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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday described the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as “one of the suitable” venues for an upcoming meeting with US President Donald Trump. “We have many friends who are ready to help us organize events of this kind. One of our friends is the president of the United Arab Emirates,” Putin told journalists in the Kremlin following a meeting with his Emirati counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who arrived in Moscow on an official visit. “I think we will decide, but this would be one of the suitable, quite suitable locations,” Putin said, expressing...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday said that the US offered Kyiv a new version of a mineral agreement. On Sunday, delegations from Ukraine and the US held consultations in the Saudi capital Riyadh, which Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov described as "productive." The two sides held a second round of talks earlier today after a separate meeting between American and Russian delegations on Monday. Speaking to journalists in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Zelenskyy said that his team informed him about the new agreement proposed by the US, which he described as a “large, comprehensive” deal from the American perspective....

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday hailed Turkiye’s significant efforts to resolve the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has killed more than 36,000 Palestinians since 7 October and left most civilians homeless and at risk of famine, Anadolu Agency reports. “What is happening now in Gaza … does not really look like a war, it is some kind of total destruction of the civilian population,” Putin told the heads of leading global news agencies, including Anadolu, at the Lakhta Centre as part of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). -snip- The real issue, political matters, need...