
UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelensky said today that a framework economic deal with the United States is now ready for signing.
But Mr Zelensky said there was still no settlement over the security guarantees that Kiev wants from the US.
Mr Zelensky is due in Washington DC on Friday for what are being described as wide-ranging substantive talks with US President Donald Trump.

ROGER McKENZIE reports on the west African country, under its new anti-imperialist government, taking up the case for compensation for colonial-era massacres

For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE