Ukraine, Putin and Trump
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Poland is set to hold a presidential runoff election on Sunday between two candidates offering starkly different visions for the country’s future.
Trump has repeatedly told reporters he will decide what to do in Ukraine in two weeks, but has yet to make a final call.
As negotiations to end the war in Ukraine stall, the Trump administration is turning to the Middle East to fulfill the president’s vow to be a global peacemaker.
Trump’s approval rating in NH has declined in the last month, as most Granite Staters disapprove of Trump’s handling of economy and foreign policy.
A top Kremlin aide has accused Donald Trump of being “not sufficiently informed” about the situation in Ukraine after the US president said Russian leader Vladimir Putin was “playing with fire.”
“Russia has one of the lowest projected long-term growth rates and one of the highest levels of country risk in the world,” says Heli Simola, senior economist at the Bank of Finland in a blog post. “Only Belarus offers an equally lousy combination of growth and risk.”
President Donald Trump hinted on Friday that Israel and Hamas are close to another ceasefire, as Israeli ground operations intensify in Gaza. During a Friday Oval Office press conference, Trump said the adversaries were “very close” to another ceasefire,
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