The United States and China reached a deal on Monday to suspend heavy tariffs against each other’s imports for 90 days. The recent breakthrough marked a detente in the tariff war launched by US President Donald Trump since he returned to office in January. While Trump initially unveiled tariffs against most countries, he then paused most of them – except against China, the US’s biggest economic rival. Tit-for-tat...

Zelenskyy welcomes the US leader’s initiative, insists Putin should also be in the Turkish city ‘in person’. United States President Donald Trump has offered to join the talks that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin suggested should be held directly with Ukraine, after criticism of the Western “ultimatums” to end the conflict between the two Slavic nations. Trump said on Monday he was “thinking about actually flying over” to the...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) says it is disbanding after more than 40 years of armed struggle against the Turkish state. The announcement came after the PKK held its congress in northern Iraq on Friday, about two months after its imprisoned founder, Abdullah Ocalan, also known as “Appo”, called on the group to disarm in February. For most of its history, the PKK has been labelled a terrorist...