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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky travelled to the United Arab Emirates to an Emirati official and honour guard late on Sunday as momentum grows for war peace talks ending Moscow’s war on the country. This follows the US President Donald Trump last week suggested he would be meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia. The UAE has been floated as a possible site for peace talks as well given the large population of Russian and Ukrainian expatriates who have flooded the country since the war began, and due to the Emirates’ work on prisoner exchanges in the past. ‘Peace that…

The Trump administration has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, hoping to get permission to fire head of the Office of Special Counsel dedicated to protecting whistleblowers. The emergency appeal, obtained by The Associated Press on Sunday, could likely be the start of a steady stream of court filings by lawyers of President Donald Trump and his administration aimed at reversing lower court rulings that have delayed his priorities for his second term in office. The appeal seeks to prevent Hampton Dellinger from resuming his role as the head of the Office of Special Counsel. A lower court judge…

Stephen Curry and Jayson Tatum led Shaquille O’Neal’s “Team Shaq” to a dominant 41-25 victory over “Team Chuck” in the revamped NBA All-Star Game on Sunday. The new four-team mini-tournament format, aimed at boosting competition, drew mixed reactions—while some players welcomed the change, others, like Draymond Green, slammed it as “ridiculous” and “not basketball.” Stephen Curry shines as Team Shaq wins revamped NBA All-Star game

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Sunday he was “ready and willing” to put UK troops on the ground in Ukraine, as part of any postwar peacekeeping force, to ensure the security of Britain and Europe. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, the UK Prime Minister said it was “essential to deter Putin from further aggression in the future”. UK PM says ready to send troops to Ukraine if needed as part of peace deal

Chelsea are going through a worrying slump under Enzo Maresca (Picture: Getty) Chelsea are ‘happy’ with the job Enzo Maresca has done at Stamford Bridge despite the club’s worrying slump culminating in their ‘worst performance of the season’ last time out. This time two months ago Chelsea were preparing to visit Goodison Park knowing a victory over struggling Everton would have sent them above Liverpool at the top of the Premier League. But Maresca’s side were held to a goalless draw that day and proceeded to win just three of their next eight league games to slip to sixth, one…

The filmmaker behind The Brutalist has spoken about the realities of low-budget movies (Picture: Stuart Wilson/Bafta/Getty) Bafta-winning director Brady Corbet has said making his awards favourite movie The Brutalist for under $10,000,000 (£7,939,721) was ‘not a great way to operate’. His passion project, which was over seven years in the making, wowed upon its debut at Venice Film Festival and was even compared to last year’s garlanded movie Oppenheimer, the budget of which was around tenfold more. Corbet’s film tied with Conclave and four wins as the most awarded movie at Sunday night’s Bafta Film Awards, picking up best director,…

The US says it killed senior al-Qaeda affiliate during an airstrike in northwest Syria the day before. US Central Command described the person in a statement as a “senior finance and logistics official in the terrorist organization Hurras al-Din.” US says it killed senior al-Qaeda affiliate US Central Command (CENTCOM) said it conducted the strike Saturday “in Northwest Syria targeting and killing a senior finance and logistics official in the terrorist organization Hurras al-Din (HaD), an Al-Qaeda affiliate,” according to a statement on X. Syria’s quest for national unity is critical to any sustainable peace plan and the US must stop interfering. The strike…

Wednesday’s phone call between US President Donald Trump and the Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated a radical shift in Washington’s stance. Prior to Trump-Putin Ukraine talks, there had been no direct communication between the US and Moscow since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Now, Trump has said that he hopes to meet President Putin in Saudi Arabia for “US-Russia peace talks” to end the war. However, he did not say anything to suggest that Ukraine would be included in the meeting. Trump foreign policy on Russia Trump’s secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, has declared that Ukraine…

The president of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, expressed his desire that Ukraine “be a member country of the European Union in 2030”, as a solution to avoid future invasions of Russia in the country that presides over Volidimir Zelenski, to whom he expressed his support to achieve a “fair and lasting peace.” Sanchez made these statements this afternoon during his participation in Congress that the Socialist Party of La Rioja celebrates to choose Javier García as the new regional leader after his partner Concha Andreu lost the autonomous power in the elections of 2023…

One prisoner described conditions in Israeli detention centres as “more difficult than you can imagine” [Getty]Israel released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on Saturday in exchange for three Israeli captives freed by Hamas, completing the sixth prisoner exchange since the ceasefire came into effect last month. Four of the Palestinians released were in “critical condition” and had to be rushed to hospital in the occupied West Bank for treatment, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, providing more evidence of the harsh treatment of detainees in Israeli detention centres. One prisoner described conditions in Israeli custody as “more difficult than you can…