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President returns to jocular mood after Ukrainians agree to sign his deal, laughing off his having called Zelensky ‘dictator’ last week.

A Ukrainian government jet carrying President Volodymyr Zelensky departed the Republic of Ireland Thursday afternoon.

The Russian delegation arrived at the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, for further talks to normalise diplomatic contact.

Ukrainian news publisher claims to have released full text of the rare earths mineral deal ahead of claimed Friday signing.

Second high-level meeting between U.S. and Russia has been announced for Thursday, but State Department said Ukraine won’t be on the agenda. 

Zelensky will sign a rare earths deal with Trump on Friday, formalising the future economic relationship between the two countries.

Crisis facing Germany too urgent to allow months of talks, election winner Merz says, handing more negotiation leverage to the political left.

France went straight from agreeing peacekeepers with President Trump to floating an Anglo-French deployment of nuclear weapons to Germany. 

Three “explosive devices” thrown at a Russian consulate in France on morning of the third anniversary of Russia’s latest invasion of Ukraine. 

Sovereigntist AfD soar to new heights, but milquetoast conservatives may still prefer to enter into an Merkel-style coalition with the left.

Israeli diplomats in Germany once again the target of extremists, with a Islamist motive investigated after arrest made at a Berlin airport.

It will be impossible to justify U.S. military spending to voters if it is used to protect Euros that increasingly act like the bad guys.

Ukraine NATO membership could play role of both carrot and stick to encourage more civilised behaviour from Russia, report claims.

The outcome of the German Federal elections this week will likely determine whether conscription will return to the country as the government finds itself thousands of soldiers short of what it thinks it needs.

PM immediately offered Zelensky affirmation over his democratic status after Trump blasted Ukraine for cancelling its elections.

Britain is set to pitch a plan for thousands of NATO soldiers in Ukraine this coming week, a notion Russia says constitutes “direct threat”. 

If Zelensky wants a seat at peace talks, he should refresh his democratic mandate by holding now long-delayed elections, Trump said.

Russia praised first round of Ukraine talks, with U.S. delegation saying both sides committed to work towards in-person Presidential meeting. 

Marco Rubio and Sergei Lavrov meet for talks on Ukraine, but even before sitting down Russia demonstrated its hard bargaining mindset.

Starmer declared willingness to deploy British troops to Ukraine “in harm’s way” to deter Russian aggression.

Diplomat once known for laughing at Trump’s warning on Germany’s dependence on Russian energy was unable to finish speech rejecting JD Vance.

Europe is obsessed with external threats but is so morally lost it isn’t even clear what it’s defending itself for any more, JD Vance warned.

America finds Europe’s retreat from shared values as the continent turns away from democracy and towards censorship “shocking”, Vance said.

Trump looking forward to fundamentally productive negotiation with Russia, JD Vance said, in comments mischaracterised as a threat of war.

Some injured seriously and others possibly fatally when a driver ploughed car into a trade union rally in Munich on Thursday morning. 

The UK’s left-wing government, losing voters to the populist-sovereigntist Reform UK party, has launched a counteroffensive of tough talk on border control, yet boasts of rising deportations ring hollow when the bar is so low.

Ukraine will enter into peace talks with Putin as long as the U.S. and Europe give “more security guarantees” not to “abandon” the country.

Hundreds of sabotaged cars in Germany may have actually been attacked by Russian agents in a plot to discredit Green politics, reports claim.

Spin doctor, consigliere to Iraq war architect Blair, and “Prince of Darkness” Peter Mandelson insists he does know how to be diplomatic.

Reform leader gets unusually sympathetic treatment in newspaper profile, calls politicians “wankers” while expressing empathy for Starmer.

Labour faces split over how to beat Farage, with faction complaining party has already gone too far in trying to appeal to Reform voters.

Migrant Crisis architect Angela Merkel again lashed out at her successor in German politics for moving away from the open borders paradigm.

The first Mirage 2000 fighters promised to Ukraine by France’s President Macron arrived on Thursday along with their French-trained crews. 

Legacy parties are “colluding” to cancel elections across the UK this year because they fear the rise of Reform UK says Farage.

No arrests after “kalashnikov” shooting on public transport lines being shut down to allow police to hunt suspects in subway tunnels. 

Swedish authorities increased the official death toll of the country’s “worst mass shooting” at an adult education school to 11.