The US president in a meeting with high-tech business executives where he announced that American forces had seized a tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
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America’s new vision of its place in the world has left its European allies wondering whether Nato can survive in its current form.
‘All for one and one for all’: unfortunately for Ukraine and the coalition of the willing, Trump’s America is not part of this calculation.
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Does Putin actually want to end the war in Ukraine?
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with U.S. representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner (both not pictured) on Dec. 2, 2025.
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Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham and Argyro Kartsonaki, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg
What today’s diplomats can learn from the Dayton accords.
A mural on the wall of a Kyiv apartment building depicts Saint Javelin, an internet meme and fictional character, cradling the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank weapon that the Ukrainian army used against Russian troops, in February 2024. Saint Javelin was born as a meme and became a symbol of resistance against Russia.
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Ukrainian memes are a testament to Ukraine’s ongoing resistance to Russia and a powerful force in contemporary Ukrainian nationalism
Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenska commemorating victims of the Holodomor, the Russian-imposed famine which devastated Ukraine in the 1930s.
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In 1994 Russia and Kyivs western allies signed the Budapest Memorandum guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty. It wasn’t worth the paper it was written on.
Vladimir Putin’s demands are unacceptable to Ukraine.
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The plan proposed by the US and Russia appeared to reflect Vladimir Putin’s original war aims.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, center, with U.S. delegation members faces the Ukrainian delegation during discussions in Geneva on Nov. 23, 2025, on a plan to end the war in Ukraine.
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In a war that’s lasted almost four years, a former diplomat says it’s not realistic to say, ‘In the next week, come up with a very complicated peace deal, sign off on it and it’s going to stick.’
Ukrainian servicemen in the frontline city of Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on November 16.
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The latest corruption scandal is a huge blow for Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Under pressure on many fronts: Volodymyr Zelensky with the chief of Ukraine’s foreign intelligence service Oleh Ivashchenko, November 12.
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Operation Midas, a Ukrainian anti-corruption probe, has uncovered what appears to be damning evidence against some of the Ukrainian president’s close allies.
Kyiv: October 26 2025 and the aftermath of another Russian drone bombardment.
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