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Ukraine will send a delegation to Istanbul, led by Defence Minister Rustem Umerov, to attend talks with a team from Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday after holding talks in Ankara with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Zelenskyy, who has called for an unconditional 30-day ceasefire in the war …

All signs point to Canada and the United States holding trade negotiations in two separate phases — with some now on immediate irritants, and the rest next year. The process is still taking shape. But the two-step idea is emerging in comments following this week’s meeting between Prime Minister Mark Carney …

China has announced a barrage of measures meant to counter the blow to its economy from U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war, as the two sides prepare for talks later this week. Beijing’s central bank governor and other top financial officials outlined plans Wednesday to cut interest rates and reduce bank reserve requirements …

Joe Biden expressed dismay in his first post-presidential interview over his successor Donald Trump’s statements about acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal, and of Canada becoming the 51st U.S. state. Biden told BBC Radio 4’s Today program in remarks that aired Wednesday that those Trump threats, along with his administration’s diplomatic efforts …

The United States has withdrawn from talks in London looking at advancing decarbonization in the shipping sector, and Washington will consider “reciprocal measures” to offset any fees charged to U.S. ships, a diplomatic note said. Delegates are at the UN shipping agency’s headquarters this week for negotiations over decarbonization measures aimed …

Canada’s prime minister, whoever that is in a few weeks, is about to walk straight into a historic crossroads. We learned Friday the next government will start wide-ranging negotiations on a new economic and security arrangement with the United States. This could lead to drastically different places — down one …

U.S. and Ukrainian delegations began meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Kyiv’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday, two weeks after a disastrous meeting between the two countries’ leaders at the White House — and hours after a Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region. Officials in Moscow said Russian air defences shot down 337 Ukrainian drones, …

Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s energy and gas infrastructure in their latest drone and missile attack, Ukraine’s energy minister said on Friday. Regional officials from the northeastern city of Kharkiv to the western city of Ternopil reported damage to energy and other infrastructure. Eight people were injured in Kharkiv and two …

The latest round of talks on the second phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has made no progress so far, and it was unclear whether the talks would resume on Saturday, a senior Hamas official said. The first phase of the ceasefire, which paused 15 months of fighting …

The top diplomats from Russia and the U.S. met Tuesday in Saudi Arabia for about four hours to discuss improving ties and negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine, in talks that represented a rapid and major change in American foreign policy under U.S. President Donald Trump. President Vladimir …