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Finnish Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, says Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shown that Europe is too reliant on the United States for its own security.

The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to negotiations on Ukraine but the West must accept Moscow's demands.

Russia says it pulled out of nuclear talks with U.S officials scheduled for Cairo this week owing to toxic anti-Russian behaviour from the United States.

The United States Department of Defence is considering a Boeing proposal to supply Ukraine with cheap, small precision bombs fitted onto abundantly available rockets.

Russia says it hopes to secure a prisoner swap with the United States to return convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, known as the "Merchant of Death", in an exchange that would likely include U.S. basketball star, Brittney Griner.

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns has held talks with Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service in the Turkish capital Ankara on the consequences of any use of nuclear weapons.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has accused the United States of plots to repeat the 2011 Arab uprisings in the Islamic Republic.

The United States and South Korea began one of their largest combined military air drills involving hundreds of warplanes from both sides. 

The United States and its allies have condemned Russia’s accusations that the U.S has military biological programs in Ukraine.

Japan is in the final stages of negotiations with Washington to procure U.S-made Tomahawk cruise missiles to reinforce its defense capabilities.