One of the biggest “what ifs” in Ultimate Fighting Championship history has officially returned. Former top UFC featherweight contender Zabit Magomedsharipov has remained largely out of the public eye for almost a decade. Now he’s returning to combat sports, but not in the way many expected. Advertisement On Monday (February 16, 2026), it was announced…
Donald Trump no longer plans to meet Vladimir Putin in Hungary, the White House confirmed. The US president will not meet the Russian leader in the “immediate future” after a phone call between negotiators from both countries to prepare for peace talks went sour. On Thursday, Trump said he would meet Putin in Budapest once…
By Nandita Bose and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pledged to stop buying oil from Russia, and Trump said he would try to get China to do the same as Washington steps up efforts to cut off Moscow’s energy revenues. India…
By Vladimir Soldatkin, Andrew Osborn and Suleiman Al-Khalidi MOSCOW (Reuters) – Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that he would honor all previous agreements reached between his country and Moscow, a promise that suggests Moscow’s two main military bases in Syria are safe. Sharaa, who once headed al Qaeda’s Syrian…
(Reuters) – Ukraine’s foreign minister on Sunday accused Russia of deliberately cutting the external power line to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to connect the plant to Moscow’s power grid. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Moscow was trying to test a reconnection to the Russian network. Ukraine has long feared that Moscow will…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Sunday that Russia was deeply concerned about the possibility of the United States supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, warning that the war had reached a dramatic moment with escalation on all sides. US President Donald Trump said on Monday that before agreeing to provide Tomahawks, he would like…
By Andrés Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Two months after a smiling Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin shook hands at a military base in Alaska in what appeared to be the start of a rapprochement between the United States and Russia, a senior Russian diplomat has raised doubts that the “spirit of Alaska” is still alive….
