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Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy holds talks in Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia on ‘security and energy’
Ukraine ‘actively developing’ regional security arrangements for defence, food and energy, Zelenskyy says; Russia and Ukraine swap prisoners. What we know on day 1,522

US envoy and Trump’s son-in-law to travel to Pakistan amid hopes for renewed Iran peace talks – as it happened
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to travel to Pakistan, White House says; Iranian state media says foreign minister Abbas Araqchi traveling to Islamabad, Muscat and Moscow

Trump sending Witkoff and Kushner to Pakistan to resume talks on Iran war
White House says its Middle East envoys will meet Tehran’s foreign minister in Islamabad

Syria arrests suspected leader of Tadamon massacre
Amjad Youssef is one of most-wanted fugitives in relation to slaughter of estimated 288 civilians under Assad

‘No clear strategy’: how Trump went from shock and awe to wait and see in Iran
Lack of a sustained plan to end the war has convinced US allies that the White House is running out of ideas

Shapeshifting fascism and the broken promises of social democracy | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to Daniel Trilling’s article asking if fascism is making a comeback

Those who cannot remember the past | Brief letters
Brief letters: British colonial history | Starmer’s premiership | Chelsea sacking | Kakistocracies

Berlin culture minister resigns over irregular distribution of funds to fight antisemitism
Auditor found Sarah Wedl-Wilson approved payments of public money to groups that had not been fully vetted

EU leaders look to little-known mutual assistance pact amid Trump Nato jibes
Members to plan how to assist each other in event of attack as transatlantic alliance faces worst crisis in its history



