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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has wrapped up talks with US envoys in Norway Tuesday where he was determined to put diplomacy back on a "more constructive path”, Oslo officials said. Zelensky told a post-meeting press briefing that Ukraine was not losing the war but was “losing people and time”, adding that he was hopeful moving forward because “we have some clear ideas of how to get peace”.
Annette Young is pleased to welcome Dr Joseph Downing, Senior Lecturer International Relations and Politics at Aston University. French unrest raises questions about political accountability, police exhaustion and the increasingly confrontational relationship between citizens and the state. Downing argues that France must reassess how the state exercises authority and responds to both violent unrest and legitimate social movements. And he draws attention to France's centralised policing culture, its revolutionary traditions and the wider threat of Russian information warfare.
Trump calls for Zelenskyy to be replaced as negotiator, while Ukraine's president says arms shipments delayed.
Relations between the two countries are dominated by policy complexes shaped by a history of hostility.
On Thursday Ethiopia accused neighbouring Eritrea of "hostile and belligerent acts", closed its embassy on the spot and ordered ten Eritrean diplomats to pack their bags. Asmara responded by breaking diplomatic relations. Tensions intensified in the midst of conflict in northern Ethiopia between Ethiopian army and anti-government groups. Several explosions of unknown origin were heard during the night of Wednesday to Thursday in the Ethiopian capital.
Pope Leo XIV urged Europe to remember its Christian history and appealed for peace and unity in a speech delivered in France's northeastern city of Metz on Monday, the fourth and final day of his visit. "Relations between individuals and states are becoming increasingly uncivilised. The value of keeping one's word is dismissed. Instead, people boast of lies and deceit," he said. "Europe can help to break this cycle through the respect for others that it has learned to cultivate and preserve."
South Korea has accused Ukraine of breaching a confidentiality agreement over the transfer of North Korean prisoners of war — and of denying the deal's existence. Seoul has demanded an apology.
South Korea's presidential office criticised Ukraine for denying POW nondisclosure agreement.
Relations strain further as Afghanistan and Pakistan trade accusations over terrorism and cross-border violence.
Belgium and Rwanda today announced the restoration of their diplomatic relations. They were broken in 2025. It was Kigali, who had made the decision, accusing his former colonial power of having sided with Kinshasa in the DRC conflict.
In an interview with France 24 on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York, Togo's Foreign Minister, Robert Dussey, assures us that relations "have never been difficult" between France and Togo, a country where France 24 and RFI are suspended. He also called not to isolate the countries of the Alliance of Sahel States.
AI, from chatbots to humanoids and automated management systems, are being widely deployed by corporations with huge repercussions for worker pay and autonomy.
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine destroyed the once-close relationship between Moscow and Berlin. Yet the far-right AfD is calling for a normalization of relations.
