Might is right: US ‘foreign policy’ held hostage to mad king Trump’s whims

Increasingly unpopular at home, a president obsessed by his legacy has turned his scattergun on the world stage

Catholic cardinals warn US foreign policy under Trump risks global suffering

Church leaders cite Greenland threats, Venezuela action and aid cuts as undermining human dignity and peace

Zelenskyy accuses EU leaders of waiting for direction from Trump

Ukraine president says Europe is in ‘Greenland mode’ and needs to know how to defend itself rather than waiting for US to act

French navy intercepts suspected Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker in Mediterranean

Emmanuel Macron says the oil tanker was boarded and searched ‘subject to international sanctions’

US, Ukraine and Russia delegations head to Abu Dhabi for their first trilateral talks of the war

Friday’s meeting in Abu Dhabi comes after talks between Russian president Vladimir Putin, US envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner

Russia deploys new high-speed drones amid claims they contain western parts

Experts say Geran-5 long-range attack UAVs could pose serious threat to Ukraine’s struggling air defences

Russia launches deadly strikes on Kyiv and Kharkiv ahead of day two of peace talks

Tripartite talks in the United Arab Emirates to resume in wake of missile and drone attacks that have killed one and injured dozens

‘They threw us out like baggage’: Russian family deported from US to Costa Rica still in limbo

Alexander, his wife and son, who fled danger under Putin, fighting for security – and compensation – after torment of migration journey

Bank of Scotland fined £160,000 over account for sanctioned Putin ally

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, who had held senior roles in Russian government, used a variant spelling of his name to access UK banking system

Russian drone strike on Ukrainian passenger train kills five

Volodomyr Zelenskyy describes attack as act of ‘terrorism’ undermining ‘efforts to end the war’

‘Attacks day after day’: Odesa in Russia’s crosshairs as war pivots back to Black Sea

Unable to get near Ukraine’s main port, Moscow is pounding the city from afar with missiles and drones

Russian and Ukrainian military casualties in war nearing 2m, study finds

Thinktank says about 1.2m Russians troops killed, wounded or gone missing to date and 600,000 Ukrainians

Trump claims Putin agreed to halt Ukraine energy strikes amid extreme cold

US president says he made appeal to Russian leader, but no ceasefire has been confirmed by Moscow or Kyiv

Zelenskyy cautious on Russian bombing pause during extreme cold weather

Ukraine president says he will wait to see if Putin complies with Trump request to halt strikes on energy infrastructure

Alarm raised over Chinese CCTV cameras guarding ‘symbol of democracy’ Magna Carta

Campaigners criticise use of ‘vulnerable’ devices at Salisbury Cathedral and Parthenon despite their removal from sensitive UK government sites

Impose sanctions on refineries that buy Russian crude oil to end war, says Bill Browder

Putin critic says plants in China, India and Turkey are funnelling up to $1bn a day to Kremlin

Russian drone attack on bus carrying mine workers in Ukraine kills at least 12

Employees of Ukraine’s largest private energy firm, DTEK, were travelling about 40 miles from frontline, says police

International law meant to limit effects of war at breaking point, study finds

Report covering 23 conflicts over last 18 months concludes more than 100,000 civilians have been killed as war crimes rage out of control

Thousands without heating on icy night in Ukraine as Russia attacks before talks

Zelenskyy says Putin ‘taking advantage of the coldest days of winter to terrorise people’, as Kyiv hits lows of -20C