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Russia moves to withdraw from plutonium agreement with the United States

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Russia moves to withdraw from plutonium agreement with the United States

Russian President Vladimir Putin. File | Photo Credit: AP Russia’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday (October 8, 2025) approved a move to withdraw from a landmark agreement with the United States aimed at reducing vast stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium left over from thousands of Cold War nuclear warheads. The Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement…

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U.S. President Trump says his patience with Putin is running out

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U.S. President Trump says his patience with Putin is running out

U.S. President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday (September 12, 2025) said his patience with Russian President Vladimir Putin was running out, but stopped short of threatening new sanctions over the Ukraine war. Asked if his patience with Mr. Putin had run out, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah. It’s…

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Western troops in Ukraine would be legitimate targets, says Vladimir Putin

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Western troops in Ukraine would be legitimate targets, says Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin | Photo Credit: AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday (September 5, 2025) said that any Western troops deployed to Ukraine would be legitimate targets for Moscow to attack. Mr. Putin was speaking a day after French President Emmanuel Macron said 26 countries had pledged to provide postwar security guarantees to…

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Putin offers to meet Zelenskyy in Moscow; Ukraine says no

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Putin offers to meet Zelenskyy in Moscow; Ukraine says no

Putin said he had always been open to meeting Mr. Zelenskyy but reiterated the Kremlin’s oft-repeated stance that such a meeting had to be well prepared in advance and lead to tangible results. File. | Photo Credit: AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday (September 3, 2025) that he was ready to hold talks…

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Peter Navarro slams Modi’s SCO ties with Xi, Putin; terms them ‘troublesome’

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Peter Navarro slams Modi’s SCO ties with Xi, Putin; terms them ‘troublesome’

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro. File | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump’s top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, has described as “troublesome” the show of unity between the leaders of India, Russia and China, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi needs to be with Washington, Europe and Ukraine, not with Russia. Mr. Navarro’s remarks came after…

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U.S. envoy says Putin agreed to security protections for Ukraine as part of Trump summit

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U.S. envoy says Putin agreed to security protections for Ukraine as part of Trump summit

U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Russia, Steve Witkoff. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday (August 17, 2025) that Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump to allow the U.S. and European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defence…

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Putin Is The “Dictator”, Says Top EU Diplomat After Trump’s Attack On Zelenksy

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Putin Is The “Dictator”, Says Top EU Diplomat After Trump’s Attack On Zelenksy

Johannesburg: The EU’s top diplomat said Thursday she had initially thought US President Donald Trump had confused Volodymyr Zelensky with Vladimir Putin when he called the Ukrainian leader a “dictator”. “First when I heard this, I was like, oh, he must be mixing the two, because clearly Putin is the dictator,” Kaja Kallas told reporters…

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France’s Macron Says Will Tell Trump He Cannot “Be Weak” With Putin

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France’s Macron Says Will Tell Trump He Cannot “Be Weak” With Putin

Paris: President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that France was entering a “new era” and that he planned to tell US President Donald Trump he could not “be weak” with Vladimir Putin. Macron spoke to the French ahead of a planned visit to the White House to meet Trump next week, as Europe scrambles to respond…

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Zelensky Says World Faces Choice To Be “With Putin Or With Peace”

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Zelensky Says World Faces Choice To Be “With Putin Or With Peace”

Kyiv: President Volodymyr Zelensky said he will meet US envoy Keith Kellogg on Thursday and that he hopes for “constructive” work with the US, after Donald Trump lashed out against the Ukrainian leader on social media. Zelensky addressed Ukrainians late Wednesday in his daily evening video, hours after Trump criticised him on social media, calling…

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