- 25 November, 2024
Foreign Affairs, Geopolitics & National Securitywar
Biden to Putin: Step back from the brink of war with Ukraine
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden made an impassioned appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to step back from war with Ukraine on Tuesday,…
Scholz flies to Moscow in bid to avert war
By Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz heads to Moscow on Tuesday to meet President Vladimir Putin in a high stakes mission to avert war, with Russia's…
Ukraine could drop NATO bid to avoid war, ambassador tells BBC
(Reuters) -Ukraine could drop its bid to join NATO to avoid war with Russia, the BBC quoted the country's ambassador to Britain as saying, in what would amount to a…
Pope says war in Ukraine would be “madness,” backs talks
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Wednesday that war in Ukraine would be "madness" and hoped that tensions between that country and Russia could be overcome through multi-lateral…
War-weary Ukrainian soldiers in trenches ready to ‘make it or break it’
LUHANSK REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) - A group of Ukrainian soldiers patrols the frontline in eastern Ukraine when they suddenly hear the noise of grenades going off in the distance. They…
Germany’s Scholz says talks with Duda, Macron aim to ‘prevent war in Europe’
BERLIN (Reuters) - The leaders of Germany, France and Poland will discuss ways to de-escalate tensions over the Russian military build-up on the border of Ukraine in their talks late…
Analysis-Kremlin watchers detect signs Putin wants to defuse Ukraine crisis
By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) - Behind his latest outbursts against NATO and doomsday warnings to the West, there are tentative signs that Russian President Vladimir Putin is keen to avoid…
Macron tells Putin he seeks to avoid war and build trust
By Michel Rose and Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron, the top Western leader to visit Moscow since Russia began massing troops on the border with Ukraine, told…
Putin accuses U.S. of trying to lure Russia into war
By Natalia Zinets and Vladimir Soldatkin KYIV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Tuesday of deliberately creating a scenario designed to lure it into war and…
Russia says it wants peace but has ‘gun on the table’ – U.S. envoy
By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russia says it does not want war but has placed a "gun on the table" in its negotiations with the United States by massing…
Ukraine diplomat sees little chance of war, but local conflict possible
TOKYO (Reuters) - Ukraine is committed to seeking a diplomatic solution to the current tension with Russia, its ambassador to Japan, Sergiy Korsunsky, said on Wednesday, adding that he saw…
Impoverished Ethiopia seeks extra $2.5 billion to rebuild from war
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia wants to pass a supplementary budget worth 122 billion birr ($2.5 billion) to help finance programmes to rebuild areas destroyed by war and provide humanitarian…
