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France steps in to provide military intelligence to Ukraine

France is providing military intelligence to Ukraine after Washington announced it was freezing the sharing of information with Kyiv.

French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said, “Our intelligence is sovereign. We have intelligence that we allow Ukraine to benefit from.”

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Kremlin criticizes Macron’s speech as confrontational

The Kremlin on Thursday dismissed as “extremely confrontational” a speech by Emmanuel Macron, in which the French president called Moscow a “threat” to Europe.

In an address to the nation on Wednesday, Macron also said that he’s ready to start discussions on nuclear deterrence with European allies.

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EU chief executive says Europe has to be able to defend itself

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says “Europe faces a clear and present danger, and therefore Europe has to be able to protect itself, to defend itself.”

Arriving at the EU summit alongside Zelenskyy, von der Leyen said: “This is a watershed moment for Europe and Ukraine as part of our European family. It’s also a watershed moment for Ukraine.”

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EU leaders hold emergency talks on increasing military spending for Ukraine

European Union leaders are holding emergency talks on Thursday on ways to quickly increase their military budgets after the Trump administration signaled that Europe must take care of its own security and also suspended assistance to Ukraine.

In just over a month, President Donald Trump has overturned old certainties about U.S. reliability as a security partner, as he embraces Russia and withdraws American support for Ukraine.

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Macron proposes French nuclear extension, Ukraine troop deployment

President Emmanuel Macron has announced he would discuss extending France's nuclear deterrent to European partners and raised the possibility of sending European troops to Ukraine to enforce a peace deal, as Europe scrambles to respond to Donald Trump's upending of the transatlantic alliance.

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Trump says Zelensky wants peace, ready to accept minerals deal

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky had written to him to say he appreciates U.S. support for his country in its war with Russia and is ready to sign a deal that could ensure future American support.

In a speech to Congress following last week's disastrous meeting at the White House, Trump said Zelensky had told him that Ukraine is ready to negotiate a peace deal with Russia as soon as possible and would accept a critical minerals agreement with the U.S. to facilitate that.

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A look at false and misleading claims made by Trump during his Congress address

President Donald Trump 's Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress highlighted several of the initiatives he's started in his first six weeks in office, but many of his comments included false and misleading information.

Here's a look at the facts.

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Trump gives longest US presidential speech to Congress

Donald Trump gave the longest-ever address to a joint session of Congress by any U.S. president on Tuesday, clocking in at more than one hour and 40 minutes.

Republican Trump's speech beat the previous record set by Democratic President Bill Clinton in his State of the Union address in 2000.

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Greenland leader says island 'is ours' as Trump vows to acquire territory

Greenland's prime minister declared Wednesday that "Greenland is ours" and cannot be taken or bought in defiance of a message from U.S. President Donald Trump, who said his administration supported the Arctic island's right of self-determination — but added that the United States will acquire the territory "one way or another."

Greenlandic Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede said the island's citizens are neither American nor Danish because they are Greenlandic. The United States needs to understand that, he wrote in a post in Greenlandic and Danish on Facebook Wednesday.

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Kremlin says 'positive' about prospect of peace talks with Ukraine

The Kremlin on Wednesday said it was "positive" about comments by U.S. President Donald Trump who said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is "ready" for peace talks with Russia.

"This approach is generally positive," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a conference call in answer to a question from AFP.

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