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Foreign Affairs State of the Union: Witkoff reportedly coached a Russian diplomat on how to negotiate with Trump in upcoming talks. Leaked transcripts from White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff’s call with a top aide to the Russian President Vladimir Putin, published Tuesday by Bloomberg, touched off a massive controversy…

US President Donald Trump has stepped back from his Thanksgiving deadline for a deal in Ukraine, despite his urge to be seen as the peacemaker. It is a key signal the coming denouement of his peace initiative – now a meeting in Moscow between his envoy Steve Witkoff and the…

Eurochild members Voices of Children Charitable Foundation, Ukrainian Network for Children’s Rights and Ukrainian Foundation for Public Health have joined the President of Ukraine’s Bring Kids Back UA initiative to help Ukrainian schools become safe, supportive spaces for children returning from occupied territories or Russia. As of 1 November 2025,…

MOSCOW - Russian forces have surrounded the embattled Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk and control 70 per cent of it, President Vladimir Putin claimed on Nov 27, but Kyiv’s top general said Ukraine was pushing back hard and that fighting was raging in the city centre. Moscow has been trying to…

VARCES, France (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron announced thousands of volunteers aged 18 and 19 will start serving in the military next year as he unveiled a new program meant to bolster France’s armed forces to address growing concerns over Russia’s threat to European nations beyond the war in Ukraine.…

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is seeking a consultancy to conduct a feasibility study for a utility-scale solar plant in Ukraine, with applications due Dec. 23. November 27, 2025 Patrick Jowett Image: Nastia Petruk, Unsplash IRENA has opened a tender searching for a consultant to conduct a feasibility study…

The Soyuz 5 rocket, also named Irtysh for a river that flows through Russia and Kazakhstan, answers to that purpose. Its first stage is powered by a single RD-171MV engine, which at sea level has three times the thrust of a single Raptor 3 engine, and is part of a…

Moldova displayed the drone outside its foreign ministry and summoned Russian ambassador Oleg Ozerov in protest, citing "a serious violation" of sovereignty - Copyright AFP Patrick MEINHARDT Moldova on Wednesday displayed a Russian drone that fell on its soil outside its foreign ministry as it summoned Moscow’s envoy over the…

The revised US peace plan was drawn up by US, Ukrainian and European officials who gathered in Geneva on Sunday. It came in response to an initial 28-point plan put forward by the US, which heavily favoured Russia, and kick-started a flurry of international diplomacy. The 28-point plan called on Ukraine…