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US ready to be part of security guarantees for Ukraine, Germany’s chancellor says The United States is ready to be part of security guarantees for Ukraine, German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said on Saturday after a summit in Alaska between the US president, Donald Trump, and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, ended without a ceasefire deal. Merz was speaking to the …

Russia is preparing to loft a “miniature mouse hotel” into space. An inside view of the rodent-holding unit. (Image credit: Roscosmos) The Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite is being readied for its planned Aug. 20 launch atop a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Onboard are 75 mice and other specimens to be exposed to 30 days of radiation before …

Washington — Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and President Trump’s former rival on the presidential campaign trail, said Friday that if Mr. Trump secures an end to the war in Ukraine without Kyiv ceding territory to Russia, she would nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize herself.  Clinton made the comments on the podcast “Raging Moderates” with Jessica …

The beauty pageant world is mourning after Kseniya Alexandrova’s death, Miss Universe Russia 2017. According to reports, the beauty queen died at age 30 following a car accident in July and had remained hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the Sklifosovsky Research Institute. According to RG, the crash happened in the Tver region. Alexandrova was in the passenger seat …

In a not-so-subtle act of trolling, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, arrived in Alaska on the eve of the US–Russia summit wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with “CCCP”, the Russian initials for the USSR. Once seen in western capitals as a pragmatic and skilled diplomat, the 75-year-old has in recent years mirrored the Kremlin’s radicalised politics, adopting an increasingly combative tone …

Russia and Ukraine Agree: A Trump Summit Is a Big Win for Putin  The New York Times Trump says Putin will make deal on Ukraine as leaders prepare for Alaska meeting  CNN Live updates: Trump raises possibility of Zelensky joining him and Putin in Alaska  The Washington Post Alaska Governor Weighs in Ahead of Trump-Putin Summit  Newsweek Putin praises Trump’s ‘sincere’ peace efforts, signals …

When Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump meet in Alaska, the Russian president will set out to woo his US counterpart and dangle financial incentives for siding with Moscow over Ukraine. The hastily arranged summit, organised at Putin’s request, will be his first invitation to meet a US president on American soil since he visited George W Bush in 2007. The …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the Trump administration’s “energetic” efforts to stop the war in Ukraine and hinted that Moscow and Washington could strike a deal on nuclear arms control during their summit on Friday in Alaska. Before he travels to Alaska to meet the US president, Putin chaired a meeting on Thursday of senior Russian …

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (L) welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) in front of Chancellery on August 13, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. Filip Singer/Getty Images Europe hide caption toggle caption Filip Singer/Getty Images Europe BERLIN — European leaders met virtually with President Trump today, urging him to press Russian President Vladimir Putin for a ceasefire and security guarantees for Ukraine …

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an ironic twist, President Donald Trump is set to discuss the war in Ukraine with Russian leader Vladimir Putin at a military base in Alaska that was crucial to countering the Soviet Union during the height of Cold War and still plays a role today. The meeting is scheduled to take place Friday at Joint Base …