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Zelensky to meet with Trump after Putin talks end without a ceasefire
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Zelensky to meet with Trump after Putin talks end without a ceasefire

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold a press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on August 15, 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin “went very well” after the pair met for hours one day […]

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Zelenskyy to travel to Washington on Monday for talks with Trump
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Zelenskyy to travel to Washington on Monday for talks with Trump

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (not pictured), on the day they attend a virtual meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and European leaders on the upcoming Trump-Putin summit on Ukraine, in Berlin, Germany, August 13, 2025. Liesa Johannssen | Reuters Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would […]

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Russian media is buzzing over Trump–Putin talks. The mood in Kyiv is very different
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Russian media is buzzing over Trump–Putin talks. The mood in Kyiv is very different

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the media at his campaign headquarters in Moscow on March 18, 2024.  Natalia Kolesnikova | Afp | Getty Images Russian media outlets were in high spirits on Friday as Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin headed to meet U.S. President Donald Trump for an Alaskan summit widely presented as a win […]

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Five things that could change after Trump and Putin’s high-stake talks
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Five things that could change after Trump and Putin’s high-stake talks

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan June 28, 2019. Mikhail Klimentyev | Kremlin | Sputnik | Reuters When Russian President Vladimir Putin travels to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska on Friday for talks on ending the war in […]

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CNBC Daily Open: Under Trump, business and politics are becoming bedfellows
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CNBC Daily Open: Under Trump, business and politics are becoming bedfellows

Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel, departs the White House in Washington, DC, U.S., on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. Alex Wroblewski | Bloomberg | Getty Images Don’t mix business with pleasure — or the music of the spheres might eject you from the skies even if you are an astronomer — but it seems, in the […]

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Nothing is off the table as Trump and Putin set to meet
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Nothing is off the table as Trump and Putin set to meet

US President Donald Trump (R) and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin speak during their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017 Mikhail Klimentiev | AFP | Getty Images As Russian President Vladimir Putin holds face-to-face talks with White House leader Donald Trump on Friday, Ukraine — and the […]

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Trump’s meeting with Putin is a win-win for European defense stocks, no matter the outcome
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Trump’s meeting with Putin is a win-win for European defense stocks, no matter the outcome

European defense stocks have further to run regardless of whether U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin achieve a breakthrough on the war in Ukraine later this week, market watchers say. Trump and Putin are slated to meet in person in Alaska on Friday, with a view to discuss what it would take […]

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How Putin could try to outmaneuver Trump when they meet
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How Putin could try to outmaneuver Trump when they meet

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s standing in the West may be pretty low, but he’s a skilled and seasoned statesman who shouldn’t be underestimated, analysts say — and he’s likely to be looking to outmaneuver his less experienced U.S. counterpart when the leaders meet in Alaska on Friday. Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump are meeting […]

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Trump shrugs off suspected Russian hack of U.S. federal courts: ‘Are you surprised?’
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Trump shrugs off suspected Russian hack of U.S. federal courts: ‘Are you surprised?’

US President Donald Trump speaks during the unveiling of the Kennedy Center Honors nominees on August 13, 2025, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Mandel Ngan | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Wednesday shrugged off a question about a new report that Russia is at least partially responsible for hacking the […]

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Sidelined from Trump-Putin talks, Ukraine warns the world not to trust Russia
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Sidelined from Trump-Putin talks, Ukraine warns the world not to trust Russia

US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, Feb. 28, 2025.  Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Sidelined from forthcoming talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump to negotiate an end to the war, Ukraine has warned […]

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