European Leaders Meet in Paris as U.S. Pushes Ahead With Ukraine Plan
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European Leaders Meet in Paris as U.S. Pushes Ahead With Ukraine Plan

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The leaders of many of Europe’s biggest countries on Monday will descend on Paris in an effort to forge a strategy for their own security as President Trump’s envoys prepared for talks with Russia over ending the war in Ukraine without them. The…

Starmer Offers to Send U.K. Troops to Ukraine as Part of Peace Deal
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Starmer Offers to Send U.K. Troops to Ukraine as Part of Peace Deal

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday offered British troops to help guarantee Ukraine’s security as part of any peace deal, as he and other European leaders rushed to coordinate a response to President Trump’s opening of talks with Russia about ending the war…

Diplomats in Munich Fear Trump Is Giving Up Leverage to Putin Before Talks With Ukraine
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Diplomats in Munich Fear Trump Is Giving Up Leverage to Putin Before Talks With Ukraine

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The top foreign policy official for the European Union had a blunt assessment on Friday of the Trump administration’s apparent willingness to give Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin, much of what he wants in Ukraine, even before negotiations to end the three-year war…

Vance Mentions Sanctions, Military Action to Push Russia to End Ukraine War
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Vance Mentions Sanctions, Military Action to Push Russia to End Ukraine War

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Vice President JD Vance told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday that all military and economic options were on the table if Russia did not agree to negotiate in good faith to end the war in Ukraine. “There are economic tools of leverage,…

Why Isn’t Ukraine in NATO, and What Has Trump Said?
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Why Isn’t Ukraine in NATO, and What Has Trump Said?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines After the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, the alliance took on a wider role. NATO forces — made up of troops volunteered by member states — operated as peacekeepers in Bosnia in the 1990s and bombed Serbia in 1999 to protect Kosovo, where…

Hegseth Says Return to Ukraine’s Prewar Borders Is ‘Unrealistic’
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Hegseth Says Return to Ukraine’s Prewar Borders Is ‘Unrealistic’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A return to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is “an unrealistic objective” and an “illusionary goal” in the peace settlement between Ukraine and Russia that President Trump wants to accomplish, Pete Hegseth, the U.S. defense secretary, said on Wednesday at a meeting of countries supporting…

Opinion | I’m the Foreign Minister of Poland. Europe Has Got the Message.
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Opinion | I’m the Foreign Minister of Poland. Europe Has Got the Message.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Now the bar has been raised. Mr. Trump said in January that NATO members “can all afford it, but they should be at 5 percent, not 2 percent.” Five percent is an ambitious goal for even the United States, where the Department of…

With Trump’s Backing Uncertain, Europe Scrambles to Shore Up Its Own Defenses
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With Trump’s Backing Uncertain, Europe Scrambles to Shore Up Its Own Defenses

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago convinced Europe’s leaders that they needed to spend more money on defense. On Monday, leaders from across the European Union and Britain will meet in Brussels to debate a vexing question: how to pay for…

Norway Seizes Russian-Crewed Ship Suspected of Cutting an Undersea Cable
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Norway Seizes Russian-Crewed Ship Suspected of Cutting an Undersea Cable

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The authorities in Norway have seized a Russian-crewed ship that is suspected of damaging an undersea cable in an act of sabotage in the Baltic Sea, the Norwegian police said on Friday. They were acting on a request from the Latvian authorities and…

Britain Says Russian Spy Ship Returned to U.K. Waters in Sign of Kremlin Threat
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Britain Says Russian Spy Ship Returned to U.K. Waters in Sign of Kremlin Threat

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Britain on Wednesday warned that it faced a growing threat of aggression from Russia, asserting that a Russian spy ship had passed by the English coast for the second time in three months, in the latest incident that seemed designed to test British…