Trump also allegedly said Obama sometimes appeared as Biden in a "very well made Hollywood mask."

Russia's Putin will travel to Beijing next week to meet China's Xi. The announcement came one day after President Trump returned from his own summit with the Chinese leader.

The decision was announced by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who said the move will help stabilise crude prices which have skyrocketed due to the disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route in the Persian Gulf.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on a two-day trip to Beijing next week, the Kremlin says.

Prince Harry said "America was part of the assurance" of Ukrainian security in words that risk inflaming President Donald Trump.

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, May 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday suggested a Russian missile strike on a Kyiv apartment building that killed 24 people, including three children, could set back efforts to find a peaceful settlement to Moscow's war in Ukraine.

The Russian leader has not yet committed to attend the annual gathering of world leaders, which is scheduled for December at the president's Doral golf resort.

Dual insults — one from the US president and another from a Russian commentator — flung at Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni appear to be uniting at least some of her critics behind her.

The FBI plans to question roughly a half-dozen witnesses in its criminal inquiry into ex-CIA Director John Brennan over a U.S. intelligence assessment that found ​Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump,