First Face-to-Face Ukraine-Russia Talks in Three Years Show No Progress in Turkey
Delegations from Ukraine and Russia met in Turkey on Friday for the first time since 2022, but progress appeared limited by mid-afternoon.

Delegations from Ukraine and Russia met in Turkey on Friday for the first time since 2022, but progress appeared limited by mid-afternoon.

The time has come: After a typically turbulent month of gimmicks, weird social media videos, and more fondue than anyone’s doctor would recommend, the Eurovision Song Contest will hold its Grand Final on Saturday.

New Zealand pop star Lorde defined her gender identity as some days being a woman and some days being a man.

Cannes, FRANCE — There are not many fans of Donald Trump’s dream to save Hollywood with tariffs among the dealmakers at the Cannes film festival — even among those who voted for him.

Three killed in a blaze at a former British military base that is now used to commemorate the history of aviation and motor sports.

Ukrainian national arrested over three suspected arson attacks involving properties connected to the Prime Minister has appeared in court.

The head of Budapest’s Office for the Protection of Sovereignty claimed that tens of millions of dollars from the United States and the European Union have funded left-leaning media institutions over the past three years, with the intent of overthrowing the conservative government of Viktor Orbán in Hungary.

Israel has won its way through to the Eurovision grand final on Saturday, hours after anti-Israel protesters in Basel, Switzerland, tried to disrupt the country’s dress rehearsal and prevent a survivor of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack go forward.

LONDON — American R&B singer Chris Brown, the former boyfriend of superstar Rihanna, is due to appear in a UK court on Friday after being arrested and charged over an alleged assault at a London nightclub in 2023, police said.

Spain is running its national power grid in “strengthened mode”, using more nuclear and natural gas in place of the renewables.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that Russia would make “adjustments” in its demands to Ukraine “due to developments on the ground,” a vague declaration following the Kremlin’s confirmation that strongman Vladimir Putin would reject Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call to meet in person.

Trump’s proposed 100% tariffs on films produced outside the United States has found favor with certain Hollywood workers who lost jobs due to foreign credits.

Richard Grenell, the top man at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, called out actor Robert De Niro, who delivered yet another wild anti-Trump screed at Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday.

Germany’s interior minister said Thursday that the number of people turned back at the country´s borders increased by nearly half.

Progress on Russia-Ukraine peace talks will depend on a leaders meeting with President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump said.

CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival barred French actor Théo Navarro-Mussy from attending the premiere of the competition entry “Case 137,” in what’s believed to be a first for the festival in the #MeToo era.

They might look like lost tourists – unkempt and overloaded with gear – or hikers with military haircuts.

Aging rocker and longtime Democratic Party mouthpiece Bruce Springsteen delivered a splenetic tirade against Donald Trump on Wednesday night, opening his “Land of Hope and Dreams” tour in Manchester, England, by attacking the Republican president’s “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.”

Successful diplomacy can only be negotiated from a position of strength. President Donald Trump honored that credo Thursday when he visited U.S. troops at the Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, praising their crucial role in regional security while saluting America’s ongoing commitment to ending – not beginning – conflicts.

Ukraine’s President Zelensky decried Potemkin delegation sent by Russia to peace talks after it transpired Putin won’t be attending.

The case to brand the AfD as an extremist group appears to have been primarily built on mere political opinions said in public.

Hollywood appears to be relenting in its boycott of the Russian film market despite past claims of supporting Ukraine with a policy of punishing Russia for its invasion.

The Cannes Film Festival opening night was reportedly interrupted by workers who protested near the red carpet over a labor dispute.

Pope Leo vowed to help protect Catholic communities in the Mideast and Europe that have been decimated by years of conflict and persecution.

Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe will not face criminal charges over alleged threats made against Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf.

In his first address to the Bundestag parliament on Wednesday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed to rearm Germany so that the country would have the “strongest” military force in Europe.

NATO foreign ministers began meeting in Antalya, Turkey, on Wednesday as they rush to boost defence spending and satisfy U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand of a five percent GDP outlay.

Nearly two-thirds of Britons want to reduce immigration, with around half calling for it to be cut “significantly” and a majority agreeing with the prime minister’s assertion that migration damages the fabric of society, polling shows.

Three Ukrainian nationals have been arrested in Germany and Switzerland on suspicion of agreeing to send parcels containing explosive or incendiary devices from Germany to Ukraine, apparently at the behest of people acting for Russia, German prosecutors said Wednesday.

A claimed “gender gap” in carbon emissions was revealed Wednesday in a French study that found women emit 26 percent less carbon than men due to their diet and transport choices.

The Kremlin has refused to confirm who’s going to Turkey and whether it will include Putin while Ukraine has said that Zelensky will only sit down with the Russian leader.

French President Emmanuel Macron shot down calls for a national referendum on the mass migration policies imposed on France, despite his Minister of Interior backing a public vote on the issue.

Robert De Niro used his appearance before the fawning, gilded elites at the 78th Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday to sneer at U.S. President Donald Trump as “America’s philistine president.”

A United Nations (U.N.) agency ruled Monday that Russia was responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in July 2014 over Ukraine.

Oscar-winning actress and James Bond film alum Halle Berry said she doesn’t know if James Bond “should be a woman,” adding that she doesn’t feel it is “the right thing to do” while taking questions at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Tuesday.

Natasha Lyonne, star of the critically acclaimed NBC streaming crime dramedy “Poker Face,” went on the attack against critics of transgenderism and conflated the argument that it is no one’s business what people do in their private lives with the issue of taxpayer subsidized surgeries and medication for minors.

Argentina has announced a “discovery of global significance” after unearthing a store of documents from Nazi Germany sitting in decades-old champagne boxes in the basement of the country’s Supreme Court.

Left-wing politicians moved fast to shut down the British Prime Minister — their own man — after he conceded mass migration is damaging.

Istanbul, Turkey, appeared in position on Monday to host a historic restart of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine – and, potentially, leaders Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky – a coveted position that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan worked for years to establish.

The 78th Cannes Film Festival opened Tuesday at the famed French seaside resort with elite performers lining up to fawn over each other – and Robert De Niro. Ukraine will also be flattered with a salute of its own.
