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View all search resultsTrump has been vague about his expectations for the Alaska summit with Putin on Friday, describing it as a "feel-out meeting" to gauge the Russian leader's ideas for ending the war in Ukraine.
13 hours agoTalks on sealing a landmark treaty to tackle the global scourge of plastic pollution were still stuck in second gear on Monday, with time running out to bridge the chasm between the most ambitious countries and oil-producing states. ...
16 hours agoTwo warships that are part of the UK Carrier Strike Group HMS Prince of Wales visited Jakarta in late June. ...
1 day ago"To our Russian colleagues: Ukraine is not your country. Its grain is not your grain. Why are you blocking the ports? You should let the grain out," said Blinken, according to a Western official present.
3 years agoDiplomats said Lavrov later also left an afternoon session before a virtual appearance by Ukraine's foreign minister and was not present as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned Russia in the closed-door meeting in Bali.
3 years ago"During the discussion, Western partners avoided following the mandate of the G20, from dealing with issues of the world economy," Lavrov said.
3 years agoHis remarks came as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov prepared for a closed-door foreign ministers' meeting at a G20 gathering in Indonesia on Friday - the first time Putin's top diplomat will come face-to-face with the most vocal opponents of the invasion of Ukraine since it began in February.
3 years agoJohnson was expected to announce his resignation after he was abandoned by ministers and his Conservative Party's lawmakers who said he was no longer fit to govern. The Kremlin said it too was no fan of the British leader, whose parents named him Boris after a White Russian emigre.
3 years agoBut the luck of a man once likened to a "greased piglet" for his ability to escape controversies finally ran out, after a slew of high-profile resignations from his scandal-hit government.
3 years ago"We must continue to serve our country ... It is our duty now to make sure the people of this country have a functioning government. This is true now more than ever." Ellis, a minister in the Cabinet Office department which oversees the running of government, said, quoted by Reuters.
3 years agoRussia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine has triggered the most serious crisis in relations between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when many people feared the world was on the brink of nuclear war.
3 years ago"It is in the interest of us all to ensure that international law is respected and adhered to. That is the common denominator," said Baerbock in a statement on Wednesday.
3 years agoSunak, 42, had been on a meteoric trajectory to power that could have made him Britain's first Hindu prime minister.
3 years ago"This is a good day for Finland and Sweden and a good day for NATO," Stoltenberg told reporters in a joint press statement with the Swedish and Finnish foreign ministers.
3 years agoBaerbock will attend the G20 meeting on Thursday and Friday, said the ministry spokesperson. Lavrov is expected to attend.
3 years agoJust one-and-a-half months after the last reshuffle, the foreign, finance and defence ministers remained unchanged but Macron made several key changes to other high-profile positions.
3 years agoThe Ukrainian withdrawal followed weeks of fierce fighting and marked a decisive breakthrough for Moscow's forces more than four months after their invasion and after turning their focus away from the capital Kyiv.
3 years agoMaking the first ever visit to Ukraine by an Australian premier, Albanese said at a news conference in Kyiv that his country would give Ukraine "a hundred million dollars of military support", without specifying if he meant Australian dollars.
3 years agoThe young man, who according to witnesses was armed with a large rifle, was arrested peacefully shortly after police arrived at the large Fields shopping mall, located between the city centre and Copenhagen airport.
3 years agoNorwegian police said they arrested two people, including the driver of a car accused of deliberately ramming the SUV of Lars Thorsen, leader of the radical group "Stop the Islamisation of Norway" (Sian).
3 years agoPresident Jokowi, who is the G20 president this year, was speaking at a news conference alongside his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin after a bilateral meeting in Moscow on Thursday.
3 years agoThe Commerce Department added five companies in China to a trade blacklist on Tuesday for allegedly supporting Russia's military and defense industrial base as Moscow carries out its war in Ukraine.
3 years agoIndonesia holds the rotating presidency of the G20 and Jakarta has come under Western pressure to exclude Russia's president from the gathering despite announcing in April that he had been invited.
3 years ago"The number of dead in the apartment building missile strike has risen to 10," said Odessa military administration spokesman Sergei Bratchuk.
3 years agoPutin hosted Jokowi more than four months into Moscow's offensive in Ukraine, as Russia seeks to pivot toward Asia and Africa following the onset of unprecedented Western sanctions.
3 years ago"As far as an iron curtain is concerned, essentially it is already descending," Lavrov told reporters.
3 years ago"We do not prevent the export of Ukrainian grain. The Ukrainian military has mined the approaches to their ports, no one prevents them from clearing those mines and we guarantee the safety of shipping grain out of there," Putin said, speaking alongside visiting Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.
3 years agoJokowi, who is the current G20 president, was speaking at a news conference alongside Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin after a bilateral meeting in Moscow.
3 years ago"With Sweden and Finland, we don't have the problems that we have with Ukraine. They want to join NATO, go ahead," Putin told Russian state television after talks with regional leaders in the central Asian ex-Soviet state of Turkmenistan.
3 years agoUkrainian authorities said they were trying to evacuate residents from the frontline eastern city of Lysychansk, the focus of Russia's attacks where about 15,000 people remained under relentless shelling.
3 years agoIt was not immediately clear how Zelensky responded to the offer made by Jokowi during talks in Kyiv or whether the Ukrainian leader had any message he wished to send to Putin.
3 years ago"Certainly I accept the invitation. Ukraine's participation will depend on the security situation in the country and on the composition of the summit's participants," Zelensky said following their talks in Kyiv, in an apparent reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin's attendance.
3 years agoIndonesia holds the rotating presidency of the G20 this year and Jakarta has come under Western pressure to exclude Russia's president from the gathering after announcing in April he had been invited.
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