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Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Kyiv for talks with Zelensky after Putin meeting - report - i24NEWS
"We are all on the same side. We all want the war to end," Zelensky said following the conclusion of the first round of negotiations

Ukraine will hold elections if Russia agrees to 60-day ceasefire, Zelensky says
Trump criticized Zelensky for attacking Russian oil refineries after the U.S. temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian fuel

U.S. official: Trump cut deal with Putin after Zelensky ignored his requests
Zelensky "misread the room," the official said.

Ukrainians protest Zelenskyy’s ouster of his popular defense minister
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shook up his wartime government, drawing thousands into the streets across Ukraine to protest the dismissal of his youthful defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham meets President Zelenskyy
Keir Starmer to stand down as MP to focus on world affairs
Former PM says it is right time to go, which will trigger byelection that Greens’ Zack Polanski could target

There's one massive problem with Trump's Ukraine diesel price theory
U.S. President Donald Trump has a very simple solution to the very real problem of rising diesel prices. "(President Volodymyr) Zelensky has to do one thing — he has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” he told reporters on Sept. 13. "Let him go after targets but not diesel fuel, because he’s causing a shortage of diesel fuel… that’s hurting the world." Trump's implication was clear — halting Ukraine's long-running, long-range drone strike campaign against Russian oil refineries would
A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them
Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans to invade, and why most of Europe – including the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy – dismissed them

Exclusive: Ukraine, Russia are done with Steve Witkoff. Trump sees no problem
Kyiv and Moscow are growing increasingly frustrated with the U.S.-mediated peace process — and with Washington's Envoy Steve Witkoff, people familiar with the matter told the Kyiv Independent. Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who has emerged as a key peace negotiator, traveled to Russia and Ukraine in early September in an attempt to restart stalled negotiations. They left both countries with little to show for the effort. Behind the scenes, however, several separate efforts are

Trump Said No on the Record. Iran Didn't Wait for a Yes — It Went to Riyadh Instead.
In yesterday's piece I flagged a WSJ report, sourced to unnamed US officials, that Trump had privately rejected Iran's seven-day Hormuz plan. I called it what...

Al-Zaidi sets June 2027 deadline for militia disarmament under phased plan
Al-Zaidi tells UNGA weapons must stay in constitutional hands, meets Trump and Erdogan in New York, secures Türkiye's gradual Bashiqa handover, agrees on ending PKK presence in Sinjar, as Rubio warns Iraq risks Balkanization without militia disarmament

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Arizona’s Democratic Governor Set to Pick a Republican Running Mate
Gov. Katie Hobbs, locked in a competitive re-election battle, plans to tap a moderate former mayor of Mesa, Ariz., John Giles, to serve as her lieutenant governor if she wins in November.

K navržení Milana Hulmáka prezidentem republiky na soudce Ústavního soudu – Pavel Fischer
Projev senátora Pavla Fischera na 21. schůzi Senátu dne 24. ledna 2024 k Žádosti prezidenta republiky o vyslovení souhlasu Senátu Parlamentu České republiky s jmenováním soudce Ústavního soudu (Doc. JUDr. Milan Hulmák, Ph.D.) videozáznam vystoupení Pavla Fischera stenozáznam schůze senátní tisk č. 196 Vážený pane předsedo, vážený pane prezidente, dámy a pánové, děkujeme panu prezidentovi, že přišel. Opravdu si toho vážíme, je to pro nás velmi důležité. Oceňuji, že pan prezident navrhl kandidáta, který jako své východisko uvádí na prvním místě jedince a jeho zájmy, tedy občana, a teprve až potom společnost nebo stát. Posuzujeme dnes kandidáta s mnoha dobrými předpoklady, a za to děkuji. Nicméně je tady několik nezodpovězených […]
