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While NATO is seeking to support Kiev in its fight with Russia, any serious talk about Ukraine joining the alliance will be possible only after the end of the conflict, the bloc’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday. When asked at a joint press conference with Estonian Prime Minister …

Ukraine must “prevail as a sovereign, independent state” before it can formally join NATO, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Saturday, despite Kiev already considering itself a de-facto member of the Western bloc. “NATO’s position on membership for Ukraine is unchanged,” Stoltenberg told a panel at the Munich Security Conference. …

The US must address the damage that its House Speaker Nancy Pelosai caused with her recent visit to Taiwan before expecting any cooperation from China on climate-related issues, the country’s diplomats have warned. “The US side should dispel the negative influence of Pelosi scuttling to Taiwan,” the Foreign Ministry said …

The US needs to start respecting Moscow’s interests before damaged bilateral relations can be amended, a senior Russian diplomat has said. “I’ll be frank: we’re not seeing grounds for finding compromises with Washington, which is not quite capable of negotiating,” Aleksandr Darchiev, the head of the Foreign Ministry’s North American …

Billionaire Elon Musk would go through with the deal to buy Twitter if the social media platform demonstrates how it checks the authenticity of user accounts, Musk wrote on Twitter on Saturday. Responding to a comment by another user, Musk said the deal to buy Twitter “should proceed on original …

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has revealed that his predecessor Shinzo Abe was in a “grave condition” after an apparent assassination attempt on Friday. The prime minister condemned the attack “in the strongest terms.” Speaking to journalists about the incident, Kishida said a motive was yet to be determined and …

Ukraine will resume grain exports only when its own security is ensured, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexey Danilov said on Tuesday as the Russian military offensive continues in his country. Speaking on national TV, Danilov recalled a statement by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs “which clearly …

One of football’s most well-known power brokers, Mino Raiola, is in ‘critical condition’ but contrary to reports has not succumbed to a serious illness. It was claimed on Thursday that Raiola had passed away at the age of 54 after a battle with an unspecified illness, although those reports have …

If Western countries continue to expel Russian diplomats, Moscow won’t rule out the possibility of severing diplomatic ties with them, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. He described the recent wave of expulsions as “closing the window” for continued diplomatic relations. “There is such a potential risk, since every …

The top diplomat warned that if NATO agrees with Poland’s proposal to deploy peacekeepers to Ukraine, the move could trigger a military conflict between the alliance and Moscow. “Our Polish colleagues have already stated that there will be a NATO summit now, and peacekeepers should be deployed. I hope they …