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Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday said that he will discuss buying U.S. weapons with Donald Trump at the G7 summit, but added that U.S. military aid was not on the agenda.
"We are not talking to America today about new assistance. Indeed, one of the issues I will discuss with President Trump at the meeting is the defense package that Ukraine is ready to buy," Zelensky said during a visit to Vienna, from where he is set to travel to Canada for this week's G7 summit.
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Russia said Monday that the United States had cancelled a fresh round of talks on normalizing the operations of their embassies.
"The next meeting... has been cancelled at the initiative of the American negotiators. We hope that the pause they have taken will not be too long," Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Monday for an "immediate" end to fighting between Israel and Iran in a phone conversation, the Kremlin said.
"The leaders called for an immediate end to hostilities and the settlement of contentious issues, including those related to Iran's nuclear program, exclusively through political and diplomatic means," the Kremlin said in its readout of the call.
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Turkey is ready to play a "facilitating role" to end the conflict between arch foes Israel and Iran, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Iranian counterpart in a phone call on Monday, his office said.
During the call with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Erdogan said: "Turkey is ready to play a facilitating role for the immediate end of the conflict and return to nuclear negotiations," according to his office.
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Iran on Monday accused Israel of targeting a hospital in the country's west, condemning it as a "war crime".
"Farabi Hospital in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran was targeted by the Israeli regime's aggressive attacks," said foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei, adding that "attacking hospitals alongside attacks on residential areas is a gross violation of international law and a war crime".
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France on Monday blocked access to the stands of five Israeli arms manufacturers at the Paris Air show for displaying "offensive weapons", according to a French government source.
A black wall blocked off stands run by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Rafael, Uvision, Elbit and Aeronautics for showing "offensive weapons", including those used in Gaza, which allegedly violated terms made with Israel, said the source.
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Russia has returned 1,245 bodies to Ukraine, Kyiv said Monday, the final stage of a deal to repatriate more than 6,000 killed soldiers that was agreed at peace talks in Turkey earlier this month.
"Another 1,245 bodies returned to Ukraine: repatriation part of Istanbul agreements has been completed," the government agency coordinating the repatriation said in a statement, with Ukraine's defense minister adding Kyiv has received more than 6,000 bodies in total over the past week.
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The Iranian president on Monday urged all citizens to put aside differences and unite against Israel as conflict rages between the two arch-foes.
"Every difference, issue, and problem that has existed must be put aside today and we must stand strong against this genocidal criminal aggression with unity and coherence," Masoud Pezeshkian said, addressing parliament.
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Iranian missiles have killed at least 24 people in Israel since Friday, the Israeli prime minister's office said in an updated toll following the latest attacks.
The toll issued on Monday includes 11 deaths recorded since midnight, the office said, including four in Petakh Tikva near Tel Aviv, three in Haifa and one in the Bnei Brak suburb of Tel Aviv. It also includes two bodies retrieved following a previous strike on Bat Yam and one more killed in an unspecified location.
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Iran's chief justice Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei on Monday vowed swift trials for people arrested on suspicion of collaborating with Israel, as intense fighting raged between the two sides.
"If someone is arrested for having ties to and collaborating with the Zionist regime, their trial and punishment should be carried out and announced very quickly, in accordance with the law and given the war conditions," Ejei said, quoted by Tasnim news agency.
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