NewsPutin meets Trump's envoy, and global tensions and policies shift. This is what happened in the news overnight
Putin meets Trump's envoy, and global tensions and policies shift. This is what happened in the news 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. This was Witkoff's third meeting with Putin since February, and it was held in the presidential library in St. Petersburg.
- The Finnish parliament unanimously approved a government bill on Friday that prohibits the purchase of real estate by individuals and entities from countries engaged in aggressive warfare and that may pose a security threat to Finland. This legal change primarily affects Russians and Russian companies.
- The administration of President Donald Trump is considering offering every citizen of Greenland a $10,000 check annually as part of a strategy to gain control over the Danish island, which it views as strategically important, reported "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 only minor damage, according to the operator. 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.
- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha announced on the X platform on Friday that Gambia honored Ukraine's request by appointing a diplomat accredited in Turkey, not Russia, as the non-resident ambassador to Ukraine in Kyiv.
- The Socialist Party (PS), Portugal's largest parliamentary opposition group, leads in the polls ahead of the May 18 parliamentary elections. If the socialists win, they would have limited chances of forming a majority government.
- The housing crisis in the Balearic Islands, a Spanish archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea, has reversed migration patterns, the Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia wrote on Friday. Residents are moving to mainland Spain, and the population is growing only due to foreign immigrants.
