Russia and Ukraine trade long-range strikes hours before U.S.-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi
Russia struck Ukraine's power grid again and Ukrainian forces hit another of Russia's largest oil refineries, officials said Monday, hours before delegations were due to meet for new U.S.-brokered talks on ending the war, the Associated Press reported. AP said the two-day session in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, starting Tuesday is the first time since February that Russian, Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators are scheduled to meet, with security guarantees for both sides topping the agenda. Earlier talks this year produced no visible progress.
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Trump says new Iran strikes 'highly unlikely' while talks progress; Houthis report 44 killed near Sanaa
President Donald Trump said Sunday he was highly unlikely to order fresh attacks on Iran as long as talks to end the conflict progress, Reuters reported, and Trump is set to meet the prime minister of mediator Qatar on Monday. Saudi authorities lifted an alert in Riyadh on Monday, a day after a Houthi attack damaged an Aramco office building in the city, Business Recorder reported. Separately, health authorities run by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels said the death toll from Saturday's airstrikes near the capital, Sanaa, rose to 44, most of them women and children, according to the AP. Iran's foreign ministry dismissed Secretary of State Marco Rubio's comment that Iran's demands for ending the war were "ridiculous," AP said.
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G7 foreign ministers open two days of talks in Paris on Ukraine, Iran, energy and AI
Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven began two days of talks in Paris on Monday, the Associated Press reported, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio expected to face questions about whether the Trump administration will shift its positions on the Russia-Ukraine war, the Iran conflict, energy security and artificial intelligence after Republicans' heavy midterm losses. The G7 includes the U.S., Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan. Reuters reported that oil prices fell more than 3% Monday as efforts to end the Iran war gathered pace.
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