US president tells Ukraine leader to give up Nato and Crimea ambitions in run-up to White House talks. Donald Trump has put pressure on Volodymyr Zelenskyy before talks in Washington with European leaders on Monday, saying the Ukrainian leader could end the war “almost immediately” if he wanted to. The…

The rate setters made clear that above-inflation pay claims would be likely to bring credit loosening to a halt. A reduction in interest rates by the Bank of England should rank as a joyful summer gift to borrowers weighed down by the high cost of mortgages and loans. Yet the…

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said that “both sides are going to have to make concessions” for there to be a peaceful resolution to the war that erupted when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. “You can’t have a peace agreement unless both sides make concessions – that’s a…

Ukrainian president hopes ‘joint strength with America, with our European friends, will force Russia into a real peace’ as he joins leaders from Europe in Washington for crucial summit with Donald Trump A Russian drone attack on a five-storey apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv early Monday killed…

 The total or partial reproduction of an article, without the prior written authorization of Thousands of Bosnians gathered at the site of the largest massacre of civilians in Europe since the end of World War II. Many drew parallels between the 1995 genocide and the current situation in Gaza, believing…