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Why Trump-Putin Budapest Meet Has Been Called Off and What it Means for Ukraine War
US President Donald Trump had met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska in August. (Photo: X) Plans for a second summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been dropped. US President Donald Trump...

Donald Trump's meeting with Vladimir Putin called off as President wants to avoid 'wasted meeting'
Donald Trump's meeting with Vladimir Putin in Hungary has been called off as the American President wanted to avoid a "wasted meeting". The White House confirmed the two leaders will not meet in the "immediate future" after a phone call between...
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‘Don’t want a wasted meeting’: Trump puts Budapest summit with Putin on hold
Trump indicated that a key sticking point between him and Putin remains Russia’s refusal to stop fighting along the current front line. The White House on Tuesday announced that there are currently “no plans” for a meeting between the two leaders...
Trump’s diarrhoea video was a wonderful lesson. The president wants to befoul us
Last week, when HuffPost asked the White House who chose Hungary as the site of an upcoming meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, responded: “Your mom did.” She was obviously...

Trump says he will announce meeting with Putin in Budapest in two days
A decision on whether to hold the Russian-American summit in Budapest could come within a couple of days, US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday during a meeting with reporters at the White House, APA reports. Trump was asked to clarify the...

Trump's meeting with Putin in Budapest cancelled after phone call 'turned sour'
Donald Trump will no longer meet Vladimir Putin in Hungary after a phone call between negotiators "turned sour". An anonymous official confirmed the meeting was off after a call between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign...

Second Trump-Putin Summit In Doubt After Rubio Talks With Russian Foreign Minister
President Donald Trump’s planned second meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin appears canceled after a phone call between top U.S. and Russian officials. The White House said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a “productive call” with...

No Trump-Putin Meet In The Immediate Future, Says White House Amid Hungary Summit Buzz
Last Updated:October 21, 2025, 22:22 IST The Kremlin had earlier said that no dates were decided for the possible summit between US President Trump and his Russian counterpart Putin in Hungary. Rapid Read Summarized by AI. + + Follow usOn Google...

Evening Brief: Trump-Putin Budapest Meeting Put on Hold, Chinese Fighter Jet Releases Flares Near Australian Patrol Aircraft
Evening rundown for Tuesday, October 21, 2025. Trump-Putin Meeting in Budapest Put on Hold Amid Diplomatic Tensions Over Ukraine A planned meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest has been postponed,...

Budapest summit postponed as Putin rejects Trump’s ceasefire proposal
Just days after US President Donald Trump announced plans for a new peace summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, their proposed Budapest meeting has been thrown into doubt. Trump first shared news of the summit late last week...

Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest shelved, White House says
US President Donald Trump no longer plans to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Budapest, the White House said Tuesday. The swift cancellation of the in-person summit, just days after Trump floated it, reportedly stemmed from Moscow’s refusal to...

Hungary committed to nuclear and radiation safety, IAEA mission finds
An International Atomic Energy Agency team said the special legal status of the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority, which sees it reporting directly to Parliament, gives it a high level of effective independence. The 12-day Integrated Regulatory...

Canceled: Trump, Putin meeting in Budapest called off
President Donald Trump meets with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Oval Office, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (Official White House photo by Molly Riley) (The Center Square) – The in-person meeting between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin...

Law Enforcement Raids Former Ukrenergo CEO Kudrytskyi’s Home
Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) raided the home of Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, the former CEO of the state-owned power grid operator Ukrenergo, on Tuesday, Oct. 21, law enforcement sources confirmed to Ukrainska Pravda. Investigators are...

Democrats' shutdown question: Where's Trump?: From the Politics Desk
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, a newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today’s edition, we report on how...

Trump downplays second meeting with Putin as Budapest summit put on hold
WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump downplayed a second summit with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Tuesday just as the Budapest sit-down was put on hold amid an impasse over a long-elusive Ukraine ceasefire. "I don't want to have a...
Trump-Putin planned talks in Budapest shelved
US President Donald Trump's plan for a swift meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin is on hold in the latest twist in his stop-and-go effort to resolve the war in Ukraine. A planned summit between Mr Trump and Mr Putin was postponed...

Hungary’s “Sovereignty Protection Office” Publishes Smear Report on OCCRP
Hungary’s Sovereignty Protection Office issued a report October 14 falsely accusing OCCRP and its publisher, Drew Sullivan, of being “mercenaries of the European Commission” because of a grant that OCCRP accepted to train investigative journalists...

A Trump-Putin Budapest Summit Is Unlikely to Lead to a Breakthrough
Less than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest in the coming weeks to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine, the summit appears to be off. Trump announced the...

'State of Emergency' Prolonged in Hungary
The Hungarian parliament on Tuesday assented to prolonging the government’s state of emergency for another 180 days till May 13 next year. The justice ministry's proposal was passed with 127 votes in favour and 56 against. In its proposal, the...