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The White House said Friday that President Trump will close his visit to China next week with a three-way meeting with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, the first ever among the leaders of the three nations.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Honduran President Nasry Asfura in Washington on Friday and thanked him for Honduras’ partnership on defense, security and immigration.
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The State and Treasury departments on Friday imposed terrorist designations on three Guatemala-based drug trafficking groups that officials say move narcotics for Mexico’s largest cartels.
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Hours after meeting Putin in Moscow, U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner briefed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy near Dublin. Both sides said the largest prisoner exchange of the war is coming.
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After meeting Putin at the Kremlin, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said European representatives will join the next round of Ukraine peace talks. “We’ve set a new meeting,” he said.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed President Trump’s upcoming APEC trip and agreed on the importance of leader-level talks to advance peace and denuclearization, the State Department said.
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At the Kremlin, President Putin asked Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to convey his gratitude to President Trump for organizing contacts between Russia and Ukraine.
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President Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, arrived in Moscow on Thursday after U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi, where a large prisoner exchange was agreed to in principle.
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President Trump said he had “an excellent conversation” with Qatar’s prime minister about Iran, and that a nuclear weapon for Iran is “non-negotiable.”
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Israel’s security cabinet instructed the military to step up preparations for a possible attack on Iran, Israeli public broadcaster KAN reported, as President Trump said Iran “cannot have a Nuclear Weapon.”