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The United States is set to hold talks on the future of its military presence in Iraq, officials told multiple news outlets, suggesting Washington and Baghdad will discuss a timeline to end the decade-long US deployment. In a message delivered to Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein on Wednesday, the US …

Sustaining the conflict in Ukraine is becoming increasingly difficult for NATO, so Kiev must think about negotiating with Moscow, retired US Army brigadier general Mark T. Kimmitt has said in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal. Washington’s latest military aid package to Kiev last month included “older and …

The mayor of the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov, believes the conflict with Russia should be resolved politically. Kiev and Moscow should cease the hostilities and return to the negotiating table, he told Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper in an interview published on Sunday. Although he supports the …

Bulgaria will not negotiate a new natural gas contract with Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom, amid the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister Assen Vassilev said Saturday. “In this situation, there’s no way there are talks with Gazprom,” he told BNR public radio. The country …

Moscow is willing to negotiate terms of surrender with Kiev regarding the ongoing Russian military offensive currently taking place in Ukraine, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. According to Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his preparedness to engage in discussions with his Ukrainian counterpart, with a …

Washington is willing to talking to Russia about the list of security guarantees proposed by Moscow, and officials can sit down for discussions in January, the White House revealed on Thursday. Last week, the Russian Foreign Ministry pitched a list of proposals to the US and NATO in the form of two …

As if the drama of Lionel Messi’s Barcelona contract talks breaking down, ending a 21-year relationship with the Catalans, and then joining PSG wasn’t exhausting enough, one of the most chaotic transfer windows of modern times has more in store. Real Madrid, whose rogue president Florentino Perez claimed they were broke …

Speaking on Friday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU had ordered more than enough doses for everyone in the EU, as Brussels announced its purchase of another 300 million doses of the Pfizer jab.  Von der Leyen took the opportunity to warn member states against …

Especially given the political leaders who came to power in Kiev after the 2013-14 Maidan uprising have spent years telling the Ukrainian public that the sacrifices made since then were to make EU accession possible. What’s more, promises of eventual EU membership were behind the original ‘EuroMaidan’ protests themselves.  “Not all the EU …

At today’s meeting and a joint briefing with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky has declared its readiness to resume negotiations with Russia and efforts to implement the Minsk agreements. Note that earlier, speaking on may 23 at the IFORUM conference-2019, the President Zelensky do …