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Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz and U.S. President Donald Trump during a summit in Egypt on Oct. 13, 2025. Credit - Evan Vucci—Getty Images

German ChancellorFriedrich Merzhas warned of "a deep rift" between Europe and the United States, arguing that the latter "will not be powerful enough to go it alone."

In his address at the Munich Security Conference Friday, Merz urged Europe and the U.S. to "repair and revive trans-Atlantic trust together" in what he referred to as an "era of great power rivalry."

Switching to English as he addressed American "friends," Merz nodded to Trump'scontentious relationship with NATO,insisting that "being a part of [the alliance] is not only Europe's competitive advantage. It's also the United States' competitive advantage."

While he acknowledged that the existing global order has long been flawed, Merz—when discussing the "under destruction" theme of this year's conference—argued the "international order based on rights and rules is currently being destroyed."

He also referenced Vice President J.D. Vance'sspeechfrom last year's conference. Vance drew ire from European leaders when he argued that what concerned him most was Europe's "threat from within... the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values—values shared with the United States of America." He used "free speech" as an example of the values in retreat.

"The culture war of the MAGA movement is not ours," Merz continued. "Freedom of speech ends here with us when that speech goes against human dignity and the constitution. We do not believe in tariffs and protectionism, but in free trade."

The German leader appeared to make further strides to distinguish Europe from the Trump Administration, adding: "We stick to climate agreements and the World Health Organization (WHO) because we are convinced that global challenges can only be solved together."

On Jan. 22, the U.S., under Trump's direction, officially pulled out of the WHO. The move has garnered muchcriticismfrom global health experts.

In response to Merz's remarks, White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly told TIME: "Friends tell friends hard truths, and the President has also been clear to our European friends that they must follow his lead by ending unfettered migration, reversing'Green New Scam' policies,and moving away from leftist ideology, or risk their own destruction."

Read More:Trump and Vance May Have Accidentally United Europe

As Europe takes part in ongoing negotiations regarding the hope for a cease-fire in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Merz said he has also started private talks with French President Emmanuel Macron about "nuclear deterrence."

Merz's concerns echo those made by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Davos in January. Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Carney argued that the old world order was "not coming back" and encouraged people not to "mourn" the way things used to be. He accused "great powers" of using economic pressure to yield results while urging middle powers to push back.

Carney's remarks were delivered shortly afterTrump threatened to tariff countrieswho oppose his campaign toannex Greenland—a threat he has since walked back. Trump laterlashed out in responseto Carney's speech.

Read More:Carney Hits Back at Trump as Relations Sour: 'Canada Doesn't Live Because of the U.S.'

The U.S. President will not be appearing at the Munich Security Conference. Instead, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will represent the U.S. on Saturday and deliver a highly-anticipated speech.

Rubio also warned of a "new era" in geopolitics as he boarded his flight to Germany.

When asked if his message to Europeans will take a softer approach than Vance's address last year, Rubio told reporters: "The world is changing very fast right in front of us. We live in a new era in geopolitics, and it's going to require all of us to sort of re-examine what that looks like and what our role is going to be."

On Friday afternoon, the U.S. Department of Stateconfirmedthat Rubio and Merz had met in Munich, after the German Chancellor's speech.

"They discussed pressing global challenges including securing supply chains, advancing efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war, and strengthening the partnership between the United States and Europe," said a spokesperson. "The Secretary expressed appreciation for Germany's strong support for Ukraine, including over $76 billion in assistance since 2022, and discussed continued coordination on reconstruction efforts."

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GENEVA (AP) — Iran and the United States will hold a second round of talks over Tehran's nuclear program next week, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said Saturday.

Iran-Nuclear Talks

Oman, which welcomed the first round ofindirect talkson Feb. 6, will host the talks in Geneva, the Swiss ministry said, without specifying which days.

After the first discussions, U.S. President Donald Trump warned Tehran that failure to reach an agreement with his administration would be "very traumatic."

Similar talks last year broke down in June as Israel launched what became a12-day war on Iranthat included theU.S. bombing Iranian nuclear sites.

Trump has repeatedly threatened to use force to compel Iran to agree to constrain its nuclear program. Iran has said it would respond with an attack of its own. Trump also has threatened Iran over itsdeadly crackdown on recent nationwide proteststhere.

Gulf Arab nations have warned any attack could spiral into another regional conflict.

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Trump said Friday the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, was being sent from the Caribbean to the Mideast to joinother military assetsthe U.S. has built up in the region. He also said a change in power in Iran "would be the best thing that could happen."

Theindirect talks on Feb. 6were between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff. The top military commander in the Middle Eastwas also presentfor the first time.

The Trump administration has maintained that Iran can have no uranium enrichment under any deal. Tehran says it won't agree to that.

Iran has insisted its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. However, its officialsincreasingly threaten to pursue a nuclear weapon. Before the June war, Iran had been enriching uranium up to 60% purity, a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said his nation is "ready for any kind of verification." However, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has been unable for months to inspect and verify Iran's nuclear stockpile.

Trump has suggested in recent weeks that his top priority is for Iran to scale back its nuclear program. Iran has said it wants talks to focus solely on the nuclear program.

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who met with Trump in Washington this week, has pressed for any deal to include steps to neutralizeIran's ballistic missile programand end its funding for proxy groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

Thedeadly mass shootingat a school in British Columbia came as Canadian authorities face significant obstacles in rolling out a nationwide firearms buyback that is mired in practical and logistical complications.

Canada already hasfar stronger gun lawsthan the United States, and mass shootings are extremely rare. The government brought forward major reforms and bans on assault-style weapons after the country suffered its worst-ever shooting attack in 2020, when a man impersonating a police officer killed 22 people in northern Nova Scotia.

In January, Canada began implementing one of those reforms: a long-awaited, hotly debated program to compensate the country's gun owners for their now-banned firearms. Yet the buyback program has suffered yearslong delays and pushback from police, provincial officials and gun owners.

In September, audio emerged of Canada's Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree, the official responsible for implementing the legislation,questioningthe ability of police departments to enforce the buyback. Anandasangaree later said the recording was made without his knowledge, and said the comments were "misguided."

Under a framework unveiled last month, Canadians who own any of the2,500 prohibited makes and modelsof assault-style weapons have until March 31 to sign up to turn in their guns and possibly receive money in return.

If they sign up after that date, gun owners won't be compensated – but they'll still have to give up their guns or permanently decommission them by October 30, 2026, or risk criminal liability for the illegal possession of a prohibited firearm.

A 'vibrant gun culture'

Complicating the buyback is the fact that Canada has plenty of guns, more than the program alone can collect. The federal government estimates that it has the funds tobuy 136,000firearms, but Canada has roughly 2 million registered and 10 million unregistered guns, according to a 2017 release from the Small Arms Survey, an independent research group based in Switzerland.

"Canada actually has a fairly high rate of civilian gun ownership compared to any other advanced democracy," said Blake Brown, a gun control expert and professor at St. Mary's University in Nova Scotia.

Brown said the buyback has proceeded "very slowly," in some cases due to opposition from gun owners, despite overall support for gun control among Canadians.

"Based on polling, there's almost always very strong support for greater gun control," Brown said. "But it is a political issue. The Conservative Party of Canada has, in its current form, aligned itself with a lot of the positions of gun owners in the country."

One of those gun owners is Rod Giltaca, the CEO of the Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights, a group thatbills itselfas "Canada's Gun Lobby." Giltaca told CNN that while he strongly supports Canada's strict licensing regulations, he thinks the buyback goes too far.

"We are not anti-regulation," Giltaca said. "We just want to make sure that those regulations have a demonstrable effect on public safety, and if they're just there to punish law abiding gunowners, then they should be withdrawn."

"There's a vibrant gun culture in Canada," Giltaca continued. "And as long as that isn't interrupted for frivolous political reasons, I'm in favor of regulation."

'They've had six years'

The buyback has also been met with friction in western Canada. The province ofAlbertahas said itwon't participatein the buyback and barred its police forces from taking part. Saskatchewan and Manitoba have also said they won't participate.

"We've made it clear from the beginning," said Teri Bryant, Alberta's Chief Firearms Officer, who spoke to CNN from the sidelines of a weekend gun show.

"We weren't gonna participate in this scheme," Bryant said. "And they've had six years: if they really thought this was so important, they would have set up some kind of a mechanism."

In a statement to CNN, the Ministry of Public Safety said that in the absence of provincial approval and police cooperation, the federal government will be sending "mobile collection units" (MCUs) to retrieve prohibited firearms from their owners.

"The decision of local police forces to not administer the collection of firearms will not prevent the federal government from collecting them through these MCUs," said spokesperson Simon Lafortune.

But Bryant said she doesn't know how those MCUs will operate in Alberta.

"Those mobile collection units would need a seizure agent license from us," Bryant said. "They haven't applied for one."

Guns from south of the border

Elsewhere in the country, some police departments are still debating whether to join the buyback or not, and some have said outright that they will not participate.

Four days after the shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Kingston, Ontario's police departmentannouncedthat the mid-sized city would not collect or store prohibited guns for the program, citing an October recommendation from the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP).

José Couto, the spokesperson for the OACP, told CNN police in Canada are most concerned about firearms that aren't owned by licensed Canadian gun owners, usually guns that come over the US border illegally.

That includes some of the firearms used in the 2020 mass shooting that pushed Canada's government to adopt the buyback.Three of the gunsused in the rampage were smuggled illegally from Maine. The shooter also illegally owned another gun he used, a model of rifle now banned and subject to the buyback law.

In a statement to CNN, Lafortune of the Ministry of Public Safety said the buyback "is only one part of our government's wide ranging, comprehensive approach to combatting crime across Canada and ensuring the safety and security of all Canadians," pointing to other legislation put forward by the Liberal government to eliminate gun smuggling and tighten bail laws.

"Our priority is keeping communities safe by removing assault-style firearms from circulation, cracking down on gun smuggling at the border, and investing in the police and community programs that prevent gun crime in the first place," Lafortune said.

But some experts on gun violence are still wary of endorsing the program. Jooyoung Lee, a sociologist at the University of Toronto, told CNN that previousbuyback schemes in other countrieshave had "minimal or no effect on violent crime rates."

"I can understand the reluctance of police to enforce this stuff," said Lee. "It's very evocative because people see all these guns (collected) and the assumption is, 'okay, now there are this many fewer guns on the streets.' So why aren't we all safer?"

"The problem is a social network problem," Lee continued. "The people who are participating in these programs are very unlikely to be the ones who are submitting or channeling guns into underground networks and into the hands of people who are committing crimes."

Studies haveshown, however, that buybacks account for significant declines in mass shootings. That's a point stressed by Wendy Cukier, president of the Coalition for Gun Control. Cukier has advocated for stricter gun laws in Canada since the 1989 massacre at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.

She told CNN that the buyback isn't meant to be a cure-all for criminal gun use in Canada, but rather to deter mass shootings like the one in Tumbler Ridge.

"The buyback is aimed to address a very specific issue," Cukier said, "which is that Canadians do not feel civilians should have access to semi-automatic military-style firearms, period."

As for the effect on legal gun owners, Cukier pointed tostatisticsthat show around half of firearms used in homicides in Canada had been obtained legally, at least initially.

"Our basic position is always that no legislation can prevent all tragedies," Cukier said. "It's really about risk management. Countries that have stronger gun laws tend to have fewer of these incidents and lower rates of gun homicide, at least if you look at industrialized countries."

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• Ukrainian freestyle skier Kateryna Kotsar got engaged after qualifying for the women's big air final in Livigno, Italy on Valentine's Day

• Kotsar said it was "so cute" that her now-fiancé Bohdan Fashtryha was "so nervous" to pop the question after her race

• Kotsar said she's "still excited and can't understand what happened tonight, because it's two really huge things for me"

Love is in the air at theWinter Olympics!

Ukrainian freestyle skierKateryna Kotsarhad a Valentine's Day surprise waiting for her at the finish line after she qualified for the big air final in Livigno, Italy on Saturday, Feb. 14, when her now-fiancé Bohdan Fashtryha popped the question in front of her friends, family and fans.

Kotsar, 25, with her skis still on, said "yes" as Fashtryha got down on one knee at Livigno Snow Park, just days after American gold medalistBreezy Johnson said "yes" to her now-fiancéConnor Watkins at the Olympic finish line in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

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After the romantic Valentine's Day proposal, Kotsar told reporters her fiancé was "so nervous" during the big moment. "He said in Ukrainian if I want to marry him, nothing else. He didn't have enough time, and he was nervous. It was so cute."

Kotsar said she's "still excited and can't understand what happened tonight, because it's two really huge things for me," referring to her engagement and qualifying for the Olympic final.

"Usually I have some feelings that something great will happen," she continued. "Today I had the feeling, but I thought it was about [making the] finals."

Speaking about her qualifying run, Kotsar revealed that she "had a bad feeling" and "felt sick" the day before, but on the day of the race, her "biggest goal was to compete and make clean runs."

"Now, I am full of energy," she said after her big day, adding that she "dreamed about" making the final. "I cannot say that I expected it, because when I expect finals, usually it's so sad to not compete in finals. So I try to not expect this, and I didn't expect this tonight."

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Kotsar had her parents in the stands for her qualifier, and told reporters it was "the first time ever they saw my jumps in real life," explaining that "usually" her mom gets "too nervous" to watch.

"She just waits for my call after competition, when I say, 'everything is okay, I didn't crash, feeling okay.' "

After the run, Kotsarshareda handful of photos of her parents watching her compete and of their emotional embrace after she qualified.

The women's big air final will take place on Feb. 16 at the Livigno Snow Park.

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MILAN (AP) —Jordan Stolzis so preternaturally calm and apparently impervious to nerves that thetwo-time Olympic gold medalist'scoach, Bob Corby, does occasionally wonder whether his star speedskating pupil might be a little too relaxed.

One example: Before Stolz was due to compete in the 500 meters at theMilan Cortina Games, Corby found him laying down in the athletes' lounge, not a care in the world, as race time was getting closer.

"I'm like, 'OK, OK. Are we going to warm up? Are we going to warm up?' Finally, I shook him," Corby recounted Saturday following Stolz's victory in the 500 that came on top of anearlier win in the 1,000at these Olympics. "And he goes, 'Oh, yeah.' Looks at his watch. 'I still have 45 seconds until my alarm goes off.'"

A smiling Corby explained: "That's just normal behavior for him. One of the other coaches asked me one time: 'So do things bother him?'"

Sure doesn't seem so on the ice.

As long as Stolz is healthy, the 21-year-old from Wisconsin tends to be finish first, no matter the setting or circumstances. His first career Olympic golds — making him only the second man, along withEric Heiden at Lake Placidin 1980, to complete the 500-1,000 double at one Winter Games —had been anticipated, if not downright expected, by many before competition began in Milan.

He holds the world record in the 1,000 and is unbeaten in that event this season. He won five of nine World Cup 500s this season. He is a two-time world champion in both of those events, plus the 1,500, which is coming up Thursday.

And then Stolz will race in the mass start on Feb. 21, his fourth, and last, event.

Does he ever have a case of he jitters?

"Oh, yeah. For sure," Stolz said. "Before the 1,000, I was feeling nervous, just because it was the first one and it's, like, the Olympics, right? And it's super important. "Even just watching (others racethe 5,000 last weekend) made me a little bit nervous, because you've waited four years to get here and now you only have one chance to win. And I've been winning all the 1,000s, I don't know for how long, and I thought, 'I really don't want to lose this one.'"

That triumph meant the pressure receded for the 500.

"I felt a lot less pressure today, just because I got the first one out of the way," Stolz said Saturday. "And I thought this one's, like, not worth stressing over, because it's going to be a toss-up, either way."

He used a good start and his usual finishing verve to get past Jenning de Boo of the Netherlands in their head-to-head heat at the sport's shortest distance. On Wednesday, in the 1,000, Stolz also shared the ice with de Boo in a heat and also came through at the end, that time after trailing with 400 meters to go.

Corby called the 500 performance the best of Stolz's career.

"I would agree with that," Stolz said. "I didn't feel too many difficulties in it."

Well, then.

"He loves training. He loves racing. He does not get that anxious and nervous when he's out there," Heiden said. "I don't know if he really is concerned about what everybody else is doing. He's more concerned about: Is he going to perform up to his expectations?"

Stolz's father, Dirk, said he and Jordan spoke on the phone at about midnight on Friday night.

Listening to "the tone of his voice," Dirk Stolz said, made him realize Jordan was not tense. He was confident.

"You see some athletes, just mentally — they might be physically all there, but all of a sudden, the pressure comes in and it affects their performance, and I don't see it with Jordan a whole lot. He's pretty relaxed," Dirk Stolz said. "At the end of the day, it's another race at another place, really, with different scenery, right? That's how you got to look at it."

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This week, for the first time at the Olympics, skiers will scamper uphill wearing carpet-like skins on their skis or just their stiff boots, then barrel back down an ungroomed course.

This is ski mountaineering — or skimo — the newest Olympic event. It's a brutal high-altitude sport.

"I think they are the athletes who have the highest pain threshold and can really suffer," Dr. Volker Schöffl, the physician for the German ski mountaineering team, said in an interview. "They sprint, they run and then, you know, gradually everybody is dying around you until one man is standing and finishing first."

Three skimo events will be held in Bormio, Italy, starting Thursday: men's sprint, women's sprint and a mixed relay with a competitor of each gender. The United States will compete in the relay but not the sprints.

The sprint events last about three minutes, while the mixed relay usually takes a little over a half-hour. The relay starts with a section of skinning — essentially racing uphill with a free heel and climbing skins glued to the skis. Then the athletes rip off the skins and ski a short downhill portion before returning to climbing, this time with a combination of skinning and bootpacking (dashing uphill in their ski boots, with skis secured to a backpack). Finally, they descend to the base of the hill.

The sprint course is about half as long as that of the relay, where one lap is about 1,500 meters, or nearly a mile. The relay pairs complete four laps, with women taking the first leg and the team members alternating from there. Eighteen relay teams will compete.

"It's really a distance that pushes the body to its physical capacities — so being able to push as hard as you can but not tipping over that edge," said Sarah Cookler, the head of sport for the U.S. Ski Mountaineering Association.

It also takes focus to transition between travel modes efficiently while racing.

"If you have pushed your body into this lactic state where your hands are cramping and you have tunnel vision, it makes it very hard to maneuver and do all of those really specific fine motor skills … not to mention then having the skill to race down," Cookler said.

During the racers' descent, viewers are unlikely to see elegant or powerful turns because the competitors use featherweight gear that offers less control.

"You might look at these skiers and be like, 'Oh, my God, they can't ski," Cookler said, adding that some athletes adopt a leaned-back stance that few Alpine ski instructors would recommend. "It's because of the gear."

Although skimo is new to modern audiences, it harkens back to the earliest days of skiing, when ancient travelers strapped their feet to two planks of wood and sometimes used animal skins for a better grip while moving uphill.

"Skimo is a really old sport. Much like Nordic skiing, it stems all the way back from when mountain people just needed an efficient way to travel," said Christina Volken, a former USA Skimo competitor who lives in Washington.

In fact, skis predate the wheel. Theoldest fragments of skis date back to 6700 B.C.There's also evidence that ancient snow travelers used climbing skins — animal skins fixed to the underside of the skis — for uphill travel.

In an Olympic context, the sport bears some resemblance to an event called military patrol that was held in the1924 games in Chamonix, the first Winter Olympics. That four-man ski race is considered a precursor to both biathlon and ski mountaineering: Competitors crossed nearly 20 miles of Alpine terrain, with a round of target shooting at the finish.

Representing the U.S. in the skimo relay are Anna Gibson and Cam Smith. Smith, a veteran skimo racer, has been competing for about a decade, whereas Gibson is newer to the sport. A professional trailrunner, Gibson ran track in college and grew up skiing in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

The U.S. has been playing catchup in skimo against some of the mountainous European countries. While backcountry skiing is popular in the U.S., skimo racing caught on later.

"It's been this sort of grassroots thing, where people were volunteering to coach," Volken said. "We haven't had the funding."

In the lead-up to the Olympics — and on the wings of a donation from tech entrepreneur Michael Paulus — USA Skimo hired Cookler and an Italian coach with experience in World Cup skimo races.

"It was kind of a last-minute ditch effort to get there, but we made significant improvements from last year," Cookler said. "Being able to make it to the Olympics was the No. 1 goal."

There is more to skimo than what the Olympics will show, however. Organizers have chosen to feature some of the shortest, safest and most accessible forms of the sport.

By contrast, in longer endurance races like thePatrouille Des Glaciers, teams of three travel roughly 35 miles over steep, complicated, avalanche-prone terrain. Those competitors carry gear such as avalanche transceivers, crampons, ice axes and climbing ropes. The Olympic racers, however, won't have much in their backpacks — just balloons or puffy jackets to give the bag enough structure to carry skis.

Cookler said she hopes this year's events make enough of a splash that organizers of future Winter Games will add longer skimo races with more technical climbing.

"This is just the foot in the door," she said.

A Ukrainian drone strike ignited fires at one of Russia's Black Sea ports, officials said Sunday, ahead of fresh talks aimed at ending the nearly 4-year-old war.

Two people were wounded in the attack on the port of Taman in the Krasnodar region, which damaged an oil storage tank, warehouse and terminals, according to regional Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev.

Meanwhile, falling debris from Russian drones damaged civilian and transport infrastructure in Ukraine's Odesa region, officials said, causing disruption to the power and water supply.

Ukraine's long-range drone strikeson Russian energy sites aim to deprive Moscow of theoil export revenueit needs to pursue its full-scale invasion. Russia wants tocripple the Ukrainian power grid, seeking to deny civilians access to heat, light and running water in what Kyiv officials say is an attempt to "weaponize winter."

The attacks came ahead of another round ofU.S.-brokered talksbetween envoys from Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday and Wednesday in Geneva, just before the fourth anniversary of theall-out Russian invasion of its neighboron Feb. 22.

Speaking at theMunich Security Conferencein Germany on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested there were still questions remaining overfuture security guaranteesfor his country. Zelenskyy also questioned how the concept of a free trade zone — proposed by the U.S. — would work in the Donbas region, which Russia insists Kyiv must give up for peace.

He said the Americans want peace as quickly as possible and that the U.S. team wants to sign all the agreements on Ukraine at the same time, whereas Ukraine wants guarantees for the country's future security signed first.

Zelenskyy's concerns were echoed by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a ranking member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

"Unless we have real security guarantees on whatever peace agreement is ultimately determined, we are going to be here again, because one of the things we know is that Russia has geared up not just for Ukraine, but to go beyond Ukraine," she told reporters in Munich on Sunday.

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Russia was hoping to win diplomatically what it had failed to achieve on the battlefield, and was banking on the U.S. to deliver concessions at the negotiating table. But Kallas told the Munich conference Sunday that key Russian demands — including the lifting of sanctions and unfreezing of assets — were decisions for Europe.

"If we want a sustainable peace then we need concessions also from the Russian side," she said.

Previous U.S.-led efforts to find consensus on ending the war, most recentlytwo rounds of talks in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, have failed to resolve difficult issues, such as the future of Ukraine's Donbas industrial heartland that is largely occupied by Russian forces.

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