Russia has not confirmed it agreed to Trump’s request, but Ukraine’s president said he expected Vladimir Putin’s promise to be kept. Source link

In a contract addressed to Simons, seen by BBC News, APCO Worldwide agreed to investigate “the sourcing, funding and origins” of the Sunday Times reporting, as well the journalist, Paul Holden, who has since published a critical book on Starmer and his former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, and Matt Taibbi, an American reporter. Source…

Katya Adler Europe Editor BBC Something in Europe has snapped. Donald Trump doubled down again on Monday, in his insistence that the US needs Greenland for national security reasons. Is he prepared to use force to seize it, journalists asked him? “No comment,” said the president, sending chills down the spine of Greenland’s anxious inhabitants….

Social media platforms do not want Australia’s landmark social media ban to be successful in case it incentivises other countries to follow suit, the nation’s internet regulator has told the BBC. “These companies have come to this regime, if you will, kicking and screaming – very very reluctantly,” eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said. Australia…