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BEIJING — U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are due to meet in China next week for a trilateral summit, the White House and the Kremlin confirmed on Saturday. Trump plans to discuss a possible reduction in global nuclear arsenals during the meeting, White House sources said. 

MANAMA, Bahrain — When Iran's military planners prepared to hit American bases in the Middle East, they relied on intelligence from an unlikely source: U.S. service members themselves. According to security experts and even the U.S. military, Iran harvested data from social media accounts, fitness apps and even ads to establish patterns of life in U.S. bases across the region. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said U.S. peace envoys asked whether Ukraine would be willing to give up the Donbas region in the nation’s east to Russia in exchange for NATO membership, signaling a potential shift in Washington’s negotiating tactics. As the full-scale war between Ukraine and Russia heads toward the end of its fifth year in February, the administration of President Donald Trump is trying to make a breakthrough in the peace negotiations they’re moderating.

BUDAPEST – Hungarian authorities have recovered nearly $20 million in cash, some buried in forests or hidden in farm buildings and warehouses, in a bribery investigation into Miklos Sesztak, a minister under former leader Viktor Orban. The clampdown is part of an anti-graft ⁠drive the centre-right Magyar has dubbed "Operation Purgatory", which 70% of respondents rated as "very important" in a survey by the pollster Median carried by ‌news website HVG this week.

MEXICO CITY – While delivering his first speech as pope last year from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, Leo XIV paused, and then briefly switched from Italian to Spanish.

DUBLIN – Irish army bomb experts made a crude but viable explosive device safe at an office building in central Dublin on Friday, close to where world leaders dined a day earlier during a two-day summit in the Irish capital.

In what appears to be the first policy statement about Cuba since the end of the Cold War, G7 foreign ministers have called on the island’s government to carry out “significant and meaningful political and economic reforms” and take “concrete steps” toward multi-party democracy. The joint declaration was adopted at a meeting in Paris earlier this week, marking a rare alignment among seven of ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday shut down his administration’s on-again-off-again talks with Iran, saying he would not seek a deal to formally end the nine-month-old conflict with Tehran.

U.S. envoys arrived at the Kremlin for talks with President Vladimir Putin in a renewed push for a Ukraine peace deal, as Kyiv warned restrictions had reappeared on its Starshield internet terminals used by frontline troops.

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner plan to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday to continue a push for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, after a second day of talks between the sides in Abu Dhabi ended in less than two hours.

Israel’s newly-elected lawmakers unveiled a series of bills targeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the day the new Knesset was sworn in, a sign his rivals are eager to undo his political legacy after their recent election victory.

Pope Leo was greeted by the largest crowd of his papacy in an emotional return to Peru on Wednesday, declaring the South American country where he served as a missionary for two decades his homeland.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Pope Leo drew a crowd of a million on Tuesday for the third strong turnout of his 12-day South America tour, as he urged young people at a nighttime vigil in Argentina not to be consumed by the pursuit of money or social ​media popularity. Throngs stretched for miles down the Avenida del Libertador, one of Buenos Aires' main boulevards.

ABU DHABI – Russian and Ukrainian officials met in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday for their first peace talks since February as President Donald Trump's envoys launched a new push to end the war in Ukraine. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the US-brokered meeting as very productive, without giving details. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the talks "constructive and quite substantive," and said they had included humanitarian and security issues.

Russian and Ukrainian envoys will discuss territorial issues and proposals for ceasefire monitoring in the United Arab Emirates this week, according to a senior U.S. official, as a new round of negotiations to end the war gets underway. The official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity Monday, said there had been daily discussions with both Russia and Ukraine in the run-up to the trilateral summit and expressed cautious optimism representatives would make progress over two days of scheduled talks in Abu Dhabi starting Tuesday.