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Rattled leaders on the continent are scrambling to salvage US support for Ukraine after President Donald Trump’s explosive meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Leaders have wrapped up a summit in London with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss the war and beefing up military spending across Europe in the wake of a fiery meeting with Donald Trump.

US support is still needed for a peace deal in Ukraine, shadow home affairs minister James Paterson says, despite a heated exchange between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.

Israel has agreed to a US proposal for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza that would last throughout the holy periods of Ramadan and Passover.

Britain has greeted Ukraine with open arms following an ugly confrontation with the US, offering a $3.7b defence loan after the two leaders were photographed embracing.

The Ukraine and the US jousted publicly and aggressively in a way that could upend already tenuous US support for the Zelensky government. Here are four key takeaways.

Wartime history shows that any aggression and expansion will end in failure, Taiwan has warned China, after Beijing said it would take the island eventually.

The US and Russia have held talks focused on conditions for each other's diplomats, providing an early test of their ability to reset wider relations.

Israel’s military acknowledged its ‘complete failure’ to prevent Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack, the deadliest in the nation’s history, in a scathing internal probe, as peace talks begin in Cairo.

The UK PM has shown that being on the other side of the political divide doesn’t matter as much to MAGA’s warrior-in-chief as fronting up and putting forward your case in a tough but respectful way.

During a meeting between US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, four words about AUKUS have raised concerns.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Some officials and analysts see the Trump administration as merely indifferent to Europe; others see open hostility. But there is a common view that the fundamental relationship has changed.

Under the new order federal agency heads are directed to justify and publicise government payments and travel expenses as part of DOGE’s major cost-cutting efforts.

In the first cabinet meeting of President Donald Trump’s second term, he issued a clear threat to his members, revealed a new tariff deadline and said he expected his orders to be followed with ‘no exceptions’