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Businessman and former senior White House adviser under Donald Trump; son-in-law of Trump, he remains involved in Middle East diplomacy and investment deals.
Serbia's president Vučić personally pushed to strip a Belgrade landmark's protection for a $500m Trump-family tower, the Guardian reports. Senior officials face abuse-of-office charges, but the indictment omits his meeting and the hearing falls after the 25 October election.
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Trump's envoys told Kyiv on Oct 9 that a Russian diesel deal of more than 2.25 million barrels is meant to restart three-way talks, Reuters reported. A person close to the Kremlin said Putin returns only after taking the last 11% of Donbas.
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House Democrats are demanding records on Kushner's Affinity Partners and on the Justice Department's settlement of Trump's $10bn lawsuit against the IRS. For companies tied to the Trump family, the letters preview what a Democratic majority would try to compel.
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The strongest thing to come out of Witkoff and Kushner's three hours with Putin was 72 hours of quiet over two city limits, which is thin material for anyone pricing an end to a war that has run more than four and a half years.
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The Qatar Investment Authority's new partnership with JPMorgan's asset management arm begins with a $15 billion public equities mandate, announced in the same week Qatar's Emir told the UN that the Gulf is in one of its most dangerous phases.
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Both published accounts of the call trace the agreement to meet in New York back to Zelenskyy himself, and one of the two also has him thanking Trump for the sanctions on Russia's energy sector.
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Albanian activists documenting three months of protests lost Instagram accounts to copyright complaints. More than 30 members of the European Parliament want Brussels to examine whether Meta breached the Digital Services Act.
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Tehran says any country backing Monday's sanctions is committing an act of war. Its price for reopening the strait is three things only the US can do, which makes duration the exposure to size.
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Trump's outside adviser is building a working channel to the man who would be speaker. The Speaker who holds the job now says do not bet against House Republicans.
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The broadcaster wants documents and sworn testimony from three Trump family members over a January 6 speech edit, with trial provisionally set for February. That is a merits posture, not a settlement one.
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