•Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called today for an “immediate, full, and unconditional ceasefire”, hours after a Russian drone strike on a bus killed nine and as his top aide met Kyiv’s allies in London. Images published by Dnipropetrovsk Governor Sergi...
•US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin A meeting between Russian and US officials on a partial ceasefire in Ukraine ended after 12 hours of negotiations in Saudi Arabia yesterday, Russian state media reported, with a joint statement expected today. With Ukrainian negotiators waiting nearby, a day after they sat down wi...
•Putin, Trump and Zelensky Vladimir Putin agreed in a call with Donald Trump yesterday to halt attacks against Ukrainian energy targets but would not accept an immediate full ceasefire and insisted that the West halt all military aid for Kyiv. The US and Russian leaders spoke for more than an hour and a half and […]
•Russian President Vladimir Putin and American President Donald Trump A phone call between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin over a potential ceasefire in Ukraine has started and is going “well,” the White House said today. The call began at 1400 GMT and so far had continued almost an hour, deputy chief of […]...
•Donald Trump US President-elect Donald Trump said yesterday the ceasefire and hostage release agreement between Israel and Hamas would have never been reached without pressure from him and his incoming administration. The agreement, which would exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, awaits approval by Israel’s security cabinet b...
•Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant Israel’s security cabinet is set to meet today after final details of a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal were ironed out, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, with the United States “confident” the truce would begin as planned this weekend. If a...
•Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would bring a US-brokered proposal for a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon to his government for approval as soon as yesterday evening. In a televised address, Netanyahu said he would put “a ceasefire outline” to ministers “this evening”. He did not say how long...
•Donald Trump A senior Hamas official said today that the group is “ready for a ceasefire” in Gaza and requested US President-elect Donald Trump to pressure Israel to end the war. “Hamas is ready to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire proposal is presented and on the condition that it is […]
•Site of a previous Israeli air strike on a village in Lebanon yesterday The Israeli military launched strikes in southern Beirut today, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, saying it would leave Hezbollah forces near his country’s border. Our correspondent saw black smoke rising from Beirut’s Har...
•Smoke as Israel bombards Lebanese village of Maroun El Ras today Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati today called for a ceasefire in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah during a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot in Beirut. “The key to the solution is to put an end to the Israeli aggression against Lebanon […...

