Four senior members of Donald Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just as Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job.

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Donald Trump tried and failed to find a chink in the EU’s armor through a trade war in his first term.

But now he’s found a more vulnerable spot: The massive security crisis he’s engineered by withdrawing US support for Ukraine is exposing potentially lethal cracks in the 27-nation bloc.

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The EU will pause the planned release of a long-awaited proposal to end its reliance on Moscow's fossil fuels and nuclear technology, as US President Donald Trump seeks to normalize relations with Russia and impose his version of peace in Ukraine.

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The EU is discussing emissions rules with US oil and gas firms as industry pressure mounts to eradicate barriers to buying more fuel in a trade deal with President Donald Trump.

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Intelligence sharing among NATO countries is in danger as members become increasingly wary of one another, and the earthquake unleashed by Donald Trump risks making things worse, current and former alliance and security officials from across the alliance told us.

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France is providing intelligence to Ukraine despite the Trump administration's decision to stop doing so, French Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu said today.

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The night after the US stopped sharing all intelligence with Ukraine, the Russian army attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown of Kryvyi Rih with ballistic missiles, killing at least four people and injuring more than 30 others.

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All 27 EU leaders have now arrived at today's special summit in Brussels, as the bloc tries to agree on a new defense plan and show support for Ukraine.

Von der Leyen told reporters that it's "a watershed moment for Europe."

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The British government stressed that the US remains a “reliable ally,” amid questions in London about the future of the country’s jointly-maintained nuclear deterrent under Donald Trump.

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Hugs. Photo ops. A pledge to keep arming Ukraine.

Despite everything that's happened in the six short weeks since Donald Trump returned to the White House, that's about all EU leaders had to offer Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at an emergency summit in Brussels yesterday.

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Yesterday, all 27 EU leaders agreed to do exactly what Donald Trump has been demanding for years: Radically increase their defenses with investment — potentially totaling €800 billion.

But the reality is that for all the EU’s efforts, the real conversations about Ukraine and European security are taking place elsewhere.

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Even European countries far from the Ukraine war must face up to the threat posed by Russia and meet defense spending pledges, Estonia's prime minister told us.

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Jordan has led hundreds of humanitarian operations in Gaza since the start of Israel’s war on the enclave following the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks.

But its latest undertaking is different — it’s part of an attempt by Amman to build good will and dissuade Donald Trump from displacing millions of Palestinians by doubling down on its efforts to help Gaza residents after 15 months of war.

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Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is promising a constitutional revolution to allow Germany to become Europe’s unlikely big spender — on arms and infrastructure — to contend with a new world order in which America is no longer a dependable ally.

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Every man in Poland will undergo military training as part of an effort to build a 500,000-strong military to face off the threat from Russia, Prime Minister Donald Tusk told the parliament today.

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Cracks are appearing in the European Central Bank's united front as the urgent need for cash to rearm Europe threatens to overpower legalistic and technocratic concerns about how the single currency should be managed.

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COMMENTARY: “You don’t have the cards,” Donald Trump taunted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Arguably, though, the US president is the one snatching away any cards Ukraine did possess, single-handedly pushing the country into its most perilous time since the all-out invasion began in February 2022.

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Romania, a country of 19 million people bordering Ukraine, is now at the center of a transatlantic dispute between allies of US president Donald Trump and European centrists who fear a crucial election is being manipulated by Moscow.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government expelled a British diplomat and the spouse of another today, after accusing them of spying.

It’s the twist in a long-running, tit-for-tat row between London and Moscow.

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European NATO members have become even more dependent on US weapons than before, according to a report released today.

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