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President Donald Trump has said that the U.S. will sign a new minerals deal next Thursday, in an apparent reference to talks with Ukraine.

Ukraine and the United States have made “substantial progress” in their talks on a minerals deal and will sign a memorandum in the near future, First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on Wednesday.

Russia stands ready to do everything in its power to help settle differences between Tehran and Washington over Iran’s nuclear program, the Kremlin’s spokesman has said.

China hiked its levies on imports of U.S. goods to 125% on Friday, hitting back at Donald Trump’s decision to single out the world’s No. 2 economy for higher duties, while dismissing the U.S. president’s tariff strategy as “a joke.”

The first round of talks on normalizing diplomatic ties was held in February.

An announcement about the planned relocation of U.S. troops within Poland was widely misunderstood on Polish social media, according to a study.

The U.S. said China had had shown a “lack of respect to the world’s markets.”

The European Union has voted to impose tariffs on a raft of U.S. imports in response to Donald Trump applying a 25% levy on steel and aluminum from the EU.

Around 70 soldiers from a specialist medical unit of the U.S. National Guard – nicknamed the “Witch Doctors” – will be deployed to Poland within the next month.

Donald Trump could make a “historical mistake” if he recognises Russian claims to occupied Ukrainian territory during peace negotiations, a top Polish official has warned.

Hundreds gathered outside the U.S. Embassy to honor the fallen soldiers.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb made a surprise trip on Saturday to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida, where the two leaders discussed strengthening their countries' bilateral partnership and played a round of golf.

A court order has temporarily blocked the U.S. government’s drive to close down the state-funded Voice of America (VOA) news network, which served audiences in countries lacking press freedom.

Vice President JD Vance arrived in Greenland on Friday and declared that U.S. interest in Arctic security would grow for decades.

The U.S. wants to tap into all Ukrainian mineral assets while giving little in return.

The United States reached deals on Tuesday with Ukraine and Russia to pause attacks at sea and against energy targets, with Washington agreeing to push to lift some sanctions against Moscow in its latest step towards endorsing Russia's positions.

The United States has indefinitely suspended plans to introduce visa-free travel for Romanian nationals.

Russia, the world's top wheat and fertilizer exporter, said on Tuesday that Western sanctions against companies involved in food and fertilizer exports and shipping would have to be lifted as a pre-condition for a Black Sea maritime security deal.

A Russian missile strike damaged a school and a hospital in Ukraine on Monday, wounding at least 74 people, as U.S. and Russian officials discussed a narrow proposal for a ceasefire at sea in the hope it could lead to wider peace talks.

The U.S.’ special envoy to the Middle East dismissed UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer’s plan to send troops to enforce a ceasefire calling the idea “simplistic.”