Diplomatic, by Laura Rozen

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February 2025

US mum on Russian invasion of Ukraine as Trump seeks deals
Walking from the State Department yesterday, I had the unsettling feeling that we had entered the plot of one of those dystopian alternate history…
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Putin says Trump getting ‘real information’ as Trump lambasts Zelenskyy
“Trump started receiving real information, and it changed his approach,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said of US President Donald Trump adopting…
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Trump turns to Putin before Ukraine on plans for peace talks
There were numerous, ominous signs that Trump was putting Ukraine in a subordinate position to his ambitions to make a peace deal and end the war Russia…
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Iran at standstill on talks with Trump
Flummoxed by mixed messages from the Trump administration, historic distrust and the lack of a US Iran envoy, Iran presses pause on moving forward with…
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Split screen
From close up, here in Washington, D.C., as someone who regularly covers the U.S.
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January 2025

The purge
Trump and Musk aides purge career officials, commandeer sensitive government databases: ‘There is no oversight.’
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Trump turns vs hawkish ex aides as he hopes for deal with Iran
“Trump wants to do a deal,” an Iran democracy activist said. “He got rid of Hook because he was pushing for folks with hawkish views on Iran to get…
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Biden, on reaching Gaza ceasefire, says his and Trump envoys ‘speaking as one team’
“Many peacemakers helped make this deal happen,” President Biden said. It “was developed and negotiated under my administration, but its terms will be…
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Biden says on ‘brink’ of hostage release/Gaza ceasefire deal
“On the war between Israel and Hamas, we are on the brink of a proposal that I laid out in detail months ago finally coming to fruition,” President…
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Five presidents and a funeral
Eleven days before Trump’s second presidential inauguration, it was perhaps slightly comforting to see him seated among the fraternity of former…
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