The Kremlin has played down talk of an imminent summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, as Donald Trump renewed his call for the two leaders to meet to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
The push for a bilateral meeting comes after the US president met Putin in Alaska last week, and welcomed seven European leaders and Zelensky to the White House on Monday.
Trump admitted the conflict was “a tough one” to solve and conceded it was possible the Russian president was not interested in ending hostilities.
“We’re going to find out about President Putin in the next couple of weeks,” he said on Tuesday. “It’s possible that he doesn’t want to make a deal.”
Putin faced a “rough situation” if that were the case, Trump added, without offering any details.
Despite initially pushing for a three-way summit with Putin and Zelensky,Trump is now suggesting “it would be better” if the two leaders initially met without him.
He added that he would attend a meeting with the two leaders “if necessary”, but wanted to “see what happens”.
The Russian president told Trump on Monday that he was “open” to the idea of direct talks with Ukraine, but the next day Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov watered down that already vague commitment.
Any meeting would have to be prepared “gradually… starting with the expert level and thereafter going through all the required steps”, he said, repeating a frequent noncommittal Kremlin line.
Dmitry Polyanskiy, a Russian deputy representative to the UN, told the BBC “nobody [had] rejected” the opportunity for direct talks, “but it shouldn’t be a meeting for the sake of a meeting”.
Nato’s military chiefs are expected to hold a virtual meeting on Wednesday, while the UK’s military chief, Admiral Tony Radakin, is travelling to Washington for discussions on the deployment of a reassurance force in Ukraine.
It was reported that Putin had suggested to Trump that Zelensky could travel to Moscow for talks, something Ukraine was never likely to accept.
The proposal may have been Russia’s way of putting forward an option so far-fetched Kyiv could not possibly have agreed to it.
Talks over the last few days appear to have given Trump a renewed understanding of the complexities of the war and the gulf between Moscow’s demands and Kyiv’s position.
The much-vaunted ceasefire he said he could get Putin to agree to has not materialised, and now the US president has said Ukraine and Russia should move directly to a permanent peace deal instead – but some headway was made in terms of security guarantees for Ukraine.
Zelensky and European leaders seem to have convinced Trump that such commitments would be paramount to Kyiv’s sovereignty in the event of a peace deal.
On Tuesday, Trump said the US was willing to help the Europeans “by air” if they provided boots on the ground in Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire or peace deal, although he ruled out deploying US troops.
The US president, however, did not go into the specifics of whether such air support may entail intelligence or the use of fighter jets and war planes.
While Trump’s commitments remain vague, the France and UK-led “coalition of the willing” said it had been working to firm up plans for a reassurance force that could be sent to Ukraine if the hostilities end.
After a virtual meeting of the group on Tuesday, a Downing Street spokesperson said the group would meet US counterparts in the coming days to “further strengthen plans to deliver robust security guarantees”.
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Emmanuel Macron attended the “coalition of the willing” virtual conference on Tuesday
Following his summit with Putin and latest talks with Zelensky, Trump now appears to think direct talks between Ukraine and Russia could bring a peace deal closer – although he acknowledged there had been “tremendous bad blood” between the two leaders.
The last time they met was in 2019. Since then, Moscow’s war on Kyiv has resulted in tens of thousands of casualties as well as widespread destruction and ongoing aerial attacks on civilian targets.
Putin considers Zelensky illegitimate and views him as responsible for Ukraine’s growing proximity to the West. For years, he has made baseless claims about Kyiv being ruled by a “neo-Nazi regime” and has said any ceasefire with Ukraine would need to entail a change in Kyiv’s leadership – while Russian state media routinely mocks Zelensky and calls him a “clown”.
Russia also has little interest in agreeing to talks while its troops have the upper hand on the front line.
Still, European leaders and Zelensky have spoken in favour of the idea of a bilateral meeting. The Ukrainian president said on Monday he was open to “any format” of meeting Putin, while the Europeans have been putting forward ideas for potential summit locations.
French President Emmanuel Macron has mentioned the Swiss city of Geneva, while Budapest has reportedly been floated by Hugarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
However, Orban has maintained close ties with Moscow and has recently pushed the argument that Russia has won the war in Ukraine – so Kyiv may be sceptical that Budapest would offer sufficiently neutral ground.
By enthusiastically supporting direct talks, they are likely hoping to convince Trump to revert to a tougher stance against Moscow should Putin remain unwilling to take steps to end the war.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s European partners appear significantly less optimistic than Trump that a resolution of the conflict could be within reach.
On Tuesday, Macron called Putin “a predator, and an ogre at our doorstep” and expressed “the greatest doubt” that the Russian president was willing to work towards peace.
Finnish President Alexander Stubb said Putin was “rarely to be trusted”, adding he was sceptical about a meeting with Zelensky materialising.
More high-level talks are planned for the coming days as questions over Trump’s level of support for Europe remain.
Pediatric group bucks RFK Jr. on kids’ COVID-19 shots
In a shift away from Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s stance on widespread COVID vaccinations, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that parents vaccinate their children against COVID-19
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended Tuesday that children between 6 months and 23 months old receive the vaccine to protect them against serious illness caused by the virus.
Kids under the age of 2 are especially vulnerable to severe COVID-19, the group said, and should be prioritized for vaccination unless they have an allergy to the jab or its ingredients.
In May, Kennedy announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would no longerrecommend routine COVID-19 shots for healthy children due to a lack of clinical data justifying the need for annual vaccinations against the virus.
But the CDC did not follow Kennedy’s guidance to the letter, instead recommending that parents take part in a “shared decision making” process with health care providers to determine if their child needs the shot.
The AAP and HHS have been at odds for months, and tensions reached a head when Kennedy dismissed all the members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and replaced them with his own handpicked representatives, including some outright vaccine skeptics.
Since it was founded in 1930, the AAP has published evidence-based vaccine guidance to support pediatricians. But it has not traditionally differed substantially from federal recommendations.
The move to publish COVID recommendations that break from HHS reflects a new effort by medical societies and expert advocacy groups to bypass Kennedy and what they say are his efforts to upend the nation’s vaccine system.
With vaccine skeptics in charge of U.S. health care, these groups say they want to give Americans — especially parents — as much information as possible to protect children from disease.
At the same time AAP’s recommendations were released, a group of epidemiologists and infectious diseases experts called the Vaccine Integrity Project held essentially their own version of an ACIP meeting to review evidence on the safety and efficacy for flu, COVID and RSV shots.
Members of the initiative said ACIP usually reviews guidelines for respiratory virus vaccines during the summer, but has not appeared to have done it this year. In its absence, the initiative was stepping in.
The panel concluded there was no change in safety signals or sudden drop in efficacy on any of the vaccines reviewed.
“There is no scientific evidence to support the changes HHS made to COVID recommendations for pregnant women or for children most at risk for high-risk transmission of severe disease,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, who is leading the initiative.
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Imogen Farmer was taken shopping in London as a reward for her A-level grades last year
Hundreds of thousands of GCSE students are nervously waiting for their results this week – and for some, a shiny, often expensive reward might be at stake.
Ahead of results day on Thursday, BBC News has spoken to students and parents about whether the promise of jewellery, gifts or cash for grades can actually motivate teens to do better in their exams.
Imogen Farmer, from Essex, was taken with her twin sister to London by their parents after they got their A-level results last year and given some money to spend as a reward.
“I bought Vivienne Westwood jewellery and then they took us to quite a fancy restaurant that we’d always wanted to go to,” Imogen says.
“But I think I knew in the back of my head if I did well or even if I didn’t do well, I’m sure our parents would have taken us out anyway for working hard.”
Imogen doesn’t think the reward would have made a difference to the amount she studied as she was always “quite ambitious” – and her parents didn’t mention it until after her exams were over.
Jess Cooper, from Birmingham, jokes that her reward was “not getting kicked out of the house”.
“Good grades were a reflection of how hard you tried at school,” she says.
“My parents are very proud of me and tell me all the time. I’m very working class, we have the grit and we try our hardest.”
Both Imogen and Jess both say some students in their classes were offered money for each top grade they achieved – while others were even promised “first cars” if they got the results they needed.
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Student Jess Cooper believes for those that don’t like school, rewards could make them more motivated
Some parents believe the offer of a reward or financial incentive can help with motivation.
Leon Smith, from Surrey, has given his children a £50 reward for passing their exams, saying it helps them get into the right mindset beforehand.
“It means that, when they revise, they have the motivation and they will spend an extra hour looking at their books rather than playing video games”, the father-of-six explains.
He says his son Isiah, who has just finished Year 6 and took his Sats earlier this year, was particularly motivated to do well after watching his older sister Reah receive the £50 prize the year before.
“It gives them some form of incentive and the ability to work towards something,” Leon says.
He now plans to offer rewards for his children at GCSE and A-levels too.
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Leon Smith plans to offer a financial reward to his children at GCSE and A-levels to help their motivation
Mum-of-two Elaine Dean, from Manchester, says the promise she made of cash-for-grades ended up costing her “more than anticipated”.
The former primary school teacher decided to give her son Zach between £5 and £15 based on each grade for his GCSE exams two years ago, but she says she was really rewarding his effort.
“You don’t want to build up too much pressure on them, praise and parental involvement throughout their school years is far more important,” she says.
Zach received his A-level exam results on Thursday.
“I think his reward is going to be a city break with his brother but he hasn’t decided yet.”
Do rewards for good grades work?
Experts say the effectiveness of rewards very much depends on the student and their relationship with learning.
Rewarding effort rather than grades can be a far more long-term and sustainable strategy for parents, according to psychologist Natasha Tiwari.
“Cash or big-ticket treats can work in the short term,” she says, but they also risk making students think of achievements as “transactional”.
She believes a special day out, or being allowed to redecorate their bedroom or host some family or friends can be a far more powerful reward than “cash in an envelope”.
Different rewards – or none at all – can create tension within friendship groups too, she says.
“There is a distinction to be made between a reward for good grades and a treat to acknowledge their effort,” says Manny Botwe, president of the Association of School and College Leaders.
Secondary school head Manny says he is sceptical of the long-term benefits of trying to reward performance.
“I worry about the youngsters who don’t get good results, it’s ‘deal or no deal’,” he says.
“My advice for parents would be not to make their children feel their value is directly related to the grades they get. From very early on, I like to emphasis the intrinsic value of education.
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Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) called for “action” from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) amid a redistricting battle in his state.
Johnson on Monday had gone after California Democrats’ proposed House map and said he was taking measures to halt the new congressional lines.
“Democrats across the nation have played politics with redistricting for decades, and this is just the latest example. Republicans who are following state and federal laws will not be lectured by people who abused the system,” Johnson said on social platform X.
“I have instructed the NRCC [National Republican Congressional Committee] to use every measure and resource possible to fight the California Democrats’ illegal power grab,” he continued. “I will continue to lead efforts to defend our House Republican incumbents and grow our majority so that we can continue to deliver on our commonsense, America First agenda.”
“You can stop [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom’s Redistricting Sham and save our taxpayers $250 million by bringing my mid-decade redistricting bill to the Floor,” he added in his Tuesday post on X.
On Monday, California Democrats unveiled legislation to go ahead with their plan to combat a Republican redistricting proposal in Texas with new congressional maps in the Golden State.
“We decided as a delegation that we could not just stand there and allow [President] Trump to distort the next election, and continue to harm the people who we represent. And so we have worked to try and identify a map that is consistent with the goals that we believe in,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said during a press conference.
When reached for comment, Johnson’s office directed The Hill back to Johnson’s post and recent CNN comments from the Louisiana Republican.
The Hill was directed by Newsom’s office to remarks from the governor last Thursday in which he said “the state of California’s going to fund” a special election in November for voters to approve a ballot measure that, in the end, would let Democrats push through a new House map ahead of 2026.
Newsom’s office also highlighted a post on X in which his press office said, “California’s action this week is a DIRECT response to Trump and his lapdogs in Texas.”
LIMA (Reuters) -Peru hopes to increase agricultural investment with a significant reduction in income tax for large export companies, the sector’s minister told Reuters on Monday.
The Peruvian Congress last week passed a law that reduces income tax to 15% from the current 29.5% for large agricultural exporters over the next 10 years. Medium-sized businesses would pay 1.5% income tax, while small businesses would be exempt from the tax.
Peru expects agricultural sales to surpass mining, considered the country’s economic engine, by 2050. Peru is the world’s third-largest copper producer.
“This will allow us to attract investment,” said Agriculture Minister Ángel Manero in a telephone interview, of the new law.
The country recorded $12.8 billion in agricultural exports last year, and Manero expects increased fruit shipments to drive sales to about $15 billion by 2025.
The star product of Peruvian agricultural exports is blueberries, which are exported primarily to the United States and Europe. Minister Manero also highlighted the sharp increase in sales of table grapes, avocados, cocoa, and mangos.
Peru has a portfolio of approximately $24 billion in largely public-private irrigation projects to expand its agricultural area, primarily on the country’s coast, to more than 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres). Manero said that eight projects worth $11 billion have been launched from that portfolio.
Manero noted that the next market to conquer is India, with which a free trade agreement is expected to be signed this year. Peru last week announced a new trade deal with Indonesia.
With Petchey making it clear he was unwilling to sacrifice his role as a television commentator to coach on a full-time basis, Raducanu continued to assess her options.
Roig’s availability came to attention over the summer and the pair worked together in a covert trial following Wimbledon.
Raducanu likes to learn and once put her high turnover of coaches down to asking “provoking” questions. She found Roig’s sessions to be stimulating, challenging and instantly encouraging.
“Francis is very passionate for tennis,” said Vilaro.
“What’s amazing is he can watch a match on TV and he doesn’t care about the result – he’s checking how they are moving, the positioning and how they are hitting the ball. He’s watching many specific things.
“When we created the academy he said, ‘I want to do it but I don’t want any paperwork. I just want to be on the court’. The court is his passion.”
Raducanu has already impressed Roig with her work ethic.
In his first tournament at the helm, the pair had multiple daily practices at the Cincinnati Open, where she confidently breezed past Serbia’s Olga Danilovic before – more notably – pushing world number one Aryna Sabalenka to her limit.
While Raducanu fell short of a shock, it was a promising performance which provides optimism for the US Open.
“I spoke to Francis after Raducanu beat Danilovic and before she played Sabalenka,” said Vilaro.
“He said, ‘It’s amazing, I like working with this player a lot because she loves to be on court. We spent two hours training the return, the return plus second shot and what to do when the opponent attacks’.
“He enjoyed it a lot. The most important thing for him is having a player who loves being on court – and it looks like this is the case.”
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Trump administration weighs Intel stake
The Trump administration is considering taking a stake in Intel as a means of boosting the struggling U.S. chipmaker, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Tuesday.
Lutnick indicated the money for the stake would come from previously allocated Biden-era funding. Media reports have suggested the government is considering a 10 percent stake using CHIPS and Science Act grants.
“The president figures out that we should get, America should get the benefit of the bargain,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
“I mean, that is exactly Donald Trump’s perspective, which is, why are we giving a company worth $100 billion this kind of money?” he continued. “What is in it for the American taxpayer? And the answer Donald Trump has is we should get an equity state for our money.”
“So we’ll deliver the money which was already committed under the Biden administration,” Lutnick added. “We’ll get equity in return for it, get a good return for the American taxpayer instead of just giving grants away.”
The Commerce secretary’s comments come just less than two weeks after President Trump called on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign.
The president accused Tan of being “highly conflicted” following Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-Ark.) letter to the company, voicing concerns about the CEO’s investments in Chinese companies and his previous role at Cadence Design Systems.
The software firm recently pleaded guilty to violating export controls by selling chip design technology to a Chinese military university during Tan’s tenure.
However, Trump changed his tone after meeting with Tan last week, and reports began emerging that the administration was considering taking a stake in the company.
“The meeting was a very interesting one. His success and rise is an amazing story,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “Mr. Tan and my Cabinet members are going to spend time together, and bring suggestions to me during the next week.”
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Andrew Tate sues Meta and TikTok for ‘deplatforming’
Conservative influencer Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, are suing Meta and TikTok over what they describe as the “unlawful and politically motivated decision” to deplatform the pair on the social media sites. The Tate brothers, who were banned from TikTok and Meta’s Instagram and Facebook in 2022, filed lawsuits against both companies last week, alleging a “coordinated campaign to suppress, silence, and destroy …
Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott (R-S.C.) offered his gratitude to the crypto industry Tuesday for helping to oust former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).
“Thank you to all of y’all for getting rid of Sherrod Brown,” Scott said at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium. “He’s running again, by the way.”
“But literally, the industry put [GOP Sen.] Bernie Moreno in the Senate, and he’s on the banking committee,” he continued. “So really having the opportunity to have a team that’s focusing on the industry because we have a passion for people who want to make a profit and help people.”
Scott, who previously served as head of the Senate Banking Committee, was ousted last year in a race that saw the crypto industry pour in large sums of money.
One crypto-affiliated super PAC spent more than $40 million to defeat the Democratic incumbent, who was seen a barrier to passing digital asset legislation.
It was ultimately the most expensive Senate contest in the country, with both parties spending more than $500 million.
Brown is back in the fray again, launching a comeback bid for Sen. John Husted’s (R-Ohio) seat Monday. He raised more than $3.6 million in the first 24 hours of his campaign.
Plus: Former White House crypto adviser Bo Hines has joined Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, as a strategic adviser for digital assets and U.S strategy after departing the administration earlier this month.
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The US has reached bilateral deportation agreements with Honduras and Uganda as part of its crackdown on illegal immigration, according documents obtained by the BBC’s US partner CBS.
Uganda has agreed to take an unclear number of African and Asian migrants who had claimed asylum on the US-Mexico border, and Honduras will receive several hundred deported people from Spanish-speaking countries, CBS said.
The move is part of an attempt by Donald Trump’s administration to get more countries to accept deported migrants that are not their own citizens.
Human rights campaigners have condemned the policy, saying migrants face the risk of being sent to countries where they could be harmed.
Under the agreement, Uganda has agreed to accept deported migrants as long as they don’t have criminal histories, but it’s unclear how many the country would ultimately take, CBS reported.
Honduras agreed to receive migrants over two years, including families travelling with children, but documents suggest it could decide to accept more.
Both deals are part of the Trump administration’s broader push for deportation arrangements with countries on several continents – including those with controversial human rights records.
So far, at least a dozen nations have agreed to accept deported migrants from other countries.
Last week, the US State Department announced it had signed a “safe third country” agreement with Paraguay to “share the burden of managing illegal immigration”.
The White House has also been actively courting several African nations, with Rwanda saying earlier this month it will take up to 250 migrants from the US.
A condition of the deal specifies that Rwanda would have “the ability to approve each individual proposed for resettlement”, a government spokesperson told the BBC.
Rwanda has previously been criticised for its human rights record, including the risk that those sent to the East African nation could be deported again to countries where they may face danger.
Earlier this year, Panama and Costa Rica agreed to take in several hundred African and Asian migrants from the US.
Government documents show the Trump administration has also approached countries like Ecuador and Spain to receive deported migrants, CBS reported.
Since the start of his second term, Trump has embarked on sweeping efforts to remove undocumented migrants – a key election promise that drew mass support during this campaign.
In June, the US Supreme Court cleared the way for Trump to resume deportations of migrants to countries other than their homeland without giving them the chance to raise the risks they might face.
At the time, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the majority ruling, calling the decision “a gross abuse”.
UN rights experts and human rights groups have also argued that these removals to a nation that is not the migrant’s place of origin could violate international law.
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