MOSCOW—President Vladimir Putin is open to talks on a possible settlement to the conflict in Ukraine and believes in a diplomatic solution, the Kremlin said on Friday after Joe Biden suggested he was prepared to speak to the Russian leader. Biden, speaking beside French President Emmanuel Macron, said the only way to end the war…

When President Barack Obama received his Nobel Peace Prize less than 11 months after his inauguration in 2009, supposedly for, among other things, establishing “a new climate in international politics” in which “dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts,” the young, new president with close to zero…

Britain should be more confident and stop “self-lacerating”, the outgoing Australian High Commissioner has said. George Brandis, who has been Australia’s representative in London since 2018, said the UK was much more highly respected around the world than many in Britain realised. He told an event hosted by the British Foreign Policy Group think tank…

At American-Ukrainian gatherings in recent weeks, the conversations always turn serious. Even at the usually jovial pre-Lenten dinner dance in Bridgeville, hosted last weekend by the Ukrainian community of western Pennsylvania, faces carried signs of worry for their homeland. At the more than 30 Ukrainian churches in the region, many held vigils praying for peace in…

OTTAWA—Canada’s foreign affairs minister says the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine remains high as cyberattacks undermined earlier optimism Tuesday that the Kremlin might be drawing down its military forces. “The latest information I have is that the threat is real and imminent,” Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly told The Canadian Press Tuesday. “Everybody’s…

Canada’s former ambassador to China recently accepted a top appointment with a mining giant which does over half of its sales in China. Now, two MPs are asking the Ethics Commissioner to probe the issue to determine if any conflict of interest rules were broken. NDP MPs Heather McPherson and Matthew Green wrote a letter…

Canada’s former ambassador to China recently accepted a top appointment with a mining giant which does over half of its sales in China. Now, two MPs are asking the Ethics Commissioner to probe the issue to determine if any conflict of interest rules were broken. NDP MPs Heather McPherson and Matthew Green wrote a letter…

News Analysis Canada’s Trade Minister Mary Ng made a diplomatic push in Washington last week, meeting with U.S. senators ahead of their vote on a piece of legislation that is dividing Americans and could considerably impact Canada’s auto sector. The delegation of opposition MPs, Canadian consuls from across the United States, and business and labour…

BAGHDAD—Several Middle Eastern leaders and French President Emmanuel Macron met in Baghdad on Saturday at a summit hosted by Iraq, which wants its neighbors to talk to each other instead of settling scores on its territory. Relationships within the region are strained chiefly by hostility between Iran on one side and the United States and…

Arizona state Sen. Sonny Borrelli, a retired U.S. Marine, is requesting that the Arizona attorney general investigate the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors’ (BOS) non-compliance with the latest subpoenas for the 2020 election audit. This could result in 10 percent (roughly $61 million) of the BOS’s shared state revenue being withheld—possibly prompting it to rethink…