week, the traditional November forecast of the British weekly The Economist on the key trends of global development in the coming year was published. It followed a forecast from last year, which predicted that US President Donald Trump would be the most affected by 2025.