The Kremlin says it hopes the US election shake-up will not shift Trump’s negotiations on Ukraine, as Putin steps up attacks on Ukraine’s economy ahead of fresh peace talks.
China warned of a response and raised serious concern in a call with top US trade officials, putting the sanctions dispute on the agenda ahead of a possible Xi-Trump meeting at APEC.
Russia is upgrading its team for the next three-way round as Budanov prepares to lead Kyiv’s side and Zelenskyy warns that the US plan is dangerous.
Canada’s prime minister said Ottawa welcomes “any moves” to restore free trade, as a top House Democrat pledged to reverse what he called unjustified tariffs.
Accounts differ on whether the Trump ally resigned or was removed, but all tie his fall to a banking scandal that has unsettled the region.
The civil rights chief and the prosecutor who led the ‘grand conspiracy’ probe of Trump’s foes left within days of Republicans losing Congress.
The first lady gathered Russian and Ukrainian officials at the White House following a local ceasefire, and the president then met Putin’s special envoy.
A determination clears the way for sanctions on Cuba’s electronics, manufacturing, maritime and technology sectors, while eight entities, two individuals and five oil tankers were designated.
Lawmakers voted 16-0 with seven abstentions for an agreement that expands the US military footprint and would survive Greenlandic independence.
Working-level negotiations on 10 to 11 November will cover post-war security, de-escalation and humanitarian issues, restarting a process suspended by the war in Iran.
The State Department talks with Oliver Blanco are described as the first high-level diplomatic meeting of their kind, as interim President Delcy Rodríguez vows to hold elections.
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff raised the idea in Moscow and Kyiv in September as an incentive for Russia to stop fighting.
The Canadian prime minister reported progress in stalled talks two days before the US midterms and ahead of Canada’s budget day, as US officials pushed back on a Canadian claim.
Rubio opened the foreign ministers’ meeting with a call for cooperation on shipping and economic security, but divisions over Ukraine and Iran dominated the first day.
Canada and the European Union are seeking a broader alliance as US trade tensions escalate, with Ottawa pitching European ties as a way to strengthen its sovereignty.
The UN General Assembly condemned the embargo for the 34th year, but Washington persuaded more nations to oppose or sit out the vote.
Relief for the Russian Direct Investment Fund would extend a run of concessions to Moscow, as Russian diesel tankers head for US ports and business deals feature in the peace talks.
The White House cast the tanker’s arrival as proof its Venezuela oil deal will lower fuel costs, as Rubio joined the campaign trail and pressed for new Venezuelan elections.
The agreement comes as Abu Dhabi’s crown prince visits Ottawa and the Gulf state looks to invest billions in Canada.
A senior Trump administration official confirmed the visas as Brazilian authorities questioned the defeated candidate’s whereabouts.
The truce appears to be holding, but neither Russia nor Ukraine has said how long it will last, and earlier limited ceasefires quickly unravelled.
The defeated candidate failed to surrender his passports, police said, while his party broke with him and accepted Lula’s victory.
Ambassador Mike Waltz and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla clashed on the General Assembly floor as members prepared to vote on the annual resolution against the embargo.
The surprise result derailed about $6 billion of planned share sales, while Trump echoed Flávio Bolsonaro’s fraud claims without citing evidence.
The B.C. Conservatives’ landslide defeat of David Eby’s government is read both as a boost to the prime minister’s energy ambitions and as a warning to him.
The opposition leader came home to cheering crowds after a year abroad, as the US secretary of state claimed her return was the result of Washington’s policy.
Brazil’s leftist incumbent beat the son of Jair Bolsonaro in Sunday’s runoff, unsettling markets and denying the Trump administration a close ally in Latin America.
The president says an agreement with Denmark put Greenland under US control, a claim several reports describe as false, as he touts oil exploration on the island.
Voting in Brazil’s presidential runoff was extended on Sunday in a knife-edge contest that will decide whether Latin America’s largest economy moves further to the right.
As Brazilians choose between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro, an investigation says two US State Department officials led an effort to return the right-wing family to power.
Speaking in Istanbul, the prime minister said a trade deal could be signed ‘this afternoon’, and criticised the US ambassador to Canada.
The cargo follows the president’s 16 October decision to waive new Russia sanctions and buy Moscow’s diesel, but it will not arrive before the midterms.
Russia and Ukraine agreed to pause military action in the town to let in aid and evacuate civilians, according to the White House.
Foreign diplomats are discussing quick recognition of the winner, who will have to balance ties with China and the United States.
The backlash and a deadly Russian attack came as Putin said talks must focus on security for Russia, Ukraine and Europe as a whole.
The embassy cited Canada’s targeted retaliatory tariffs as evidence of influence; Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is not getting involved.
Washington’s envoy presented an updated peace proposal in St Petersburg, while Putin floated a meeting with Trump in China and offered help on Iran.
Brussels plans shared icebreakers, military rail and a cable linking Greenland to Europe, after Moscow’s build-up and Washington’s designs on the island.
Trump’s envoys are meeting Ukraine’s president and European leaders in Norway, as Rubio tries to reassure Kyiv that Washington has not turned against it.
Latin American currencies were mixed as a tight race kept investors on edge.
London says it takes a different view, Ottawa’s former finance minister accuses the president of siding with Moscow, and Paris warns about trust.
Katie Zacharia was pushed out on Friday, and reports that Susie Wiles could be replaced drew a flat denial from the president.
The secretary of state says the waiver is a pause to analyse the economic impact, while House Republicans threaten defence money over it.
Senior lawmakers from both parties condemned the executive order on Saturday, and Ukraine’s president said the decision rewards Moscow.
An executive order signed on Friday suspends the sanctions and tariffs that the Graham Act was about to impose on Russia and on the countries buying its energy.
Kyiv has restarted attacks on Russian energy infrastructure after telling Washington it was finished with the diesel truce, and the White House denies disrupting its satellite service.
American negotiators proposed releasing some immobilised Russian sovereign assets into a vehicle controlled by Washington, and European delegates rejected it.
At an Alaska rally the president announced long-term gas purchase commitments from Taiwan and South Korea, claims the governments involved described in more cautious terms.
A Russian envoy framed the fuel agreement as a first step toward broader economic ties as Italy’s prime minister criticised it in public.
A majority in the Arctic island’s parliament leaned towards the deal while its foreign minister said trust with the United States needs rebuilding.
The president said he made the deal for the American people; lawmakers in both parties say it hands Moscow a lifeline.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had already violated the halt to energy strikes announced by Donald Trump, Russia hit a Ukrainian power plant hours after the announcement, and the United Kingdom, Germany and Poland restated their support for the Ukrainian president.
An Associated Press report describes free community pharmacies filling the gap as medicines grow scarce, while blackouts continue across the island.
The president says attacks on energy infrastructure stop at once, Ukraine’s president says the announcement was news to him, and a Republican senator says the underlying diesel deal may be unlawful.
The government has moved to emergency powers while the canal authority says locks and transits came through intact.
Moscow says the export ban is gone, Washington has tapped its reserve, and Republicans in midterm races are breaking with the president over it.
The US has suspended its Russian diesel sanctions until 7 April 2027, and Trump is now demanding that Ukraine change president and stop striking Russian refineries.
The canal authority said the waterway was operating as usual after one of the country’s worst recorded quakes, though a shipping publication reported the impact as not yet clear.
The president lifted sanctions on Russian diesel after a call with Vladimir Putin, and Kyiv called the decision a birthday present for Moscow.
Cargoes worth about three million dollars were taken at Florida and Texas ports as Washington tightens its energy blockade of the island.
A runoff against Lula follows a right-wing congressional sweep that investors are reading as a path to fiscal reform.
Brazilian stocks surged after Flavio Bolsonaro finished ahead of President Lula da Silva in the first round, sending the race to a runoff.
The senator took 47.03% of the first-round vote against 45.16% for the incumbent, forcing a second round on 25 October.
The presidential race pits the incumbent against a Trump-aligned senator, with spending rules and the US relationship at stake.
Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro are effectively tied going into Sunday’s first round, after Trump put tariffs on Brazilian goods and called the vote very important.
Washington told European capitals to open their emergency diesel stocks or face a ban on US exports; Trump has since said there will be no ban.
Neither candidate appears likely to win outright in the first round, and President Donald Trump says he is watching closely.
US officials told France and Germany to release stocks, and European governments agreed on what they called an assertive response.
The canal authority will raise Neopanamax slots from nine to ten a day and restore a deeper draft from the middle of October.
From 15 October the canal will offer 33 daily transit slots and allow deeper-laden ships, after rainfall restored water levels.
The trilateral pact lets Washington build two new military bases on Greenland while leaving the island under Danish sovereignty.
The president said he does not think the military will be needed, days after telling the United Nations that Cuba’s government will fail.
The security agreement signed in New York opens two military sites and expands Arctic access, while Denmark says Washington will have to pay for them.
The Washington summit extended the truce that ended last year’s trade war to January 10 but produced none of the broader detail markets had been primed for.
The two leaders opened a state visit heavy on ceremony, extending their economic truce by two months while leaving artificial intelligence, fentanyl and the South China Sea unresolved.
The pact expands American military access in Greenland while leaving the territory under Danish sovereignty.
The agreement grants Washington permanent basing rights on the semi-autonomous Danish territory while stopping well short of the ownership President Trump had demanded.
The accord ends a months-long standoff and paves the way for two new US military bases on the island.
A months-long fight over US control of Greenland ends in an agreement granting Washington permanent military rights on the island.
Two American military sites are to open on the island under an agreement Washington describes as giving it permanent control over Greenland’s security.
The agreement expands the US military presence on the island and places Arctic security under NATO oversight, and thinly traded Greenland names moved violently on the news.
The canal authority is capping vessel crossings and rationing slots while Hormuz stays shut, pushing freight costs through two routes at once.
Washington gains an expanded military footprint on the island while Copenhagen and Nuuk say sovereignty is untouched, and the two descriptions do not match.
The island lost power nationwide on Friday, in an outage that reports count as either the sixth or the seventh of the year.
Trump claims permanent control over the island’s security; Copenhagen and Nuuk say sovereignty is untouched.
Brussels floated associate status for Ottawa, and Washington answered with a threat to tariff Europe and halt trade.
The European Commission’s proposal drew a tariff threat the same day Washington moved to strip Canadian goods from federal procurement.
The European Commission president proposed a first-of-its-kind arrangement that would pull Ottawa deeper into Europe’s economic and security architecture.
The waterway is tightening capacity for a second time this year, adding a third chokepoint to a shipping map already squeezed at Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb.
The president says Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy are raising fuel prices and hurting the world economy.
The president’s public request ties a Ukrainian war aim directly to the price of refined fuel.
The canal authority is rationing slots into next year, putting up to US$10 billion of Caribbean imports at risk.
Forecasters say the pattern is nearing record strength, and the drought is already curbing traffic through a chokepoint that carries about 5 percent of ocean shipping.
The canal’s new administrator says ship numbers could fall further as El Nino drains the freshwater that fills the locks.
Ursula von der Leyen announced a partnership package for Greenland in Nuuk on the same weekend the US president posted maps showing the American flag over Canada, Mexico and the island.
Ilya Espino de Marotta took charge of the waterway on Monday as low water restricts transits and the fix for it remains five years out.
The canal’s administrator says daily transits could fall to 27 from the current reduced 32, while better-than-expected water levels have pushed a planned draft cut back again.