UKRAINE: Envoys from Russia and Ukraine met in Abu Dhabi today for another round of United States-brokered talks on ending the almost four year war, a Ukrainian negotiator said.

The delegations from Moscow and Kiev were joined in the United Arab Emirates by US officials, said Rustem Umerov, Ukraine’s national security and defence council chief.

UNITED STATES: The Trump administration is reducing the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota by 700 from around 3,000 after state and local officials agreed to co-operate by turning over arrested immigrants, border tsar Tom Homan said today.

This follows growing protests since the killings of Alex Prett and Renee Good by federal officers in Minneapolis.

NIGERIA: Gunmen killed at least 13 people in northern Nigeria, the police said today.

The attackers, “armed with dangerous weapons, began shooting sporadically” on Tuesday in Doma village in the Faskari area of north western Katsina state, police spokesman Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu said in a statement.

HUNGARY: A Hungarian court today sentenced a German anti-fascist activist to eight years in prison for taking part in assaults against participants of a far-right rally in February 2023.

Authorities allege the defendant, identified only as Maja T, was one of more than a dozen people who assaulted participants in an annual far-right event in Budapest known as the Day of Honour — one of the biggest neonazi rallies in Europe which marks the failed attempt by Nazi and allied Hungarian soldiers to break out of Budapest during the Red Army’s siege of the city in 1945.