NewsGlobal tensions rise: Putin and Trump's envoy meet in St. Petersburg. This is what happened overnight
Global tensions rise: Putin and Trump's envoy meet in St. Petersburg. This is what happened overnight
It happened while you were sleeping. Here's what global agencies reported overnight from Friday to Saturday.
- Reuters, citing Russian media, reported that the meeting between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, concluded in St. Petersburg after more than four hours on Friday evening. It was Witkoff's third meeting with Putin since February, and it was organized in the presidential library in St. Petersburg.
- On Friday, the Finnish parliament unanimously approved a government bill prohibiting the purchase of real estate by individuals and entities from countries engaged in aggressive warfare that might pose a security threat to Finland. In practice, this legal change affects Russians and Russian companies.
- The administration of President Donald Trump is considering offering every citizen of Greenland an £8,200 cheque annually as part of a strategy to gain control over the Danish island, which it assigns excellent strategic importance, wrote "The New York Times" on Friday.
- A bomb exploded Friday evening in front of the office building of Hellenic Train, Greece's largest railway operator, in downtown Athens, causing, as the operator reported, only minor damage. There were no casualties. Shortly before the explosion, local media received an anonymous phone call warning of the imminent blast. The media connect the incident to a tragic train disaster two years ago, in which 57 people died.
- Gambia honoured Ukraine's request by appointing a diplomat accredited in Turkey, not Russia, as the non-resident ambassador to Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha informed on the X platform on Friday.
- The Socialist Party (PS), Portugal's largest parliamentary opposition group, leads in the polls ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for 18 May. If the socialists win, they would have little chance of forming a majority government.
- The housing crisis in the Balearic Islands, a Spanish archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea, has reversed migration processes, the Catalan newspaper "La Vanguardia" wrote on Friday. Island residents are moving to mainland Spain, and the population is growing only due to foreigners.
