Volodymyr Zelenskyy insisted on Thursday night on holding a meeting between him and Vladimir Putin to negotiate peace between Ukraine and Russia and end a war that has lasted more than four years. The Ukrainian president’s proposal is not new, but it is the first time he has done so with an open letter to the head of the Kremlin. On previous occasions, Moscow has refused, indicating that such a meeting would only be possible when there is already a firm agreement that both leaders would only have to ratify.

After Monday’s bombings of missile sites and vessels, the ceasefire, decreed a month and a half ago, was back on life support on Wednesday, very fragile. The United States directed attacks against an Iranian drone operation and a ground control base near the Strait of Hormuz, to which the Persian country claimed to have responded with an offensive against a U.S. airbase in Kuwait. All this occurred hours after President Donald Trump denied information that he was about to reach an agreement with Tehran.

An alleged suicide note attributed to financier Jeffrey Epstein has remained under judicial secrecy for almost seven years in a federal court in New York, according to the New York Times revealed this Thursday.

“No one is moving me from here,” said Keir Starmer, tying himself with a double sailor’s knot to the chair in his Downing Street office after one of the worst electoral results in Labour’s history (if not the worst), with the loss of power in Wales, half of the councilors he defended in the English local elections, and total abdication in Scotland. He admits the disaster but believes he can fix it with a couple of paracetamols, a colonoscopy, and a visit to the hygienist for a dental cleaning. Uncomfortable interventions, of course, but they are commonplace and no one dies from them.