Europe

Anthony Albanese and his New Zealand counterpart joined a meeting of global leaders overnight to discuss “a reassurance force” designed to prevent further Russian aggression.

Feelings of shock and disbelief have engulfed the Finnish Parliament after a respected young politician died suddenly inside the country’s main government building.

LATIKA M BOURKE: The Ukrainian president’s gang of Euro leaders deftly flattered Donald Trump in a bid to steer him away from the Kremlin. But grave questions still linger about Kyiv’s way forward.

European leaders rushed to Washington meet with President Trump and back up Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but hours of talks did not yield a clear deal to end the war.

Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders have learned a thing or two about negotiating, Trump-style. So has Vladimir Putin.

Sweden’s iconic Kiruna Church will begin a two-day trip to a new home, inching five kilometres down an Arctic road to save its wooden walls from the expansion of the world’s largest underground iron ore mine.

A former Miss Universe beauty pageant contestant has died following a tragic incident, where she was found ‘covered in blood’.

The meeting follows President Donald Trump’s summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska, after which Trump told allies that Putin wanted Ukraine’s Donbas.

US President Donald Trump's envoy says Russian officials agreed to ‘robust’ foreign security guarantees for Ukraine during a summit in Alaska.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: One legal requirement stops the Russian president from getting into most Western countries, so why was the United States able to roll out the red carpet for him?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin reached no agreement to end the war in Ukraine. But if the substance remained unsettled, the atmospherics were extraordinary.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump’s posture toward Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has veered from admiring to infuriated over the years.

President Trump wants to be seen as a peacemaker, but the Alaska meeting with the Russian leader comes with enormous stakes.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The war in Ukraine has become the political, psychological and economic centre of Putin’s regime.

Outside the Greek port city of Patras, firefighters struggled to protect homes and agricultural facilities as flames tore through pine forests and olive groves.