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Trump plans Putin-Zelensky peace summit after talks in Washington

Trump plans Putin-Zelensky peace summit after talks in Washington

Russian President Vladimir Putin Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky look set for a peace summit after fast-moving talks on Monday 18 August between Donald Trump and European leaders that focused on the key issue of long-term security guarantees for Kyiv. Hopes of a breakthrough rose after Trump said he had spoken by phone with Russian counterpart Putin, whom he met in Alaska last week, following a "very good" meeting with the Europeans and the Ukrainian president at the White House on Monday.

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Opinion: The fading shine of the city on the hill

Opinion: The fading shine of the city on the hill

For years, Armenians perceived the United States as "the land of milk and honey". Benyamin Poghosyan argues in this op-ed that throughout the post-Soviet space and beyond the image of the US is now increasingly tarnished, reducing America's capacity to use soft power to influence events abroad.
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NATO prepares for second corona wave

NATO prepares for second corona wave

NATO is preparing for a second possible corona wave," said the Secretary General of the alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, in an interview published this morning in the German newspaper WELT AM SONNTAG.
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Monday Commentary: The world is on a military spending spree

Monday Commentary: The world is on a military spending spree

It is easy to succumb to the pressures of the arms lobby and to rush into a military spending spree without understanding that there are still alternatives to this, and that these alternatives have not yet been exhausted, argues Dennis Sammut in this week's Monday Commentary on commonspace.eu