Putin highlighted the need for equitable international relations, positioning organisations like Brics and SCO as platforms for this vision
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will soon have answer on whether Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy will hold talks. I'm having a conversation with him very shortly, and I'll know pretty much what we're going to be doing, Trump told reporters at his Oval Office. He did not clarify if he was talking about Putin or Zelenskyy. However, a White House official who was not authorised to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity said Trump was referring to Zelenskyy. Trump also reiterated that he thought bringing an end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict would be much easier than it has proven to be. Still, he said that the bloodshed in eastern Europe has to end, and expressed confidence that he'll be able to bring the conflict to a close. Not since the second World War has there been anything even close to this, Trump said. He added, They not soldiers from my country. This is my country. But I have a power to end thin
Wadephul is on a two-day visit to India, which was planned earlier but comes on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's huddle with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi
The SCO meet exemplifies a nuanced balancing act between India and China - cooperation where feasible, vigilance where imperative
"It seems to me that if common sense prevails, it will be possible to agree on an acceptable solution to end this conflict. That is my assumption," Putin told reporters
The two leaders met formally at the Diaoyutai state guest house after attending a major military parade in the heart of the Chinese capital that marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
This massive project will transport 50 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually from western Russia to northern China via Mongolia
Donald Trump's comment comes as China hosted an extravagant military parade in Beijing, which was attended by Russia's Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
India's shift ends hopes of reducing China's global economic grip through unilateral trade cuts, as New Delhi, once leading that push, is now forced to reverse course
Chinese leader Xi Jinping welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin as an old friend as the two began a series of meetings Tuesday at a time when their countries face both overlapping and differing challenges from the United States. Relations between China and Russia have deepened in recent years, particularly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. Putin addressed Xi as dear friend and said that Moscow's ties with Beijing are at an unprecedentedly high level. Following their formal talks, they planned to have another meeting over tea with some of their top aides. The talks come the day after both attended a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in the nearby Chinese city of Tianjin, and the day before a grand Chinese military parade in Beijing to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Soviet Union was neutral for much of the war in Asia, but provided assistance to China in earlier fighting against invading Japanese forces in the 1930s. It
The train is expected to arrive in Beijing later in the day, Yonhap said, citing the Korean Central Broadcasting Station, the North's state-run radio service
Describing the visit as "productive" in a post on X, PM Modi said he emphasised India's position on key global issues during his engagements
Speaking at the summit, Putin said the West had tried to bring Ukraine into the West's orbit and then sought to entice the former Soviet republic into the US-led NATO military alliance
Xi was hosting more than 20 leaders of non-Western countries at a summit in the Chinese port city of Tianjin for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
EU chief's flight lost navigation signals near Bulgaria's Plovdiv airport, highlighting rising GPS jamming across Europe since Russia's invasion of Ukraine
The Modi-Putin-Xi huddle, that took place before the start of the plenary session of the SCO summit, had Western media interpret it as a message to US President Donald Trump
At the SCO Summit in Tianjin, China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a united global front against terrorism. Member states strongly condemned the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was offered a lift by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his AURUS limousine to reach the venue of their bilateral talks on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit here on Monday. The two leaders continued their one-to-one dialogue on the way to the hotel where they were to be joined by members of their teams. However, on reaching the hotel they did not deboard the Russian president's limousine and continued their conversation for 50 minutes, Russian national radio station VestiFM reported. Later, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the two leaders had tet-a-tet in the car for about an hour. Modi also took to social media to share a photo of himself and the Russian president inside the limousine. After the proceedings at the SCO Summit venue, President Putin and I travelled together to the venue of our bilateral meeting. Conversations with him are always insightful, Modi said. Commentators in Moscow say perhaps this w
At SCO Summit in Tianjin, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hails ties with Moscow and calls for dialogue for peace in Ukraine
Putin further said that the understandings reached at the Alaska summit with US President Trump opened the way to peace in Ukraine