Russian President Vladimir Putin is traveling to China to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The visit comes less than a week after U.S.

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.

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.

Russia's Sergey Lavrov says Iran has an inalienable right to enrich uranium for civilian purposes, pushing back against Trump's nuclear demands.

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.

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

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.