The new Trump foreign policy team has brought a dizzying message to European allies on A.I., Ukraine and more. It has already left many angered and chagrined.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and European defense ministers had expressed concern that they might not be present for talks between President Trump and Russiaβs leader to end the war.
The group said that mediators were working βto remove obstacles and close gapsβ after the cease-fire deal with Israel hit a roadblock. Israel has yet to comment.
In his first trip abroad, the new U.S. defense secretary told Ukrainian and NATO officials that a durable peace could only come βwith a realistic assessment of the battlefield.β
President Trump says he wants to make a deal for minerals from Ukraine in exchange for aid. That followed a long effort by Ukrainian officials to appeal to Mr. Trumpβs transactional nature.
As Israel and Hamas accuse each other of violating the cease-fire deal, Israelβs prime minister has vowed a return to βintense fightingβ if hostages are not freed by Saturday.
Xi Jinping seems to be in no rush to engage with President Trump, who has sent mixed signals about when a call might happen (or whether it already has).
After finding refuge and building power in Venezuela, a decades-old rebel group has waged the worst violence in Colombia in a generation, setting off troubling regional tensions.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said the cease-fire would end if Hamas did not release captives held in Gaza. But he did not say how many hostages had to be freed.
The Kremlin freed Marc Fogel, a teacher held for more than three years on drug charges, in a deal negotiated by Steve Witkoff, President Trumpβs Middle East envoy.
King Abdullah II, a close U.S. ally dependent on aid from Washington, is confronting the presidentβs demands that he take in Palestinians from Gaza, a step the kingβs domestic politics will not allow.
Speaking in Paris at an artificial intelligence summit, the vice president gave an America First vision of the technology β with the U.S. dominating the chips, the software and the rules.
The president turned up the pressure on the two nations to agree to his proposal for them to house the Palestinian population of Gaza and said the Palestinians would not have the right to return to the territory.
Hamas and President Trump have threatened to upend the cease-fire. Analysts say those words could prove hollow, but the deal still may not last beyond early March.