The two leaders shook hands and shared smiles as they met and gave brief statements before heading in for the talks
Washington threatened a veto if the text spoke of reproductive rights
Rudy Giuliani mounted a combative defence of Trump in Sunday talk show appearances, taking aim at Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators
Mueller report clears Russian collusion claims, but does not exonerate Trump of obstruction of justice.
Putin laid out a series of new measures in his speech to Russia’s two houses of Parliament
Russian authorities have so far refused permission to shoot the bears but are sending a commission to investigate the situation
‘We have failed to hold our African leaders to account,’ writes Mustafa Bothwell Mheta
The New York Times reported that the FBI launched a counterintelligence investigation to determine whether Trump posed a national security threat
Two new reports say Russian disinformation campaign on US social media is much more far-reaching than initially thought
New calculations by the UN’s top science panel sharply reduce the real-world potential for drawing CO2 out of the air
The EU launched a joint multi-billion-euro defence fund last year designed to develop Europe’s military capacities
Facebook says it has blocked some 30 accounts on its platform and 85 more on Instagram after police warned they may be linked to ‘foreign entities’
More than 70% of Earth’s last untouched wilderness lies in the territories of just five countries
The case against Eduard Nikitin is part of a wider trend that has seen Russian authorities bring charges against people for innocuous posts
The social network says it removed more than 650 pages, groups and accounts
They promise the earth and never deliver, but sometimes the world’s leaders give us the sun, the moon and the stars
An explainer on what constitutes as cyberwar
Facebook shut down 32 fake pages and accounts involved in an apparent ‘coordinated’ effort to stoke hot-button issues ahead of midterm US elections
From Putin’s point of view, Russia is playing defence
The bloc is concerned by the US president’s unilateral measures that are incompatible with the World Trade Organisation rules
The indictments are an important step in the effort to determine what happened during the 2016 US elections
France have been crowned World Cup champions for the second time in their history after beating Croatia 4-2 in the final in Moscow
Football fever has slowly built over the last four weeks as the country took its young national team to heart
‘The truth is that the likes of France continue to benefit from migration while still waging a war on migrants’
A great deal of hope was placed on a few outstanding African players whose abilities did not blossom at the world cup
Wiltshire police said they initially suspected that the two had fallen ill after using ‘possibly heroin or cocaine from a contaminated batch of drugs’
Rather than accepting the competition that comes with pluralism, the Kremlin is intent on rigging the rules of politics
A two-thirds majority, minus any abstentions, is needed for Britain’s draft to pass
Russia coach Stanislav Cherchesov was bullish ahead of the match in Saint Petersburg that his team can rein in the explosive striker.
Mexico stunned World Cup holders Germany on Sunday, inflicting a 1-0 defeat that throws the Germans’ title defence into disarray
In the first of a series of columns for the duration of the World Cup, Carlos Amato looks at the prospects ahead of Russia 2018
‘The Fifa World Cup is an extravagant symbol of so much that is wrong with this world. But let’s not kid ourselves: we are going to watch it anyway’