#peace-negotiations

#peace-negotiations

Germany's foreign minister said on Monday that Qatar, Egypt, Turkey and other Arab states are exerting pressure on militant group Hamas in Gaza to disarm to support further peace negotiations with Israel. "All these states don't want Hamas to continue to be active. They want disarmament and in this respect we have a good pressure scenario, because it won't work without pressure," Minister Johann Wadephul told Deutschlandfunk radio.

We have a great team over there, great negotiators, and they're, unfortunately, great negotiators on the other side also. But it's something I think that will happen, got a good chance of happening. I may go there sometime toward the end of the week, maybe on Sunday, actually, and we'll see, said Trump. But there's a very good chance, negotiations are going along very well. We're dealing with Hamas, and many of the countries.

Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas over the 20-point plan are due to begin in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday. The talks, which come on the eve of the second anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel that led to the war, have raised hopes that the devastating conflict, which has killed tens of thousands in Gaza, could soon end. But at the same time, there are plenty of potential obstacles to sealing a deal.

No other international leader has been as frequent a visitor to the White House during Donald Trump's second term as Benjamin Netanyahu: the Israeli prime minister visited the Oval Office Monday for the fourth time in eight months. None of his previous visits yielded any progress toward peace, and those meetings only served to buy the Israeli leader more time in his deadly offensive in Gaza.

The UK is prepared to provide soldiers to help with logistical support and training in Ukraine, but will not deploy them close to Russia.

After all the hype around the Alaska summit, all we got was a 12-minute press conference that said very little of substance. No end to the war, no sanctions.

Every meeting, every minute this meeting continues is a great thing towards peace, right? However, my initial take is that Putin's word can never be trusted.

Numerous villagers who spoke to DW told of family members being abducted and killed. Their livelihoods, which primarily consist of farming sorghum, millet, and livestock, and then trading their produce in nearby market towns, have been severely disrupted.