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Trump, Putin to discuss suspected plague case as US officials press Russia for answers
"Maybe there's nothing there, maybe it's bigger than we thought, we don't know," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, warning that the US was operating with limited information.
Freed 'Washington Post' reporter Evan Gershkovich recounts FSB plot behind Russia arrest
Trump expresses optimism on Ukraine peace deal at UN summit with Zelensky, says Putin will meet
Witkoff, Kushner heading abroad to discuss Ukraine peace, Trump says
Trump remains frustrated at being unable to end Gaza, Ukraine-Russia wars - WSJ
Trump admitted to a group of private donors at his Florida club last week that finding a solution for the Israel-Hamas conflict had been a challenge as “they’d been fighting for a thousand years.”
Ex-IDF intel. officials: Balanced Israeli combativeness can cause Russia to reduce hostility
INSS gives recipe for calibrated confrontation with Moscow to reduce support for Iran, Houthis, Hamas without leading to conflagration
Trump envoy in Russia for talks with Putin about Ukraine
US envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Putin in St. Petersburg to discuss a Ukraine peace deal and a potential Trump-Putin summit.
Kremlin says it is hard to imagine talks with US on new nuclear arms reduction treaty
The bleak assessment from Moscow comes amid the disintegration of the tangle of arms control treaties which sought to slow the arms race and reduce the risk of nuclear war.
Cautious of Trump's Russian pivot, Israel debates sharing intel, NBC reports
Some officials in other allied countries played down the idea that Trump's policies on Russia would disrupt intelligence cooperation that dates back decades.
US deports Russian man wanted for armed robbery, Moscow says
Koshelev, it said, had been part of a group that had stolen $1.5 million at gunpoint from a courier at St Petersburg's Pulkovo airport in 2014.
Israeli national handed two year sentence in US for shipping aviation parts to Russia
Gal Haimovich, a 49-year-old Israeli national, was sentenced for using his international freight forwarding company to violate US export control laws.
Americans, Russians have discussed Ukraine war through Swiss side channel, sources say
Officials held under-the-radar US-Russia talks before Trump's inauguration to discuss Ukraine war solutions.
Saudi Crown Prince, Russia's wealth fund chief were involved in US prisoner release, source says
Marc Fogel's Russian lawyer blamed the Biden administration for the delay in his client's release.
Trump repeats warning to Hamas to release hostages soon or face consequences
Trump said he would discuss ways to bring an end to the Ukraine war with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
