Trump Sees a Good Chance He’ll Meet Putin, Zelenskiy
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Good morning. Donald Trump sees a good chance he’ll meet Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The Bank of England is set to lower interest rates today. And Egypt’s billion-dollar antiquities museum opens in November. Listen to the day’s top stories.
Donald Trump said there was a “very good chance” he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy soon in another bid to broker peace between the two countries. Russia had earlier said Putin exchanged “signals” with the US when talking to Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff.
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